Industrial Affiliates Annual Conference

Friday, February 24, 2012

9:00am to 4:30pm

Physics and Astrophysics Room 102/103

The Conference is now earlier in the Academic Year! Please join us for the day
and these 12 presentations, each approximately 25 minutes long, that will survey new results and techniques and explore their impact on current and anticipated future problems.

Conference Program

9:00am   Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Wing Wong, Statistics Department Chair
• Trevor Hastie, Industrial Affiliates Co-Director

9:15am   Session 1   Chair: Art Owen

• Luo Lu, doctoral student
• "Sequential binary partition --- A new method for density estimation"
• Eytan Bakshy and Roger Chen, Facebook
• Yi Liu, doctoral student
• "Determining number of changes in segmented line regression"

10:30am   Coffee Break

11:00am   Session 2   Chair: Trevor Hastie

• Amir Najmi, Google
• Noah Simon, doctoral student
• "The Sparse-Group Lasso and structured learning:
  Sometimes less is more"
• Krishna Venkatraman, Intuit

12:15pm   Lunch

1:15pm   Session 3   Chair: Guenther Walther

• Nelson Ray, doctoral student
• "Two-sample kernel-based tests"
• Su Chen and Calvin Hubble, Two Sigma
• Victor Hu, doctoral student
• "Quantifying effects for search features on user's rate of return"

2:30pm   Coffee Break

3:00pm   Session 4   Chair: John Chambers

• Jean Bolot, Technicolor
• Olivia Yueh-Wen Liao, doctoral student
• "Biomarker-based adaptive accrual design"
• Sam Wong, CASH Dynamic Opportunities Investment

4:15pm   Closing Remarks: Trevor Hastie