Conference Schedule

PDF file of the Conference Program and Book of Abstracts (PDF).

Tuesday, July 5

Room: DC 1302

  • 8:50 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.

Opening remarks

IS1: Advances on robust high-dimensional regression and prediction

Session Chair: Peter Rousseeuw | KU Leuven, Belgium (IP)

  • 9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.

Robustness penalization, and prediction

Elvezio Ronchetti | University of Geneva, Switzerland (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS1-1.


  • 9:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Robust regression with covariate filtering

Po-Ling Loh | University of Cambridge, UK (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS1-2.


  • 10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.

Robust multinomial regression in high dimensions

Peter Filzmoser | TU Wien, Austria (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS1-3

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Break 

  • 10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


Keynote 1

Moderator: Ruodu Wang | University of Waterloo (IP)

  • 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 

From robust risk measurement to evidence-based communication

Paul Embrechts   |   ETH Zurich, Switzerland (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from Keynote-1

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Lunch Break 

  • 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. 

Lunch will be served in DC 1302.


IS2: Advances on robust functional and nonparametric regression

Session Chair: Shoja Chenouri | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

  • 1:30 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Robust estimators for nonparametric generalized linear models

Stefan Van Alest | KU Leuven, Belgium (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS2-1


  • 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 p.M.

Scalable robust estimators for non-parametric regression models

Matias Salibian-Barrera | University of British Columbia, Canada (V)

Recording from IS2-2


  • 2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Robust estimators in functional quadratic regression

Graciela Boente | Universided de Buenos Aires, Argentina (V)

Recording from IS2-3

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Break 

  • 3:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


IS3: Robust scatter matrix estimation and outlier detection

Session Chair: Matias Salibian-Barrera | University of British Columbia (V)

  • 3:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Outlier detection in non-elliptical data by kernel MRCD

Mia Hubert | KU Leuven, Belgium (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS3-1
 

*Due to audio difficulties this talk is incomplete.


  • 4:00 P.M. - 4:30 p.M.

On the usage of joint diagonalization in multivariate statistics

Klaus Nordhausen | University of Jyväskylä, Finland (V)

Recording from IS2-2


  • 4:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Robustness properties of regularized M-estimators of scatter

David Tyler | Rutgers, USA (V)

Recording from IS3-3

Wednesday, July 6

CS1: Extremile regression, risk measures and empirical likelihood

Session Chair: David Kepplinger | George Mason University, USA(IP)

Recording from CS1

  • 7:30 A.M. - 7:45 A.M.

Extremile Regression

Abdelaati Daouia | Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont, France(V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 7:45 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.

Extreme expectile estimation in heavy-tailed regression models

Yasser Abbas | Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont, France(V)


  • 8:00 A.M. - 8:15 A.M.

Estimation of risk measures under measurement errors

Jana Jurečková | Charles University and Academy of Sciences, Prague(V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 8:15 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.

Empirical likelihood for smoothly trimmed mean

Janis Valeinis | University of Latvia, Lativa(V)


  • 8:30 A.M. - 8:45 A.M.

Robust Estimation and Inference for Joint Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression in High-dimensional Settings

Shushu Zhang | University of Michigan, USA (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from CS1


 

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Break 

  • 8:45 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


IS4: Advances on robust change point analysis

Session Chair: Shoja Chenouri | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

  • 9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.

Robust Narrowest Significance Pursuit: inference for multiple change-points in the median

Piotr Fryzlewicz | The London School of Economics, UK (V)

Recording from IS4-1


  • 9:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Graphical influence diagnostics for changepoint models

Rebecca Killick | Lancaster University, UK (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS4-2


  • 10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.

Adversarially robust change point detection

Yi Yu | Warwick, UK (V)

Recording from IS4-3

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Break 

  • 10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


Keynote 2

Moderator: Shoja Chenouri | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

  • 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 

Predictability, stability, and causality with a case study to find genetic drivers of a heart disease

Bin Yu   |   University of California, Berkeley, USA

Slides (PDF)

Recording from Keynote-2

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Lunch Break 

  • 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. 

Lunch will be served in DC 1302.


CS2: Robust multivariate and functional data analysis

Session Chair: David Kepplinger | George Mason University, USA(IP)

Recording from CS2

  • 1:30 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.

Multivariate functional outlier detection using invariant component Selection

Aurore Archimbaud | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands(V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 1:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Robust mean and eigenvalues regularized covariance matrix estimation

Wenyu Cheng | London School of Economics, UK(V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M.

Robustness and initialization issues in subspace clustering

Luis A. García-Escudero | University of Valladolid, Spain(IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:15 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.

Outlier explanation using shapley values and Mahalanobis distances

Marcus Mayrhofer | TU Wien, Austria(IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:30 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.

Identifying periods of careless responding in surveys: a deep learning approach

Max Welz | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Measurement system assessment for multivariate and functional data

Banafsheh Lashkari | University of Waterloo, Canada(IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 3:00 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.

Estimation of risk measures under measurement errors (rescheduled)

Jana Jurečková | Charles University and Academy of Sciences, Prague(V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from CS2

Thursday, July 7

CS3: Methods for robust regression and multivariate estimation

Session Chair: Luis A. García-Escudero | University of Valladolid, Spain(IP)

Recording from CS3

  • 7:30 A.M. - 7:45 A.M.

Bias-corrected robust estimation of dynamic panel data models

Pavel Cizek | Tilburg University, Netherlands (V)


  • 7:45 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.

An improved estimation procedure for robust PARAFAC model fitting

Valentin Todorov | The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Austria (V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 8:00 A.M. - 8:15 A.M.

Robust Method of Threshold Truncated and Censored Moments

Chudamani Poudyal | University of Central Florida, USA (V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 8:15 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.

Least Trimmed Squares Asymptotics

Bent Nielsen | University of Oxford, UK(V)


  • 8:30 A.M. - 8:45 A.M.

Regularized halfspace depth for functional data

Hyemin Yeon | Iowa State University, USA (V)

Slides (PDF)

 
  • 8:45 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.

Covariate adjustment method based on generalized empirical likelihood and trimmed means

Mara Delesa-Velina | University of Latvia, Lativa(V)

Recording from CS3

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IS5: Robust classification and clustering

Session Chair: Peter Filzmoser | TU Wien (IP)

  • 9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.

Visualizing classification results

Peter Rousseeuw | KU Leuven, Belgium (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS5-1


  • 9:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Robust model-based clustering

Victor Yohai | Universided de Buenos Aires, Argentina (V)

Recording from IS5-2


  • 10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.

Regularized K-means through hard-thresholding

Jakob Raymaekers | Maastricht University, Netherlands (V)

Recording from IS5-3

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Break 

  • 10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


Keynote 3

Moderator: Shoja Chenouri | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

  • 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. 

Two Cultures, Two Mindsets

David Donoho | Stanford, USA (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from Keynote-3

* This recording includes a message on ICORS 2023, provided by Anne Ruiz-Gazen | Toulouse School of Economics, France

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Lunch Break 

  • 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. 

Lunch will be served in DC 1302.


IS6: Advances on outlier detection, robust inference

Session Chair: Matias Salibian-Barrera | University of British Columbia, Canada (V)

  • 1:30 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Statistical distances and their role in robustness

Marianthi Markatou | University at Buffalo, USA (V)

Recording from IS6-1


  • 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.

Inference under weak identifiability

Davy Paindaveine | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS6-2


  • 2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Outlier detection for compositional data using Invariant Coordinate System

Anne Ruiz-Gazen | Toulouse School of Economics, France (V)

Recording from IS6-3

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Break 

  • 3:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


IS7: Robustness and differential privacy

Session Chair: Gautam Kamath | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

  • 3:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.

On robustness and local differential privacy

Thomas Berrett | Warwick, UK (V)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS7-1


  • 4:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Differentially private inference via noisy optimization and M-estimators

Marco Avella | Columbia, USA (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS7-2


  • 4:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Differentially private medians and data depth

Kelly Ramsay | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Slides (PDF)

Recording from IS7-3

Friday, July 8

IS8: Tuning parameter selection for robust estimators

Session Chair: Peter Filzmoser | TU Wien (IP)

Recording from IS8

  • 9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.

Hyper-parameter selection for robust estimators

David Kepplinger | George Mason University, USA (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 9:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Convolution-type smoothing approach for quantile regression

Kean Ming Tan | University of Michigan, USA (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.

Skewed pivot-adaptive modeling with applications to semicontinuous outcomes

Yiyuan She | Florida State University, USA (V)

Recording from IS8

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Break 

  • 10:30 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


IS9: High-dimensional robustness: statistical and computational efficiency

Moderator: Shoja Chenouri | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Recording from IS9

  • 11:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. 

Robust estimation of a mean vector with respect to any norm: a minimax MOM and a Stahel-Donoho median of means estimators

Guillaume Lecué | CREST, France (V)


  • 11:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

U-statistics of growing order and their applications to robust estimators

Stanislav Minsker | University of Southern California, USA (V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 12:00 P.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Robust Estimation for Random Graphs

Gautam Kamath | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Slides (PPT)

Recording from IS9

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Lunch Break 

  • 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. 

Lunch will be served in DC 1302.


IS10: Advances in model-free estimation and inference

Session Chair: Adam Kolkiewicz  | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Recording from IS10

  • 1:30 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

The Hurst roughness exponent and its model-free estimation

Alexander Schied | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.

Controlling false discovery rate and false coverage rate with e-values

Ruodu Wang | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 2:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Robust risk assessment for portfolio credit risk

Anand Vidyashankar | George Mason University, USA (IP)

Recording from IS10

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Break 

  • 3:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. 

Light food and coffee will be provided.


CS4: Robust change point analysis and regression

Session Chair: Kelly Ramsay | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Recording from CS4

  • 3:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.

Robust multiple change point detection via binary segmentation and rank-CUSUM statistics

Ahmad Mozaffari | University of Waterloo, Canada (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 3:45 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Robust inference for change points in piecewise polynomials using confidence sets

Shakeel Gavioli-Akilagun | London School of Economics, UK (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 4:00 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.

Outlier Robust Inference in the Instrumental Variable Model With Applications to Causal Effects

Jens Klooster | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (IP)

Slides (PDF)


  • 4:15 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Robust estimation in sparse regression models with autoregressive error terms

Yetkin Tuaç | Ankara University, Turkey (V)

Slides (PDF)


  • 4:30 P.M. - 4:45 P.M.

Nonparametric bootstrapping of likelihood ratio test for quantile regression under model miss-specification

Ziwei Jin | Dalhousie University, Canada (V)

Slides (PDF)

 

Recording from CS4

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Closing Remarks

  • 4:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.