Student Seminar Series

The Student Seminar Series is a student-operated platform where graduate students can present their research to their peers and practice their presentation skills and faculty have an opportunity to present their research to a student audience. The organizers, Minzee Kim (mz2kim@uwaterloo.ca) and Xiyue Han (xiyue.han@uwaterloo.ca), welcome inquiries from any interested students and faculty.

For any inquires, please email the organizers

Seminars listed as To Be Announced (TBA) will be updated as their title and abstracts become available.   

Upcoming seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

March 7, 2024

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Zachary Van Oosten
PhD candidate in Actuarial Science

Partially Law-Invariant Risk Measures

March 14, 2024

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Jie Jian
PhD candidate in Statistics

Survival in networks: Cox model with latent blocks

Past seminars

Spring 2020 seminars:

Date  Speaker  Title

July 29, 2020

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Chris Salahub
PhD student in Statistics

A statistician's introduction to genomics

August 5, 2020

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Carlos Araiza Iturria
PhD student in Actuarial Science
Discrimination-aware decisions in finance and insurance

August 12, 2020

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Rui Qiao
PhD student in Statistics

A statistician's introduction to proteomics

August 19, 2020

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Samuel Wong
Assistant Professor

Assessing the Impacts of Mutations to the Structure of COVID-19 Spike Protein via Sequential Monte Carlo

Fall 2020 seminars:

Date Speaker Title

October 7, 2020

Start 3:00 pm

Location:Online

Lu Cheng
PhD student in Statistics

First-Order Correction of Statistical Significance for Screening Two-Way Epistatic Interactions

October 21, 2020

Start: 3:00 pm

Location: Online

José Luis Avilez Escribens
MMath student in Statistics

Is the integral the most important object in all of mathematics?

October 28, 2020

Start: 3:00 pm

Location: Online

Kelly Ramsay
PhD student in Statistics

Introduction to Differential Privacy

November 4, 2020

Start: 3:00 pm

Location: Online

Lucy Gao
Assistant Professor

Beyond sample-splitting: valid inference while “double-dipping”

November 18, 2020

Start: 3:00 pm

Location: Online

Trang Bui
PhD student in Statistics

Introduction to Experimental Design on Networks

November 25, 2020

Start: 3:00 pm

Location: Online

Glen McGee
Assistant Professor

Bayesian Multiple Index Models for Multi-Pollutant Mixtures

Winter 2021 seminars:

Date Speaker Title

January 20, 2021

Start: 4:00 pm   

Location: Online     

Chi-Kuang Yeh
PhD student in Statistics

Evaluating the performance of continuously updated probabilistic forecasts with application to National Basketball Association outcome prediction.

February 3, 2021

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Gracia Dong
PhD student in Statistics

Halton sequences and negative dependence

March 10, 2021

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Nathanial Stevens
Assistant Professor

Design and Analysis of Confirmation Experiments

March 17, 2021

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Nam-Hwui Kim
PhD student in Statistics

Finding a regularized common projection in model-based clustering (...or so I thought)

March 24, 2021

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online                                                           

Hongda Hu
PhD student in Actuarial Science                                                                       

Comparison between Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall 

Spring 2021 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

May 19, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Chris Salahub
PhD student in Statistics

How not to decompose a matrix 

May 26, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Xiyue Han
PhD student in Actuarial Science

The Hurst roughness exponent and its model-free estimation

June 16, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Grace Tompkins
PhD student in Biostatistics

Facilitating Shared Decision Making for Medical Treatments Through Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM)

June 23, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Wenling Zhang
PhD student in Statistics

Causal Inference with Marginal Structural Models

June 30, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Dylan Spicker
PhD student in Statistics

The Harms of Historical Hyperbole

July 7, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Nam-Hwui Kim
PhD student in Statistics

Why would I need this again?

July 14, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Peijun Sang
Assistant Professor

A reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework for functional classification

July 21, 2021

Start: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Marzieh Mussavi Rizi
PhD student in Biostatistics

Are Behaviors Contagious?

Fall 2021 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

October 20, 2021

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Jason Hou-Liu
PhD student in Statistics

Finding Additional Structure in Gaussian Mixture Models

November 10, 2021

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Hongda Hu
PhD student in Actuarial Science

Risk-aware multiarmed bandit algorithm

November 17, 2021

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Mu Zhu
Professor

The statistical view of data science through an example

December 1, 2021

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Marzieh Mussavi Rizi
PhD student in Biostatistics

Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Interference

December 8, 2021

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Jie Jian
PhD student in Statistics

Estimating Time-varying Brain Connectivity

Winter 2022 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

February 28, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Zijia Wang
PhD student in Actuarial Science

Bridging the first and last passage times for Lévy insurance models

March 28, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Lan Wen
Assistant Professor

Multiply robust estimators for causal effects of grace period treatment initiation strategies

April 4, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: Online

Alexander Sharp
PhD student in Statistics

Characterizing the Asymptotic Properties of SEMmax Parameter Estimation

Spring 2022 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

May 3, 2022

Start: 10:00 am

Location: Online

Eric Hou
PhD student in Statistics

Sequential Monte Carlo for Applications in Structural Biology and Financial Time Series

May 10, 2022

Start: 10:00 am

Location: Online

Chris Salahub
PhD student in Statistics

Mapping My Dad's Peaks: An Introduction to Web Scraping and Regex

June 7, 2022

Start: 10:00 am

Location: Online

Alex Stringer
Assistant Professor

Approximate Marginal Likelihood Inference for Cluster-Dependent Data

June 21, 2022

Start: 10:00 am

Location: Online

Grace Tompkins
PhD student in Biostatistics 

Multiplicative Inverse Intensity and Probability Weights for Irregular Longitudinal Data Analysis

July 19, 2022

Start: 10:00 am

Location: Online

Carlos Araiza Iturria
PhD student in Actuarial Science

A Discrimination-free Premium Under a Causal Framework

Fall 2022 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

November 8, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: M3 3127

Jonathan Stallrich
North Carolina State University

Tuning Parameter Selection for Variable Selection via 

November 15, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: M3 3127

Adam Howes
Imperial College London

Integrated nested Laplace approximations for extended latent Gaussian models with application to the Naomi HIV model

November 29, 2022

Start: 4:00 pm

Location: M3 3127

Lisa Gao
Assistant Professor

A spatial factor copula for replicated weather property insurance loss data

Winter 2023 seminars:

March 7, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Tatiana Krikella
Ph.D. student in Biostatistics

Personalized Predictive Model that Jointly Optimizes Discrimination and Calibration

March 14, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Alexandra Mossman
Ph.D. student in Biostatistics

Overview of Causal Inference in the Presence of Within- and Between-Group Interference

March 28, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Zelalem Negeri
Assistant Professor

Latent class models for an individual participant data meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy studies

Fall 2023 seminars:

Date  Speaker Title

October 16, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Chris Salahub
PhD candidate in Statistics

Searching Pairwise for Interesting Variables

November 13, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Luke Hagar
PhD candidate in Statistics

Targeted Hypercube Sampling for Scalable Experimental Design

November 27, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Jeffrey Negrea
Assistant Professor

Adapting to Failure of the IID Assumption

December 4, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Xianwei Li
PhD candidate in Statistics (Biostatistics)

Variable Selection and Prediction for Multistate Models under Intermittent Observation