2025 Industrial Affiliates Annual Conference

Date
Thu November 6th 2025, All day
Location
Room E160, Computing and Data Science Center
diverging white staircases
TimeSpeaker
Session I — Jacqueline Meulman 
9:05aTong Geng & Qing Zhang, Google: "Ad measurement and long-term effect of ads"
 Meeyoung Park & Chanhwa Lee, Google: “Lifetime-aware VM allocation”
 Henry Pascoe, Google: “Prediction-powered inference for measuring the prevalence of rare classes"
9:55aIvy Zhang: "Predicting data value before outcome collection"
10:20aMorning Break
Session II — Guenther Walther 
10:45aWenlong Ji: "Multi-armed bandits with machine learning-generated surrogate rewards"
11:10aYuanyuan Li, Munich Re: “Beyond accuracy: Quantifying error correlations in AI models”
11:35aRahul Kanekar: "Power properties and applications of graph-based two-sample tests"
12nLunch
Session III — Art Owen 
1pMaxime Cauchois, Two Sigma: “Forecasting financial returns with machine learning”
1:25pAmber Hu: "Fast, reliable, and interpretable inference of latent dynamical systems"
1:50pJames Johndrow, Citadel: “Applications of ML in finance”
2:15pAfternoon Break
Session IV — John Chambers 
2:40pSophia Lu: "Efficient likelihood-free adaptive Bayesian inference"
3:05pPierre Demartines, BlackRock: “Alpha research in BlackRock Systematic”
3:30pYash Nair: "Diversifying conformal selections"
3:55pClosing Remarks