2021 Industrial Affiliates Annual Conference

Date

Thu November 4th 2021, 10:00am - Fri November 5th 2021, 2:00pm

A Virtual Two-Day Conference

10am to 2pm (PDT) each day

Agenda

Nov 4

10:00 am - 12:15 pm

10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks from the Session Chair
10:05 Suyash Gupta, 5th-year doctoral student: “Stability under distributional shifts”
10:30 Ping Li, Xiaoyun Li, Suhay Bhatt and Weijie Zhao, Baidu Research
10:55 5-minute break
11:00 Meeyoung Park and Li Pan, Google
11:25 Debolina Paul, 1st-year doctoral student: “Uniform concentration bounds toward a unified framework for robust clustering”
11:50 Michael Berger, Munich Re
12:15 15-minute break

Nov 4

12:30 - 1:50 pm

12:30 Kinjal Basu, LinkedIn
12:55 Dan Kluger, 4th-year doctoral student: “Tie-breaker designs provide more efficient kernel estimates than regression discontinuity designs”
1:20 5-minute break
1:25 Yuming Kuang and Dai Shi, Two Sigma Investments

Nov 5

10:00 am - 12:15 pm

10:00 Samir Khan, 3rd-year doctoral student: “Adaptive normalization for IPW estimation”
10:25 Shuangning Li, 5th-year doctoral student: “Searching for consistent associations with a multi-environment knockoff filter”
10:50 5-minute break
10:55 Zijun Gao, 5th-year doctoral student: “LinCDE: Conditional density estimation via Lindsey's method”
11:20 Keith Henwood, Stitch Fix
11:45 Maxime Cauchois, 5th-year doctoral student: “Lifecycle of statistical models: Detection, localization and retraining”
12:10 15-minute break

Nov 5

12:25 - 1:50 pm

12:25 Damian Pavlyshyn, 5th-year doctoral student: “From scree plots to magnetism: Critical spikes in random matrix models”
12:50 Sangho Yoon, Google
1:15 5-minute break
1:20 James Johndrow and Jeremy Shin, Citadel GQS
1:45 Closing Remarks from the Session Chair
1:50 Breakout Rooms Open