Industrial Affiliates Conference 2019
February 22, 2019 - 9:00am
2019 Conference Program
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Art Owen
Session 1: Jacqueline Meulman
9:10 Mona Azadkia, 4th-year doctoral student — "A Simple Estimator of Conditional Dependence"
9:35 Sangho Yoon, Google
9:50 Itamar Herzberg, Google
10:05 Matteo Sesia, 4th-year doctoral student — "Deep Knockoffs"
10:30 Morning Break
Session 2: Trevor Hastie
10:55 Rina Friedberg, 4th-year doctoral student — "Leveraging Smoothness with Random Forests"
11:20 Hera He and Yuming Kuang, Two Sigma Investments
11:45 Keli Liu, 5th-year doctoral student — "Prediction When the Signal is Nonlinear and the Features are (Mostly) Junk"
12:10 Lunch
Session 3: Guenther Walther
1:10 Michael Sklar, 3rd-year doctoral student — "Adaptive Arm Dropping in Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials"
1:35 Kenneth Church, Baidu Research
2:00 Nikolaos Ignatiadis, 3rd-year doctoral student — "Covariate Powered Cross-weighted Multiple Testing"
2:25 Afternoon Break
Session 4: John Chambers
2:50 Min Liu, LinkedIn
3:15 Fang Cai, 3rd-year doctoral student — "Estimation and Accuracy after Model Selection"
3:40 Brad Klingenberg, Stitch Fix
4:05 Closing Remarks: Art Owen
