Industrial Affiliates Annual Conference
This highlight event will be attended by IA Program Members alongside Statistics Department faculty and graduate students. Affiliates will have an opportunity to meet the students and faculty, and will give short presentations: a 25-minute informal talk that introduces the speaker and the company, and offers a discussion of the role of statistics within that company, or even poses a statistical problem of particular interest to that company or industry. We also expect a number of graduate students to present their research.
November 4 & 5, 2021
A Virtual Two-Day Conference via Zoom
10am to 2pm (PDT) each day
Affiliate members confirmed for the event: Baidu Research, Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies, Google, LinkedIn, Munich Re, Stitch Fix, Two Sigma
Student speakers to present: Maxime Cauchois, Zijun Gao, Suyash Gupta, Samir Khan, Dan Kluger, Shuangning Li, Damian Pavlyshyn, Debolina Paul
Conference Timetable
| SESSION CHAIR | SPEAKER | THUR AM | THUR PM | BREAKS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacqueline Meulman | Opening Remarks | 10:00 | ||
| Suyash Gupta (5th year PhD student) | 10:05 | |||
| Ping Li, Xiaoyun Li, Suhay Bhatt & Weijie Zhao, Baidu Research | 10:30 | |||
| :05 | ||||
| Meeyoung Park & Li Pan, Google | 11:00 | |||
| Debolina Paul (1st year PhD student) | 11:25 | |||
| Michael Berger, Munich Re | 11:50 | |||
| :15 | ||||
| Art Owen | Kinjal Basu, LinkedIn | 12:30 | ||
| Dan Kluger (4th year PhD student) | 12:55 | |||
| :05 | ||||
| Yuming Kuang & Dai Shi, Two Sigma Investments | 1:25 |
| SESSION CHAIR | SPEAKER | FRI AM | FRI PM | BREAKS |
| Jonathan Taylor | Samir Khan (3rd year PhD student) | 10:00 | ||
| Shuangning Li (5th year PhD student) | 10:25 | |||
| :05 | ||||
| Zijun Gao (5th year PhD student) | 10:55 | |||
| Keith Henwood, Stitch Fix | 11:20 | |||
| Maxime Cauchois (5th year PhD student) | 11:45 | |||
| :15 | ||||
| John Chambers | Damian Pavlyshyn (5th year PhD student) | 12:25 | ||
| Sangho Yoon, Google | 12:50 | |||
| :05 | ||||
| James Johndrow & Jeremy Shin, Citadel | 1:20 | |||
| Closing Remarks | 1:45 | |||
| Breakout Rooms Open | 1:50 |
