Talks and Presentations

  • A Sharper Computational Tool for L2E Regression
    The 65th Annual Fall Technical Conference. Oct. 5, 2023. Invited talk [slides].

  • A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion
    2023 Joint Statistical Meetings. Aug. 8, 2023. Contributed paper presentation.

  • A Convex-Nonconvex Strategy for Grouped Variable Selection
    The 36th New England Statistics Symposium. June 6, 2023. Invited talk [slides].

  • A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion
    Statistical Foundations of Data Science and their Applications: A conference in celebration of Jianqing Fan’s 60th Birthday. May 9, 2023. Poster presentation.

  • A Convex-Nonconvex Strategy for Grouped Variable Selection
    Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society Spring Meeting. Mar. 21, 2023. Oral-contributed presentation.

  • A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion
    UF Statistics 2023 Winter Workshop. Jan. 13, 2023. Poster presentation.

  • A Convex-Nonconvex Strategy for Grouped Variable Selection
    Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), Dec. 19, 2022. Invited session talk.

  • A Tutorial on Boosting Methods
    Duke University (Randles Lab), Nov. 17, 2022. Invited talk.

  • R for Data Science
    Biomedical Data Science Workshop & Careers Panel, UCLA. July 17, 2022. Workshop instructor

  • A Convex-Nonconvex Strategy for Grouped Variable Selection
    2022 Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, June 9, 2022. Refereed talk.

  • A Convex-Nonconvex Strategy for Grouped Variable Selection
    University of California, Los Angles (Statistics and Genetics Seminar), Nov. 10, 2021. Invited talk.

  • A Tutorial on CART Algorithm
    Duke University (Randles Lab), Nov. 9, 2021. Invited talk.

  • An Interpretable Machine Learning Model to Classify Coronary Bifurcation Lesions
    The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Oct 31 – Nov 4, 2021. Presentation

  • Randomized Projections in Derivative-Free Optimization
    2021 Summer Argonne Student Symposium (SASSy), July 30, 2021. Presentation

  • Revisiting Convexity-Preserving Signal Recovery with the Linearly Involved GMC Penalty
    International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium, Dec.14, 2020. E-poster presentation

  • Revisiting Convexity-Preserving Signal Recovery with the Linearly Involved GMC Penalty
    Women in Statistics and Data Science Virtual Conference, Oct. 1, 2020. E-poster presentation