Session 1 · Talk 1
Xihong Lin
Statistics Department Chair; Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
Harvard University
28 invited speakers
Invited speakers
Researchers spanning functional data, geometric statistics, high-dimensional inference, networks, machine learning, AI, and complex scientific applications.
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Thursday
November 12, 2026
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Session 1 · Talk 2
Lan Wang
Centennial Endowed Chair Professor; Chair, Department of Management Science
University of Miami
Session 1 · Talk 3
Shujie Ma
Professor of Statistics; Graduate Advisor
University of California, Riverside
Session 2 · Talk 1
Hongtu Zhu
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session 2 · Talk 3
Minge Xie
Distinguished Professor; Director, Office of Statistical Consulting
Rutgers University
Session 3 · Talk 1
Chengchun Shi
Associate Professor of Statistics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Session 3 · Talk 2
Jeng-Min (Jamie) Chiou
Distinguished Professor & Director, Institute of Statistics and Data Science
National Taiwan University
Session 3 · Talk 3
Krishna Balasubramanian
Associate Professor of Statistics
University of California, Davis
Session 3 · Talk 4
James R. Carey
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Entomology
University of California, Davis
Friday
November 13, 2026
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Session 4 · Talk 1
Jianqing Fan
Frederick L. Moore ’18 Professor of Finance; Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning
Princeton University
Session 4 · Talk 2
Xiaotong T. Shen
Professor, School of Statistics
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Session 4 · Talk 3
Qiwei Yao
Professor of Statistics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Session 5 · Talk 1
Bin Yu
Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor, Statistics & EECS
University of California, Berkeley
Session 5 · Talk 2
Tailen Hsing
Michael B. Woodroofe Collegiate Professor of Statistics
University of Michigan
Session 5 · Talk 3
Xiaofeng Shao
Professor of Statistics & Data Science and Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
Session 6 · Talk 1
Steve Marron
Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session 6 · Talk 2
Stephan Huckemann
University Professor; Chair for Non-Euclidean Statistics
University of Göttingen
Session 7 · Talk 3
Iain Johnstone
Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science
Stanford University
Saturday
November 14, 2026
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Session 8 · Talk 2
Harrison Zhou
Henry Ford II Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Yale University
Session 8 · Talk 3
Sean C. L. Deoni
Senior Program Officer, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Discovery & Tools
Gates Foundation
Session 9 · Talk 1
Daisuke Kurisu
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics
The University of Tokyo
Session 9 · Talk 2
Catherine C. Liu
Associate Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
