The Eighth Celebration of Statistics and Data Science – a day-long conference and celebration featuring talks from nine leaders in statistics, including five Cornell alumni – will take place 9 a.m., Friday, Sept. 5, in the J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center in the Statler Hotel.
Hosted by the Department of Statistics and Data Science, the event is a dual conference and celebration of Cornell’s rich history in statistics, data science, and mathematics. Cornell scholars are invited to attend, though seats are limited and registration is required.
As part of the celebration, Chris Jennison, Ph.D. ’82, a professor of statistics at the University of Bath, will receive the department’s annual Distinguished Alumni Award and give the keynote talk.
The slate of speakers includes:
- Jennison, “Group Sequential and Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs: Achievements and Challenges”
- Iain Johnstone, Ph.D. ‘81, Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Data Science in Stanford’s School of Medicine, “Complex Variables and the CLT for Generalized Linear Mixed Models”
- Dan Kowal, Ph.D. ’17, associate professor of statistics and data science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, “Facilitating Heterogeneous Effect Estimation via Statistically Efficient Categorical Modifiers”
- Cyrus Mehta, president and co-founder of Cytel Corporation and adjunct professor of biostatistics at Harvard University, “Graph Based, Adaptive, Multi Arm, Multiple Endpoint, Two Stage Design”
- William Rosenberger, Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University, “Sequential Design and Analysis in the Randomized Clinical Trial: A Historical Perspective”
- Ajit Tanhame, professor emeritus of industrial engineering & management sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University, “Testing Primary and Secondary Endpoints in a Two-Stage Group Sequential Clinical Trial”
- Judy Zhong, professor and division chief of biostatistics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, “Uniting Methodological Rigor and Automation: Advancing Clinical Trial Methods and Operations”
- Vadim Zipunnikov, Ph.D. ’09, associate professor of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “Developing More Sensitive Endpoints by Leveraging Novel Statistical Methods for Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) Data”