The 2019 Statistics and Data Science Workshop

Monday, November 18, 2019 (9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.)
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 (9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) 
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (9:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.*)
Auditorium 0215, between bldg. 2 and 3

From November 18 to 20, the KAUST CEMSE Division will host the 2019 Statistics and Data Science Workshop. The workshop, organized by Workshop Chair Professor Ying Sun from the KAUST Environmental Statistics Group, will feature 17 keynote talks from eminent data science researchers from Asia, Europe, North America and KAUST. Talks taking place will include: Personalized recommendation by learning from heterogeneous graph data; Dynamic spatial panel models: networks, common shocks, and sequential  exogeneity; Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo; and many more.

Workshop organizers:

• Prof. David Bolin, Research group
• Prof. Marc G. Genton, Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Group
• Prof. Raphael Huser, Extreme Statistics Group
• Prof. Hernando Ombao, Biostatistics Group
• Prof. Haavard Rue, Bayesian Computational Statistics and Modeling Group
• Prof. Ying Sun, Environmental Statistics Group, Workshop Chair

For more details, please click here.  

*After lunch on Wednesday, November 20, there will be a visit to the KAUST Data Visualization Lab followed by two e-poster sessions. The final day will conclude with a group dinner at the Al-Marsa Restaurant.