Breakfast and registration
08:00 AM

Breakfast and registration

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08:30 AM

Opening remark

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08:50 AM

Welcome: Prof. Xin Gao

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09:00 AM

Expectation propagation is a technique from computer science for overcoming tractability obstacles in inference for Bayesian graphical models.

Matt Wand

University of Technology Sydney

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09:45 AM

Community detection for networks has been studied intensively in recent years.

Bing-Yi Jing

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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10:15 AM

Coffee Break and group photo

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10:45 AM

Existing RDF engines are designed for specific hardware architectures; porting to a different architecture (e.g.,  GPUs) entails enormous implementation effort.

Panos Kalnis

KAUST

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11:15 AM

Developments in data acquisition and sharing are opening up opportunities to apply big-date approaches across multiple areas of ocean research.

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02:00 PM

Currently, there exists no scalable method to compare various human diseases in terms of their short-term discomfort for suffering patients.

Andrey Rzhetsky

University of Chicago

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02:45 PM

Advances in imaging technology has given unprecedented access for neuroscientists to examine various facets of how the brain “works”.

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03:30 PM

Coffee break

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04:00 PM

Data analysis is experiencing two changes. Firstly, the data used in analysis is changing from mostly domain-specific data to data from multiple, often unfamiliar, sources; and secondly, data analysis practitioners are changing from only computer scientists or statisticians and other technical experts to experts in the application domains.

X. Sean Wang

Fudan University

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04:30 PM

Proteins function in living organisms as enzymes, antibodies, sensors, and transporters, among myriad other roles.

Xuefeng Cui

Tsinghua University

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05:30 PM

Conference Dinner

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Breakfast
08:00 AM

Breakfast

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08:45 AM

In the conventional statistical framework, the goal is developing optimal inference procedures, where optimality is understood with respect to the sample size and parameter space.

Tony Cai

University of Pennsylvania

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Computation of node proximity on graphs is a fundamental graph mining problem, which is widely explored in recommendation, web search and community discovery applications.

Ji-Rong Wen

Renmin University of China

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The observations for continuous-time dynamical models becomes widely available at a manner of extremely high frequency.

Zhi Liu

University of Macau

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Coffee Break

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With the rapid development of online service, sensing and social networking technologies, large quantities of human behavioral data are now readily available.

Xing Xie

Microsoft Research Asia

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Interaction screening for high-dimensional problems has recently drawn much attention.

Hao Helen Zhang

University of Arizona

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12:00 PM

Lunch

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Ever since humans became sentient beings, science, industry, and business have each played vital roles in the development of their civilizations, each developing in a way that reinforces the other.

Wei Zhao

American University of Sharjah

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Machine Learning (ML) techniques now are ubiquitous tools to extract useful information from data collections.

Bin Cui

Peking University

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Coffee Break

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The life sciences have invested significant resources in the development and application of semantic technologies to make research data accessible and interlinked, and to enable the integration and analysis of data.

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Kernel selection aims at choosing an appropriate kernel function for kernel-based learning algorithms to avoid either underfitting or overfitting of the resulting hypothesis.

Lizhong Ding

KAUST

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Gala dinner in Yacht Club

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Breakfast
08:00 AM

Breakfast

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The event "Keynote 6: Optimality of Spectral Methods for Ranking, Community Detections and Beyond. Uniform pertubation analysis of eigenspaces and its applications to Community Detection, Ranking and Beyond (Prof. Jianqing Fan, Princeton University)" starts on 21 March 2018, 08:45 AM and ends on 21 June 2021, 09:30 AM. Please create separate events for each day, or modify the dates so the event only takes place in a single day

09:30 AM

Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice, and we often rely on regression models to make inference.

Heping Zhang

Yale University

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10:00 AM

Consider a sequence of data points @%X_1,...,X_n%@ whose underlying mean is @%\theta^*\in\mathbb{R}^n%@.

Cun-Hui Zhang

Rutgers University

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Coffee Break

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High-throughput methods based on chromosome conformation capture technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) organization of genomes and demonstrated that genome architecture strongly influences gene regulation.

Wenxiu Ma

University of California

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11:30 AM

Modern supercomputers like Shaheen II at KAUST are specially designed and architected for large-scale parallel simulation workloads such as computational fluid dynamics or weather forecasting

James Maltby

Cray, Inc

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12:00 PM

Lunch

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02:00 PM

As the society-wide digitalization unfolds, aspects of our lives are increasingly being captured digitally.

Christian S. Jensen

Aalborg University

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02:45 PM

The increasing pressure toward transparent, explainable and accountable reasoning in Artificial Intelligence has caused renewed attention to be given to causal models.

Michèle Sebag

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Coffee Break

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03:45 PM

This work has been motivated by the challenge of the 2017 conference on Extreme-Value Analysis (EVA2017), with the goal of predicting daily precipitation quantiles at the $99.8\%$ level for each month at observed and unobserved locations.

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04:00 PM

Closing remark

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04:15 PM

In this talk, I will introduce the notion of "uniform generalization" across all loss classes and show how it bridges the gap between statistical learning theory and information theory.

Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin

Saudi Aramco

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06:00 PM

Closing dinner

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