Tony Cai is a Vice Dean and the Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of the 2008 COPSS Presidents' Award, a Fellow and Medallion Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and was a Co-Editor for The Annals of Statistics (2010-2012). He is/was an associate editor for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B), Journal of American Statistical Association, and The Annals of Statistics. His current research interests include high dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, large-scale inference, and statistical decision theory.
Keynote 4: Statistical and Computational Limits for Submatrix Localization and Sparse Matrix Detection (Prof. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania)
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.