Theory and Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data

A conference hosted by the Department of Statistics, Florida State University, in coordination with the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), to celebrate the birth centenary of Debabrata Basu and Raghu Raj Bahadur and to honor their fundamental contributions to statistics. Topics include Bayesian statistics, time series, hypothesis testing, survey sampling, and high-dimensional and multivariate statistics. 

Scientific Program   -   Student Paper Competition   -   Abstract Submissionand Registration

Confirmed Speakers

Plenary Speakers

• T. Tony Cai, Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Merlise A. Clyde, Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
• Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

Invited Speakers

• Malay Ghosh, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
• Roderick Little, Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
• Zhengyuan Zhu, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa State University
• Ed George, Universal Furniture Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania
• Surya Tokdar, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University
• Steve MacEachern, Distinguished Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics, The Ohio State University
• Peter Mueller, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin
• Peter Hoff, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University
• Xiaotong Shen, John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• Vladimir Koltchinskii, Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Elvezio Ronchetti, Professor of Statistics, Research Center for Statistics and Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
• Soumendra Lahiri, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Stanley A. Sawyer Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
• Dan Nordman, Professor and Dale D. Grosvenor Chair, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• Ting Zhang, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Georgia
• Ian W. McKeague, Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University
• Sanat K. Sarkar, Cyrus C.K. Curtis Professor in Statistics, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University
• Aaron Molstad, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• Saptarshi Chakraborty, Assistant professor of biostatistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Leo L. Duan, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Florida
• Paromita Dubey, Assistant Professor, Marshall Business School, University of Southern California
• Yuqi Gu, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
• Yinqiu He, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Andee Kaplan, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Colorado State University
• Runmin Wang, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University