Each semester the Graduate Students of the Department of Statistics will invite speakers to present a seminar on topics they are specifically invested in. Listed below will be the list of student invited speakers and the topics they covered. 

Spring 2018 Graduate Student Invited Speaker

Jianqing FanJianqing Fan, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering 
Seminar Title: Distributed Estimation of Principal Eigenspaces
April 19, 2018

Jianqing Fan, is a statisticianfinancial econometrician, and data scientist. He is Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at the Princeton University where he chaired the department from 2012 to 2015. He is the winner of The 2000 COPSS Presidents' AwardMorningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics (2007), Guggenheim Fellow (2009), Pao-Lu Hsu Prize (2013) and Guy Medal in Silver (2014). He got elected to Academician from Academia Sinica in 2012. 

 

Spring 2019 Graduate Student Invited Speaker

Roger KoenkerRoger Koenker, Honorary Professor of Economics, University College London
Seminar Title:
Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients
April 19, 2019

Roger Koenker is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University College London. Until 2018, he was a McKinley Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from 1976 to 1983 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories. He has held visiting positions at The University of Pennsylvania; Charles University, Prague; Nuffield College, Oxford; University College London; and Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the American Statistical Association, and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He obtained his A.B. from Grinnell College in 1969, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974; he is a recipient of the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, in 2010. Among other topics, he devoted more than 25 years of research to Quantile Regression; his monograph on this topic is an authoritative reference in this fast growing field.