Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Blakeley McShane - Associate Professor, University of Northwestern

  • Title: Statistical Significance and the Dichotomization of Evidence

• Dr. Andrew Gelman - Professor, Columbia University

  • Title: What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?

COVID-19 Panel discussion Chair and Panelists

• Dr. Ann Chen - Senior Member, Moffitt Cancer Center

• Dr. Jeff Morris - Professor, University of Pennsylvania

• Dr. Yang Yang - Associate Professor, University of Florida

• Dr. Jason Salemi - Associate Professor, University of South Florida

• Dr. Bob Small - A semi-retired consultant and a Fellow of the ASA. His previous position was Global Head of Clinical Biostatistics at Sanofi-Pasteur. After a 13-year academic career he enjoyed a 36-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, usually supervising large groups of clinical statisticians. Most of his present consulting is with The Coalition for Emergency Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Invited Session Speakers - Machine Learning

• Dr. Mitch Hill, Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

  • Title: Energy-Based Models for Unsupervised Image Representation and Adversarial Defense

• Dr. Adrian Barbu, Professor, Florida State University

  • Title: Learning nonlinear feature interactions in the data starved regime

• Dr. Yasin Yilmaz, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

  • Title: Real-Time Video Anomaly Detection with Asymptotic Bound on False Alarm Rate