Upcoming Presentations and Sessions

1. Organizer and Invited Speaker, Invited Session “Statistical Models for Dynamic Neural Activity and Brain Networks” (talk: “Spatially Informed Bayesian Clustering of Neural Spiking Activity with Dynamic Latent Structure”), 2027 ENAR Spring Meeting, March 2027, Boston, MA, USA.
2. Organizer and Chair, Invited Session “Modern Statistical Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease: Genetics, Brain Networks, Survival Risk, and Biomarker Selection“, 2027 ENAR Spring Meeting, March 2027, Boston, MA, USA.
3. Invited Seminar, Department of Statistics, Rice University, March 2027, Houston, TX, USA.
4. Organizer and Invited Discussant, Invited Session “Empowering the Next Generation of Statisticians for the AI Era“, 2027 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2027, Chicago, IL, USA.
5. Organizer and Chair, Invited Session “From Latent Traits to Latent Trajectories: Bayesian Learning of Unobserved Heterogeneity“, 2027 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2027, Chicago, IL, USA.
6. Invited Speaker, Invited Session “Michael Woodroofe’s Legacy: From Foundational Theory to Real-World Impact“, 2027 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2027, Chicago, IL, USA.

Interdisciplinary Seminars

In Fall 2020, I co-founded the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Statistical Methodology for Social and Behavioral Research at UConn with Professor Betsy McCoach, then of UConn’s Department of Educational Psychology and now the Anne Anastasi Professor of Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology at Fordham University. I currently co-organize the series with Professor Eric Loken of the Department of Educational Psychology.

The series aims to strengthen connections between the statistics and social/behavioral science communities and to encourage more graduate students to participate in interdisciplinary research in this area. Since its launch, it has hosted nearly 40 seminars by leading researchers, including Bengt Muthén, David Dunson, Jennifer Hill, Susan Murphy, Kosuke Imai, Elizabeth Stuart, Dylan Small, Irini Moustaki, Zhiliang Ying, and Kenneth Bollen. The series is supported by the Department of Statistics and the Department of Educational Psychology at UConn, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), and the New England Statistical Society (NESS), with additional funding from the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) and the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) in 2025–2026. For the full list of past and upcoming seminars, please visit this page.

Media Reports of Our PNAS Paper

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