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08:00 UTC
S400 - Building Future Leaders in Statistics and Data Science Japan's Collaborative Model from School Education to Society
Tuesday October 6, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 UTC
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Mathematics Teacher, Nagoya University Junior and Senior High School
Kiwa Tomaru is a mathematics teacher at Nagoya University Junior and Senior High School, where she has designed and taught the compulsory Data Science course since its introduction in 2022, emphasizing reading data correctly over formula-based instruction — work recognized with...
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Professor, University of Tsukuba
Yoko Konishi is a professor at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in applied econometrics and statistics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Nagoya University. Her research uses official statistics, private-sector big data, and large-scale surveys to study consumer behavior...
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09:00 UTC
S401 - Health and Biostatistics 1
Tuesday October 6, 2026 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
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SAiGENCI
Malvika is a PhD candidate in computational oncology at Adelaide University (Australia), where she develops statistical and computational methods to analyse complex biomedical data. Her research focuses on using large scale clinical and spatial imaging datasets to better understand...
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CISeAL - PUCE
PhD in Statistics, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Health in Latin America (CISeAL), where she contributes to projects aimed at reducing health inequalities and mitigating the impact of economic crises in the region. Her expertise centers...
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University of Cambridge
Researcher in Genetic Epidemiology at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, specializing in Mendelian randomization, a causal inference framework that uses genetic variants to assess the effects of putative risk factors on disease from observational data. My research...
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University College London
Leandra Bräuninger (they/them; she/her) is a doctoral student at University College London, supervised by Dr Brieuc Lehmann and Prof. Ioanna Manolopoulou, using statistical and machine learning methods to define, quantify and mitigate genomic inequity. Drawing on algorithmic fairness...
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10:00 UTC
S402 - Selected Topics in Statistical Methods and Applications
Tuesday October 6, 2026 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
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PhD Student in Statistics, Universidade da Coruña
I hold a PhD in Statistics from the Universidade da Coruña (UDC), where my research focused on the development of mixed models with random slopes for Small Area Estimation. My work combines statistical methodology with applications to socioeconomic and public health challenges, including...
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
She is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in econometric theory. Her research focuses on developing improved methods of statistical inference for evaluating the causal effects of policy interventions using both experimental...
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ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, ALIGARH, U.P., INDIA
Bushra Husain, Professor is the Chairperson of Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India and has been working as Faculty of Statistics at Women's College since 2003. She has obtained B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Statistics...
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PhD Scholar at IIT Hyderabad
I am currently pursuing my PhD in Statistics at IIT Hyderabad, where I also work as a Teaching Assistant. My research mainly focuses on statistical theory, multivariate analysis, and computational statistics. I cleared two of India's toughest competitive exams with high ranks, securing...
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12:00 UTC
S403 - Change point detection and its applications
Tuesday October 6, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
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Clemenson University
Rebecca Killick is Associate Director of Research in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University. Dr. Killick received a PhD in Statistics from Lancaster University, where until 2026, held a Professor and Director of Research positions. In 2019 Dr. Killick was the...
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JPMorgan Chase & Company
Kun Liu is a Vice President and Quant Modeling Lead at JPMorgan Chase with expertise in AI, machine learning, credit risk, fraud detection, and causal inference. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Georgia Tech and has over eight years of experience developing and deploying advanced...
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Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Meenu Rani is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Her doctoral research focuses on change point detection, including both offline and online settings. Her work has primarily involved applications to financial data.
Hacettepe University
Dr. Yiğiter received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 1995, 2000 and 2006, respectively. In 2007, she was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA. She is currently working...
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13:00 UTC
S404 - Coordinating Evidence for Better Research Design: Priors, Assumptions, and Scientific Judgment
Tuesday October 6, 2026 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
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The Policy & Research Group
Noor Qaragholi is a public health researcher with 15 years of experience conducting qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research to improve health programs, services, and systems. As a Senior Research Analyst at The Policy & Research Group, Dr. Qaragholi leads large-scale...
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University of Michigan Dearborn
Utkarshani Jaimini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she joined as a faculty in Fall 2025. She holds her doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina. Her research lies at the intersection...
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Zetyra, LLC
Lu (Maggie) Qian is an independent biostatistician and founder of Evidence in the Wild and Zetyra. Her work focuses on Bayesian and adaptive clinical trial design, regulatory alignment, prior specification, prior-data conflict, and operating characteristics of composed adaptive pipelines...
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The Hospital for Sick Children
Dr. Heath is a Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, an Associate Professor at University of Toronto and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. She is the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Trial Design. She arrived at SickKids in 2018...
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15:00 UTC
S406 - Selected Topics in AI and Data Science
Tuesday October 6, 2026 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
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United States, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Dr. Kristina P. Vatcheva is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) College of Sciences. She has training and experience in mathematics, computer programming/application development, biostatistics...
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Akron Children's Hospital
Dr. Sima Sharghi is a Senior Statistician and researcher with expertise in causal inference, Bayesian statistics, real-world evidence, electronic health record analytics, and predictive modeling in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Statistics and has extensive experience collaborating...
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University of A Coruña
María Bugallo is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the University of A Coruña working in methodological statistics, with a focus on small area estimation and robust statistical modelling. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche...
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University of Kentucky
Maliha Mehnaz Mitu is a PhD Candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Kentucky whose research focuses on methodological challenges in interpretable machine learning and Artificial Intelligence for healthcare. Her work integrates statistical learning, missing data methodology...
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17:00 UTC
S407 - Health and Biostatistics 2
Tuesday October 6, 2026 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
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Drexel University
Gaoqianxue (Daphne) Liu is a PhD student in Biostatistics at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Her research includes scalable Bayesian methods for high-dimensional and graphical models in electronic health records, longitudinal and trajectory modeling, and machine...
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University College London
Leandra Bräuninger (they/them; she/her) is a doctoral student at University College London, supervised by Dr Brieuc Lehmann and Prof. Ioanna Manolopoulou, using statistical and machine learning methods to define, quantify and mitigate genomic inequity. Drawing on algorithmic fairness...
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Graduate Reasearch Assistant
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University in Michigan, specializing in Applied Mathematics. Currently, I am in my fifth and final year, and I expect to graduate in December 2026. My research involves developing several statistical...
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18:00 UTC
S408 - Bridging the Gap: How Practicing Data Scientists Use LLMs in the Wild and What It Means for Data Science Education
Tuesday October 6, 2026 18:00 - 18:30 UTC
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University of British Columbia
Dr. Tiffany Timbers is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics and Instructor in the Master of Data Science program at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from UBC and completed postdoctoral research in behavioral and neural...
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University of British Columbia
Dr. Tiffany Timbers is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics and Instructor in the Master of Data Science program at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from UBC and completed postdoctoral research in behavioral and neural...
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18:30 UTC
20:00 UTC
S410 - Statistical Inference with Incomplete Data
Tuesday October 6, 2026 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
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Professor, The Ohio State University
Rebecca Andridge is a Professor of Biostatistics at The Ohio State University College of Public Health. She conducts methodologic work on imputation methods for missing data, primarily when missingness is driven by the missing values themselves (missing not at random), and on measures...
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University of Wrocław, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Krystyna Grzesiak is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław. She conducts research on developing machine learning methods for the analysis of proteomic and metabolomic data.
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
Bojana Milošević is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Probability and Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. Her research interests include nonparametric statistics, statistical hypothesis testing, survival analysis, dependence analysis...
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North-West University
Anke Steyn is a lecturer at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Her research interests include survival analysis, goodness-of-fit testing and experimental design. She qualified as an actuary and recently completed her doctoral degree in Statistics. Her great...
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21:00 UTC
S411 - Fireside Chat with CWS Country Representatives: Navigating the Impact of AI in Teaching, Research, and Professional Practice
Tuesday October 6, 2026 21:00 - 22:00 UTC
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MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Sofia S. Villar is a Research Professor and Group Leader within the Efficient Study Design theme at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, where she also serves as Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Her research bridges optimization, machine lear...
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Department of Mathematical Sciences and CEAUL, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
Lígia Henriques Rodrigues is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is a researcher at the Centre of Statistics and Its Applications of the University of Lisbon.
Her research focuses mainly on Extreme Value Statistics, semi-parametric estimation, bias reduction, risk modelling, Bayesian analysis, spatio-temporal models and survival analysis. Her work combines methodological developments in Statistics with applications to real data, particularly...
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Department of Statistics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Gabriela Bettella Cybis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where she is also a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Statistics.
She holds a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. in Mathematics f...
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Purdue University
Atinuke Adebanji is an Associate Professor of Practice- Statistics at Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Her research and engagement activities focuses on applied multivariate methods, statistical modelling of public health outcomes, multidisciplinary statistical collaboration, and promoting statistical literacy. She has published articles on new distributions applied to health data...
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22:00 UTC
S412 - Building Trustworthy Financial Systems with Explainable AI: Applications in Credit Risk Modeling and Financial Inclusion
Tuesday October 6, 2026 22:00 - Wednesday October 7, 2026 18:30 UTC
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University of West Georgia
Angela Omogbeme is a financial technology researcher and data analytics professional specializing in artificial intelligence, explainable AI, fraud detection, credit risk modeling, and financial inclusion.
She holds an M.S. in Business Analytics (4.0 GPA) from the University of West Georgia and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK. Her research has been presented internationally, including at conferences hosted at the University of Oxford ,UK and the University...
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University of West Georgia
Angela Omogbeme is a financial technology researcher and data analytics professional specializing in artificial intelligence, explainable AI, fraud detection, credit risk modeling, and financial inclusion.
She holds an M.S. in Business Analytics (4.0 GPA) from the University of West Georgia and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK. Her research has been presented internationally, including at conferences hosted at the University of Oxford ,UK and the University...
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Tuesday October 6, 2026 22:00 - Wednesday October 7, 2026 18:30
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