The 2014 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference on Research Innovations in Statistics for Health, Education, Technology, and Society will be held at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California during July 11-13. The goal of the conference is to bring together a diverse group of researchers, educators, professionals, postdocs, and graduate students to share information on recent advancements in the fields of statistics, biostatistics, probability, and their application areas, including health, education, environment, technology, and society.
This award partially supports the participation of students and young researchers in the conference, which brings together senior researchers, professionals, educators, and students from academia, industries, government, and research institutes to discuss the major issues and challenges in these fields and to share the latest developments. The conference includes plenary, special invited, young-researcher, and contributed presentations, as well as student presentations selected via competition.
Conference web site: www.intindstat.org/conference2014
was held at the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California, USA. This project was an NSF funded conference by the award number 1420056. Highly talented young researchers, fresh PhDs, and advanced PhD students took the center stage at the conference along with the mid-career prominent as well as senior distinguished researchers. Speakers were represented by Academia, Industries, Research Centers, and Government Organizations. About 250 statisticians participated at this conference to discuss the recent advancements, exchange ideas, and identify new directions of research. Plenary speakers were Nicholas P. Jewell, University of California, Berkeley and Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University. Special invited speakers were Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota; Joyee Ghosh (Young Researcher), The University of Iowa; Ryan P. Hafen (Young Researcher: IISA President’s Invited on BIG DATA), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; William DuMouchel, Oracle Health Sciences; Marc A. Suchard, University of California, Los Angeles; Adityanand Guntuboyina (Young Researcher), University of California, Berkeley; Mark. J van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley; and Gourab Mukherjee (Young Researcher), University of Southern California. Distinguished researchers representing many countries as invited speakers include Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta, Canada; Regina Liu, Rutgers University; Mia Hubert, KU Leuven, Belgium; Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington, Seattle; Peter F. Thall, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Huston; Valerii V. Fedorov, Quintiles; Christine Müeller, TU Dortmund University, Germany; Joseph Heyse, Merck Research Laboratories; Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University; and George Michailidis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
