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2026-05-16 (Saturday)

Dongwan Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

09:00-09:15 (UTC+8) 09:00-09:15 Local Time | Opening Ceremony
09:15-10:05 (UTC+8) 09:15-10:05 Local Time | Keynote Speech-Jun Liu
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:15-10:05 09:15-10:05 Keynote Speech

Conditional sampling via diffusion flow and SMC

Jun Liu Tsinghua University

Dongwan Hall A (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Machine Learning for Policy Optimization and Causal Inference in Complex Systems
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Adaptive Multi-task Learning for Multi-sector Portfolio Optimization

Qingliang Fan The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Optimizing Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Spatial Interference: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures

Yunan Wu Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Digital behaviors signal consumer well-being: A factor-augmented regularized prediction model approach

Xiangnan Feng Fudan University
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

MR2G: A novel framework for causal network inference using GWAS summary

Haoran Xue City University of Hong Kong
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent Advances in Statistics and AI
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

A Statistical Framework for Alignment with Biased AI Feedback

Zhanrui Cai The University of Hong Kong
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Labels or Preferences? Budget-Constrained Learning with Human Judgments over AI-Generated Outputs

Ruijia Wu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Efficient machine unlearning with minimax optimality

Sai Li Tsinghua University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Anti-Concentration Inequalities for the Difference of Maxima of Gaussian Random Vectors

Shuting Shen National University of Singapore
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Optimal Inference under Privacy, Communication, and Sampling Constraints
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:15 15:50-16:15 Invited Talk

Federated Transfer Learning with Differential Privacy

Mengchu Li University of Birmingham
2 16:15-16:40 16:15-16:40 Invited Talk

Evaluating LLMs When They Do Not Know the Answer: Statistical Evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning via Comparative Signals

Linjun Zhang Rutgers University
3 16:40-17:05 16:40-17:05 Invited Talk

Optimality Theory for Adaptation under Differential Privacy

Lasse Vuursteen Duke University

Dongwan Hall B (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Advances in Causal Inference for Observation Data
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Confounder-robust causal discovery and inference in Perturb-seq using proxy and instrumental variables

Hongzhe Li University of Pennsylvania
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Robust Bias Calibration for Causal Inference of Observational Data

Yumou Qiu Peking University
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Correcting Nonignorable Nonresponse Bias in Turnout Estimation Using Callback Data

Wang Miao Peking University
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

Identification and Robust Inference for Multiple Treatments with Possibly Invalid Instruments

Ziwei Mei University of Macau
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent Developments in Hypothesis Testing
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Active Hypothesis Testing under Computational Budgets

Yin Xia Fudan University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Power Enhancement for Test of Multivariate Independence

Yeqing Zhou Tongji University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Model-X Knockoff Framework for Genome-Wide Survival Association Analysis

Shiyang Ma Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Is the F-test doubly robust?

Lucy Xia The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Advances in High-Dimensional Inference and Uncertainty Quantification
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

LLM-Powered Deep Panel Modeling

Jingyuan Liu Xiamen University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Statistical Inference for Conditional Group Distributionally Robust Optimization with Cross-Entropy Loss

Zijian Guo Zhejiang University
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional structured mixture model‌

Juan Shen Fudan University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Shape-Adaptive Conformal Prediction with Conditional Validity via Minimax Optimization

Haojie Ren Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Meizhu Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Advances in Machine Learning Theory
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Towards Understanding How Transformers Perform In-Context Logistic Regression

Yuan Cao The University of Hong Kong
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Non-vacuous Generalization Bounds for Overparameterized Shallow Neural Networks

Yunwen Lei The University of Hong Kong
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Transformers Meet In-Context Learning: A Universal Approximation Theory

Gen Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval

Wei Huang RIKEN AIP and The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Prediction and Machine learning in biomedical studies
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Machine learning methods to predict amyloid positivity using domain scores from cognitive tests

Guogen Shan University of Florida
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Statistical methods for cell-cell interaction studies on spatially resolved transcriptomics

Xiaoyu Song Duke-NUS Medical School
3 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Forecasting Respiratory Infectious Diseases with Adaptive and Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Kam Lun Tsang The University of Hong Kong
4 15:20-16:40 15:20-16:40 Invited Talk

Joint modeling in presence of informative censoring on the retrospective time scale with application to palliative care research

Quran Wu Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Robust and Efficient Estimation for Modern Causal and Treatment Effect Models
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:15 15:50-16:15 Invited Talk

Rate-Multiply Robust Estimation of General Treatment Models via Balanced Weighting

Wei Huang University of Melbourne
2 16:15-16:40 16:15-16:40 Invited Talk

Perturbed Double Machine Learning: Nonstandard Inference Beyond the Parametric Length

Mengchu Zheng Rutgers University
3 16:40-17:05 16:40-17:05 Invited Talk

Towards an efficiency theory on parameter manifolds

Lin Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Meishu Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Analyzing Complex Real-world Data
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

TBD

Yiqun Chen Johns Hopkins University
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Latent Space Modeling for Human Disease Network with Temporal Variations: Analysis of Medicare Data

Hao Mei Renmin University of China
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Causal effect heterogeneity estimation using summary statistics

Xingjie Shi East China Normal University
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

Statistical Inference for Random Objects

Hang Zhou UNC Chape Hill
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent Advances in Estimation and Inference for Structured and Heterogeneous Data
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:25 14:00-14:25 Invited Talk

High-dimensional Inference for Extreme Value Indices

Liujun Chen University of Science and Technology of China
2 14:25-14:50 14:25-14:50 Invited Talk

Asymptotic Theory and Penalized Estimation for Signal-plus-Noise Matrices with Heteroskedastic Noise and Weak Signals

Zhixiang Zhang University of Macau
3 14:50-15:15 14:50-15:15 Invited Talk

Probabilistic PCA on tensors

Yaoming Zhen The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Regression and Time-series in High-dimensional Setting
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Wasserstein Generative Regression

Shanshan Song Tongji University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

A robust and scalable framework for high-dimensional volatility estimation

Qianqian Zhu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

High-dimensional autoregressive time series modeling for symmetric matrices

Huiling Yuan East China Normal University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

High-dimensional Autoregressive Modeling for Time Series Data with Hierarchical Structures

Lan Li The University of Hong Kong

Yanshui Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | From Statistical Foundations to AI Impacts: Risk, Robustness, and Representation
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Quantifying Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation in the Presence of Domain shift

Xiangchao Li University of Science and Technology of China
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Geometric Fluctuations of Principal Subspaces for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices

Yanlin Hu University of Science and Technology of China
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Stance Drift: How AI-Mediated Communication Distorts Our Message

Lingchong Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

CalCS: Calibrated Cost-Sensitive Classification under Strict Error Constraints

John Park The University of Hong Kong
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Advanced Data Science Techniques: Differential Privacy, Dynamic Treatment Regimes
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Federated Learning of Quantile Inference under Local Differential Privacy

Shuyuan Wu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Minimax and Adaptive Covariance Matrix Estimation under Differential Privacy

Yicheng Li Tsinghua University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Communication-efficient Distributed Statistical Analysis under Differential Privacy

Haobo Qi Beijing Normal University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Balancing utility and cost in dynamic treatment regimes

Yuqian Zhang Renmin University of China
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | New Advances in Data Science
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Constructive Instrumental Variable Identification and Inference with Many Weak Interaction Moments

Zhonghua Liu Columbia University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Words matter: Multimodal Suicide Risk Prediction from Veterans Health Administration Clinical Notes

Jiang Gui Dartmouth College
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Deciphering microbial community dynamics using cross-sectional data-informed NeuralODE

Tao Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Distributed Learning with Heterogeneity and Asynchrony: Representative Learning

Keren Li University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jiaolu Hall A (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Statistical Theory and Random Matrices with Applications in Finance
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Cross-Sectional Learning and Inference for the Stochastic Discount Factor

Xinghua Zheng HKUST
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Adaptive partial monitoring in non-stationary environments

Henry Reeve Nanjing University
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

Extremal eigenvectors of sparse random matrices

Yukun He Fudan University
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

Optimal Inference of the Mean Outcome under Optimal Treatment Regime

Xinzhou Guo The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Private and Federated High-Dimensional Statistical Inference
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:25 14:00-14:25 Invited Talk

Differentially private sliced inverse regression in the federated paradigm

Xin Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
2 14:25-14:50 14:25-14:50 Invited Talk

Adapting to noise tails in private linear regression

Lin Yang Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
3 14:50-15:15 14:50-15:15 Invited Talk

Federated PCA: Differential Privacy, Algorithms, and Optimality under the Spiked Model

Dong Xia Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Advances in Statistical Methods for Multiple Biomarkers and Data Sources
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Weighted Youden Index Maximization

JIALIANG LI National University of Singapore
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Provable imitation learning for nuclear fusion control

Wenlong Mou University of Toronto
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Stein-Encoder: A White-Box Supervised Encoder via Stein Identities in Multi-Modal Studies

Jiarui Zhang South China University of Technology
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Multi-Fidelity Quantile Regression

Yao Zhang National University of Singapore

Jiaolu Hall B (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Deep Generative Models and Their Interplay with Data-driven Decision-making
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Boosting as Sequential Aggregation of Generators for Vector-Valued Prediction

Jian Qian University of Hong Kong
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

New Frontiers on Performativity: Inference Theory

Zhun Deng UNC at Chapel Hill
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for LLM Inference with KV Cache Memory Constraints

Nian Si HKUST
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

TBD

Yuchen Zhou University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Transfer Learning and Robust Modeling for Structured Data
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Site Percolation Network Models for Event-Driven Systems

Yingying Li HKUST
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Cross-Semanic Transfer Learning for High-dimensional Linear Regression

Xuejun Jiang South University of Science and Technology of China
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Multi-Source Domain Adaptation via Alignment-Guided Distributionally Robust Learning

Zirui Wang Tsinghua University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Transfer Learning for Spatial Autoregressive Models with Application to U.S. Presidential Election Prediction

Hao Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Recent Advances in Statistical Genetics
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

All-in-One Toolkit for Biobank-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Management and Analysis

Zilin Li Northeast Normal University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

A Powerful Transformation of Quantitative Responses for Biobank-Scale Association Studies

Yaowu Liu Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

A Unified Mendelian Randomization Framework for Identifying Causal Risk Factors: Accounting for Measured Covariates and Unmeasured Confounders

Xianghong Hu Shenzhen Universit
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Bridging unpaired single-cell multimodal data for integrative analyses with SuperMap

Jingsi Ming East China Normal University

Shangwu Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-16 Local Time

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Statistical Learning for Complex Systems
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:35-10:55 10:35-10:55 Invited Talk

Computational and Statistical Asymptotic Analysis of the JKO Scheme with Unknown Parameters

Shang Wu Fudan University
2 10:55-11:15 10:55-11:15 Invited Talk

Structural Change Detection in Dynamic Systems

Wei Zhang Fudan University
3 11:15-11:35 11:15-11:35 Invited Talk

A Distributional Measure of Heterogeneous Variable Importance

Guorong Dai Fudan University
4 11:35-11:55 11:35-11:55 Invited Talk

Opportunities and Challenges of Sharpness-Aware Training for Overparameterized Neural Networks

Chengli Tan Northwestern Polytechnical University
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent Advances in High-dimensional and Financial Statistics
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Asymptotics of higher criticism via Gaussian approximation

Jingkun Qiu Peking University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

High-dimensional Clustering and Signal Recovery under Block Signals

Wu Su Peking University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Semiparametric Sieve Estimation for Survival Data with Two-layer Censoring

Yudong Wang University of Pennsylvania
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Granular Data: Laying a Solid Foundation for High-Quality Datasets, Empowering AI Applications

Yushan Xue Central University of Finance and Economics
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Multiple Testing Meets Modern Data and Machine Learning
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Unified Conformalized Multiple Testing with Full Data Efficiency

Xiaoyang Wu Nankai University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Gold after Randomization: Model-X Split Knockoffs for FDR Control in Transformation Selection

Yuan Yao The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Multiple Testing Meets Data Visualization: A Modern Perspective on Boxplots and Bagplots

Bowen Gang Fudan University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

A New Approach to Conformalized Model Selection for Out-of Distribution Testing

Zinan Zhao Zhejiang University

2026-05-17 (Sunday)

Dongwan Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

09:00-09:50 (UTC+8) 09:00-09:50 Local Time | Keynote Speech-Richard J. Samworth
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 09:00-09:50 09:00-09:50 Keynote Speech

Outrigger local polynomial regression

Richard J. Samworth University of Cambridge

Dongwan Hall A (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Model Averaging and Related Studies (MARS)
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Policy Averaging for Stochastic Decision Problems: Theory and an Application to the Newsvendor Problem

Xiangyu Cui Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Distributed propensity model averaging for large-scale data with nonignorable nonresponse

Fang Fang East China Normal University
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Double Descent and Emergence in Multi-model Prediction

Dandan Jiang Xi'an Jiaotong University
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

Semi-supervised learning using copula-based regression and model averaging

Dalei Yu Xi'an Jiaotong University
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent Advances in the Statistical Foundations of Data Sciences
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Misspecified Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Non-uniform Group Orbit Recovery

Anderson Ye Zhang University of Pennsylvania
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Stable Gaussian Mixture Black-Box Variational Inference

Zhengyu Huang Peking University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Estimation of Out-of-Sample Sharpe Ratio for High Dimensional Portfolio Optimization

Weichen Wang Hong Kong University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Transfer learning in nonparametric online learning problems

Feiyu Jiang Fudan University
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Statistical Learning: Theory and Practice
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Locally Private Estimation with Public Features

Yuheng Ma Renmin University of China
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Second-Order Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction with Applications to Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

Jing Zeng University of Science and Technology of China
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Metric conformal prediction based on the expected local radius

Rui Qiu Peking University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Combining pre-trained large models via localized model averagin

Ziwen Gao Tsinghua University

Dongwan Hall B (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Statistical Learning on Complex Data Analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Neural Wasserstein Two-Sample Tests

Zhenhua Lin National University of Singapore
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Ball Impurity: Measuring Heterogeneity in General Metric Spaces

Wenliang Pan Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Semi-Supervised Generative Learning via Latent Space Distribution Matching

Long Feng University of Hong Kong
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

Factor-augmented clustering tree for time series

Ting Li Southern University of Science and Technology
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Statistical Inference and Sequential Decision Making
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Slacked Empirical Likelihoods for Post-Criterion Inference

Yiyuan She Westlake University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Bayesian reinforcement learning framework for optimizing the BCI-utility of P300 Brain-Computer Interfaces

Bangyao Zhao University of Michigan
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Online Sequential Decision-Making with Reinforcement Learning: From Robotics to Human-centered tasks

Ran Chen Washington University in St. Louis
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Inference on Large-scale Partially Functional Linear Model with Heterogeneous Errors

Kaijie Xue Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Machine Learning and Statistical Inference for Complex Data
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Heritability Estimation via Genetic Similarity Representation: Theory and Biobank-Scale Computation

Jianqiao Wang Tsinghua University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Generalizing Experience for Language Agents with Hierarchical MetaFlows

Xin Cong Tsinghua University
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Conformal Inference for Minority Subgroups via Cross-Group Borrowing

Huaqing Jin Tsinghua University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Design-based inference for edge-level outcomes in directed networks

Hanzhong Liu Tsinghua University

Meizhu Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Recent Advances in Statistical Theory for Deep Learning
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Inference-Time Alignment for Diffusion Models via Variationally Stable Doob’s Matching

Yuling Jiao Wuhan University
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Heavy-tailed Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds with Applications to LLM Safety Alignment

Huiming Zhang Beihang University
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Symmetry in Deep Neural Networks and Implications to Learning

Guohao Shen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

A novel statistical approach to analyze image classification

Juntong Chen Xiamen University
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Recent advances in survival analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

TBD

Yongfu Yu Fudan University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Doubly Robust Estimators for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heteroskedastic Survival Data and Application

Fangyao Chen Xi'an Jiaotong University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Distributed Censored Quantile Regression: Convolution Smoothing and Communication Efficiency

Huijuan Ma East China Normal University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Dynamic-Centime:一种利用纵向数据预测剩余生存时间的动态预测模型

Chengfeng Zhang Southern Medical University
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Advances in Statistical Learning and High-Dimensional Statistical Inference
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

模拟学习方法论:理论、算法及应用

Jun Shu Xi’an Jiaotong University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Strongly consistent community detection in popularity adjusted block models

Danning Li Northeast Normal University
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Optimal Mixture-of-Experts Model Averaging for Conditional Generative Learning

Baihua He The University of Science and Technology of China
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Controlling the False Discovery Rate in High-Dimensional Linear Models Using Model-X Knockoffs and p-values

Zhengtian Zhu Tongji University

Meishu Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Statistical Learning Theory and Methods: From High-Dimensional Inference to Multi-Modal AI Applications
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

SMODER: Spatial Multi-Omics Deconvolution Anchored by RNA

Wei Liu Sichuan University
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Nonparametric Inference on Unlabeled Histograms with Application to Generative Uncertainty Evaluation

Pengkun Yang Tsinghua University
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Provable RLHF: A Consistent Framework for Offline Reward Learning and Value Function Learning

Lican Kang Wuhan University
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

Semi-supervised learning in high-dimensional linear regression

Ling Zhou Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Deep Learning Methods in Survival Analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Identification and Inference for Structural Accelerated Failure Time Models via Instrument Interactions

Xingqiu Zhao The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Neural frailty machines for survival analysis

Wen Yu Fudan University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Variable Significance Testing for the Deep Cox Model

Qixian Zhong Xiamen University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Deep partially linear transformation model for right-censored survival data

Zhangsheng Yu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Next Generation Visual AIGC: Controllable Generation, Ultra-HD, and Intelligent Design
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Towards Intelligent Story Visualization and Editing

Xiaodong Cun Great Bay University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Intelligent Design Generation: From SVG to Parametric CAD

Qian Yu Beihang University
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Research on Data and Methods for Ultra-High-Definition Visual Generation

Ying Tai Nanjing University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Multi-View 3D Reconstruction with Radiance Fields

Chunxia Xiao Wuhan University

Yanshui Hall (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Modern Methods in Statistical Learning and Data Analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Statistical ranking with dynamic covariates

Ruijian Han The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Prediction-Oriented Transfer Learning for Survival Analysis

Yu Gu University of Hong Kong
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

What Separates Useful from Useless Synthetic Data? Verifying Synthetic Data through Representations

Chendi Wang Xiamen University
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

Homogeneity Pursuit in Ranking Inference Based on Pairwise Comparison

Yuxin Tao Southern University of Science and Technology
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Robust Treatment Effect Learning and Fair Decision Making
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Deep Learning Assisted Variable Selection with False Discovery Rate Control

Changcheng Li Dalian University of Technology
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Maximin Learning of Individualized Treatment Effect on Multi-Domain Outcomes

Molei Liu Peking University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Double Fairness Policy Learning: Integrating Action Fairness and Outcome Fairness in Decision-making

Zeyu Bian FSU
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Identifying the Desert Decision Rule to Assess and Achieve Fairness

Ping Zhang Peking University
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Methods in Spatial transcriptomic data analysis
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

AI for dynamics network biology

Chunman Zuo Sun Yat-sen University
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Local-and-Global Information-Preserving Statistical Manifold Learning for Single-Cell Transcriptomics

Hongyi Xin Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Deciphering Tissue Spatial Heterogeneity: Methods for the Identification of Spatially Variable Genes and the Characterization of Spatial Structures

Xin Yuan Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Meta-Encoder: Integrating Multiple Pathological Foundation Models to Enhance Predictive Accuracy for Key Cancer Biomarkers and Spatial Omics

Ruitian Gao Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Jiaolu Hall A (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Frontiers in Interactive Generative World Models
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Towards 3D Content Generation and Understanding via Pretrained Generative Priors

Lu Sheng Beihang University
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Realistic Human Interaction in Virtual Environments

Yudong Guo University of Science and Technology of China
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Visual Affective-Cognitive Perception and Modeling

Zhiwen Shao China University of Mining and Technology
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

TBD

Keyu Chen Vivavia Inc.
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Advances in Intelligent Agents and Efficient Multimodal Models
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

The Evolution of Agents

Chi Zhang Westlake University
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Towards Efficient AI: Optimizing Deployment and Inference

Wangbo Zhao The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Analogy, Abstraction, and Reasoning in Multimodal Large Models

Xu Yang Southeast University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Towards Efficient Inference of Large Foundation Models

Bohan Zhuang Zhejiang University
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Recent Advances in Causal Inference and Latent Variable Modeling
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Bias reduction in g-computation for covariate adjustment in randomized clinical trials

Xin Zhang Pfizer Inc.
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Higher-order debiased estimators of general treatment models

Zheng Zhang Renmin University of China
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

Model-free Estimation of Latent Structure via Multiscale Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood

Ruiyi Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Incorporating external data for analyzing randomized clinical trials: A transfer learning approach

Yujia Gu Tsinghua University

Jiaolu Hall B (UTC+8) 2026-05-17 Local Time

10:20-11:40 (UTC+8) 10:20-11:40 Local Time | Statistical Analysis of Networks
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 10:20-10:40 10:20-10:40 Invited Talk

Common-Individual Embedding for Dynamic Networks with Temporal Group Structure

Yan Zhang Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
2 10:40-11:00 10:40-11:00 Invited Talk

Latent Space Model under Edge Contamination

Yongqin Qiu University of Science and Technology of China
3 11:00-11:20 11:00-11:20 Invited Talk

Likelihood-Based Change Point Detection for Sparse SBM Networks

Yi Ding School of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics
4 11:20-11:40 11:20-11:40 Invited Talk

Graphical Models for Mixed-type Data

Yuyang Liu Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
14:00-15:20 (UTC+8) 14:00-15:20 Local Time | Preference-based centrality and ranking in general metrics space
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 14:00-14:20 14:00-14:20 Invited Talk

Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Data with Partial Sharing

Doudou Zhou National University of Singapore
2 14:20-14:40 14:20-14:40 Invited Talk

Semi-supervised Clustering Through Representation Learning of High-dimensional Count Data

Mengyan Li Bentley University
3 14:40-15:00 14:40-15:00 Invited Talk

Multi-view Spherical Mixture Models for Aligning Partially Overlapping Feature Spaces with Latent Synonymy

Yuming Zhang Harvard University
4 15:00-15:20 15:00-15:20 Invited Talk

Efficient inference on high-dimensional logistic regression under class imbalance

Alexander Giessing National University of Singapore
15:50-17:10 (UTC+8) 15:50-17:10 Local Time | Advances in Inference for Modern Data Settings
NO. Beijing Time (UTC+8) Local Time Type Presentation Topic Speaker Affiliation / Organization
1 15:50-16:10 15:50-16:10 Invited Talk

Bias Correction for Semiparametric Regression Models

Stéphane Guerrier University of Geneva
2 16:10-16:30 16:10-16:30 Invited Talk

Studies in Label Shift

Yanyuan Ma PSU
3 16:30-16:50 16:30-16:50 Invited Talk

The implicit bootstrap: a percentile second-order correct interval estimation method

Mucyo Karemera University of Geneva
4 16:50-17:10 16:50-17:10 Invited Talk

Partial optimality and applicability for multivariate equivalence testing

Luca Insolia University of Geneva