2026 International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | From Statistical Foundations to AI Impacts: Risk, Robustness, and Representation

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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

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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

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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

2026-05-16 (Saturday)