2026 International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science

10:35-11:55 (UTC+8) 10:35-11:55 Local Time | Statistical Theory and Random Matrices with Applications in Finance

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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	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

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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

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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	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

2026-05-16 (Saturday)