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FRG Biweekly Meeting: Shahar Kovalsky and Fengyu Yang, UNC Math

2:00-2:10pm Lighting Talk by Fengyu Yang   2:10-3:00pm Informal talk by Prof. Shahar Kovalsky Title: Two ongoing Projects (tentative) Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss two ongoing projects. The first project, led by Connor Magoon, focuses on developing neural networks … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series: Andrew Liu and Wan Zhang

2:00-2:15pm Lighting talk by Andrew Liu Title: Public Perceptions of Synthetic Cooling Agents on Twitter Abstract: Amid a potential menthol ban, electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) companies are incorporating synthetic cooling agents like WS-3 and WS-23 to replicate menthol/mint sensations. This study examines … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series: Ethan Wood and Yang Yang

2:00-2:20pm Lighting talk by Ethan Wood Title: Analyzing Arsenic and Water Quality with MaxBET Abstract: The United States Environmental Protection Agency published a paper and a dataset focusing on measured levels of arsenic in community water systems (CWS) per county … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series: Maddy Vinal and Alex McAvoy

11:00-11:15am Lighting talk by Maddy Vinal Maddy Vinal Title: Hitting Probability Metric for the Analysis of Gene Expression Data on Directed Graphs Abstract: Metrics intended for undirected graphs, such as the shortest path distance and generalized effective resistance, are often used … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series, Professor Daniel Yekutieli

Professor Daniel Yekutieli Department of Statistics and Operations Research School of Mathematical Sciences (Schreiber #207) Tel Aviv University Title: Distribution-Free Bayesian multivariate predictive inference Abstract: I will introduce a Bayesian multivariate predictive inference framework. The basis for this framework is a hierarchical … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series, Professor Jeremy Marzuola

Professor Jeremy Marzuola Department of Mathematics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: New ideas on label propagation in networks Abstract: We will present some new ideas that is a work in progress on quantifying influence propagation in networks. … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series, Prof. Can Chen, SDSS and Math

Professor Can Chen School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) and Department of Mathematics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: The Kronecker product of tensors Abstract: Tensors extend classic matrix theory to account for multiway relationships, which … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series, Leyao Zhang, Biostatistics@UMich

Leyao Zhang Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan   Title: Optimal monitoring of infectious disease and inference using a transitional prediction model Abstract: The effectiveness of tracking delta virus infected cases has been compromised by at-home COVID test kits. An … Read more

FRG Biweekly Group Meeting: PI only meeting

FRG Biweekly Group Meeting: PI only meeting August 23 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm This is the first meeting in Fall 2024 semester. The PIs from both UNC and UIC will meet and discuss research and collaboration plans.

FRG Informal Talk Series, Prof. Chudi Zhong, UNC SDSS and STOR

Chudi Zhong School of Data Science and Society and Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: Towards A New Frontier of Trustworthy AI: Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithms that Produce All Good Models Abstract: Machine learning … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series, Prof. Guorong Wu (UNC)

Professor Guorong Wu Department of Psychiatry, UNC School of Medicine Title: Graph Neural Network Is A Mean Field Game Abstract: In current graph neural networks (GNNs), it is a common practice to apply a pre-defined message passing heuristics to all graph … Read more

FRG Informal Talk Series: Nathan Beaumont and Yunkui Pang

3:00-3:30pm Informal talk by Nathan Beaumont Nathan Beaumont Title: Predicting Brain Metastasis Distant Recurrence with Machine Learning on Surveillance Brain MRI Background: Brain metastases are a typical complication of advanced cancer, with an incidence rate of approximately 20%. Early detection of … Read more