The Department of Management Science and Statistics Research Seminar Series brings talented academic and industry professionals from across the world to share cutting-edge research with UTSA faculty, staff and students.
Research Seminars
December 6
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
“Variational Inference for Bi-Linear Mixed Models: A Study in Ideal Points”
November 15
Shimeng Huang
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Risk and Insurance, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“Bridging the Disaster Protection Gap with Index Insurance”
Benjamin Lev, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Decision Sciences and MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University
“My experience as EIC of OMEGA”
November 13
Daeyoung Ham
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
“Doubly robust estimation and inference for a log-concave counterfactual density”
November 11
Mingao Yuan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, North Dakota State University
"Statistical Inference for Community Structure in Networks and Some Future Research Problems"
October 18
Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Uniting Statistics and AI for Revolutionizing Medical Data Analysis and More"
October 11
Raymond Wong, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
"Balancing Weights for Offline Reinforcement Learning"
April 19
Yue Liao, Ph.D.
Department of Kinesiology, The University of Texas at Arlington
"Harnessing data from wearable sensors to inform behavioral intervention and public health research"
April 5
Linbo Wang, Ph.D.
Department of Statistical Sciences and Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto
"Sparse Causal Learning"
March 22
Aniruddha Rajendra Rao, Ph.D.
Hitachi America, Ltd.
"Functional Neural Networks - Deep Learning for Functional Data"
March 8
Zhibin (Ben) Yang, Ph.D.
Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
"Harnessing Complementary Strengths with a Joint Venture under Competition and Brand Spillover"
March 1
Mariel Lavieri, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
"Managing Patients with Chronic Conditions"
Feb. 16
Vishal Ahuja, Ph.D.
Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University
"When Does Collocation of Physical and Mental Health Services Matter?"
Feb. 2
Craig Froehle, Ph.D.
UC Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati
"Adding Fairness to Algorithms: Exploration of Theory and a Case Study from Healthcare"
Nov. 10
Jun Li, Ph.D.
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
"Competitive Pricing at Scale: Theory and Practices"
Oct. 20
Jian Cao, Ph.D.
University of Houston
“Linear-Cost Vecchia Approximation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities"
Sept. 22
Chul Moon, Ph.D.
Southern Methodist University
“Using Persistent Homology Topological Features to Characterize Medical Images: Case Studies on Lung and Brain Cancers”
April 28
Annie Qu, Ph.D.
University of California at Irvine
"Crowdsourcing Utilizing Subgroup Structure of Latent Factor Modeling"
April 21
Suresh Muthulingam, Ph.D.
Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University
“Does Legalizing Marijuana Degrade Operational Efficiency?"
April 14
Jason Parton, Ph.D.
Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama
"Analytic Framework to Improve Access for a State Medicaid Agency"
April 7
Hummy Song, Ph.D.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care"
March 31
Chung Eun Lee, Ph.D.
Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
"Dimension Reduction for Tensor Response Regression Models"
March 24
Guihua Wang, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management
"The Spillover Effect of Suspending Non-essential Surgery: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation"
February 24
Hyeon-Ah Kang, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
"Markov Item Network for Cognitively Diagnostic Classification Models"
February 16
Samantha Keppler, Ph.D.
The University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
"Stopping the Revolving Door: An Empirical and Textual Study of Crowdfunding and Teacher Turnover"
February 3
Lyndsay Shand
Sandia National Laboratories
"An Autotuning Approach to Doe's Earth System Model"
January 27
Min Wang, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at San Antonio
"Bayesian Seemingly Unrelated Regression Model for Process Optimization"
