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Ph.D. Defense-Hui Shen

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. Thesis Defense Friday, June 16, 2023 10:00 AM 130 Hanes Hall Or Zoom Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/93038814316?pwd=dGFhV1NxOGFCT1lOUWdXdjhTbEllZz09 Meeting ID: 930 3881 4316 Passcode: 156509 Hui … Read more

Ph.D. Defense- Jose Angel Sanchez Gomez

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. Thesis Defense Wednesday, June 14, 2023 9:30 AM 130 Hanes Hall Or Zoom Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/97731555474 Meeting ID: 977 3155 5474 Jose Angel Sanchez … Read more

PhD Defense: Nikolai Lipscomb

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

Optimizing Stochastic Models in Health Care: Appointment Scheduling and Disease Testing   We consider two different problems: appointment scheduling and asymptomatic disease testing. For the appointment scheduling problem, the goal is to assign appointment times to minimize a weighted sum … Read more

PhD Defense: Siqi Xiang

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

Binary Expansion Testing and Gait Force Analysis The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) gene expression data are very complex, reflecting many types of relationships between genes. Here we study pairs of genes and investigate potentially interesting nonlinear dependencies some of which … Read more

STAN advising session

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

Group advising session with undergrad advisors Will Lassiter and Remi Abayomi will be held on Monday October 17th from 5-6pm in Hanes 130.

Graduate Student Seminar: Qian Cheng, Puyao Ge, Nikolai Lipscomb

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

Qian Cheng 4-4:20 pm Aggregate Early Bed Requests for Admitted Patients in an Emergency Department Abstract: Long emergency department (ED) boarding is associated with adverse patient health outcomes and leads to ED crowding. The current practice is to request hospital … Read more

Ph.D. Defense: Nhan Huu Pham

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

NEW STOCHASTIC AND RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS FOR NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION IN MACHINE LEARNING   The dissertation consists of new stochastic first-order methods to solve nonconvex optimization models which cover many applications in machine learning. Firstly, we propose ProxSARAH, a new framework that … Read more

Ph.D. Defense: Yichen Tu

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yichen Tu Queuing Systems with Strategic and Learning Customers (Under the direction of Serhan Ziya and Nur Sunar) In many service systems customers are strategic … Read more

Ph.D. Defense: Hyo Young Choi

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Ph.D. Thesis Defense Public Presentation Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 130 Hanes Hall 1:00 PM Hyo Young Choi   Scissor for finding outliers in RNA-seq … Read more

Ph.D. Defense: Wanyi Chen

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Ph.D. Thesis Defense Public Presentation Monday, August 13th, 2018 130 Hanes Hall 1:00 PM Wanyi Chen   A data-driven approach for operational improvement in … Read more

CASO Panel

130 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, United States

Join us for a panel all about actuarial internships! Several CASO members will be speaking about their experiences, sharing how they navigated the application process, how they prepared for their internships, and what they accomplished through their work.   There will be a Q&A session afterwards, and we … Read more