Friday, November 6th, 2026

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET)

Virtual Video Presentation Session

Presenters will be standing by from 11:00 am - 11:50 am (ET) to answer your questions. If you would like to post a comment, navigate to the presenter's recording on YouTube and leave a question.

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12:00 p.m. – 12:05 p.m. (ET)

Opening Remarks

By Yiqi (Annie) Tang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Colby College

12:05 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (ET)

Plenary Talks by USPROC Award Winners

12:05 - 12:15: Wenwan Xu and Yihan Xu, University of Virginia

Regression Analysis of the U.S. Teen Birth Rate in 2023

12:17 - 12:27: Vaidehi Srinivasan, Ameya Teli, and Maren Rusk, Pomona College

Uneven Ground: Spatial Patterns in California School District Funding

12:29 - 12:39: Kenzo Hubert and Riddhik Basu, North Carolina State University, and Alice Zhong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Capabilities to Measure Communities: Employing the Capability Approach to Redistrict North Carolina

12:41 - 12:51: Kikken Schleusner and Jalen Black, Western Washington University

Modeling Sockeye Salmon Populations in the Pilgrim River, Alaska, in Relation to Dynamic Fishery Management Strategies

12:53 - 13:03: Xi Wang, Yale University, Kritika Pandit and Nicholas Chang, Carleton College

Getting Uncertainty Right: Simulation study on evaluation of Bootstrap Methods for Clustered Forensic Firearm Examination Data 

13:05 - 13:15: Chelsea Wang, Amherst College

Two Chances are Better than One: Comparing the Performance of Doubly Robust Estimators

13:17 - 13:27: Liyandza Magongo, St Lawrence University

Comparing Attacking Output Between Strikers and Wingers in the 2024 & 25 English Premier League Season

13:29 - 13:39: Sophia Garganta, Elon University

Social Media, Age, and Mental Well-Being: Replicating an Age-Moderation Claim Using the General Social Survey 

13:41 - 13:51: Federica Domecq Lacroze, Pomona College

Leveraging Gaussian Process Regression for Perfect Golf

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Keynote Address

Title: Don’t Just Play in the Backyard: Drive Data Impact by Wearing Many Hats

Presented by: Kelly McConville, Director, Dominguez Center for Data Science, Bucknell University

Abstract: John Tukey famously said, “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard.”  Playing is a great start, but real impact happens when you help improve those backyards.  In this talk, we will explore the essential roles a data scientist should embrace to ensure their work drives tangible change.  From math nerd and coder to applied statistician and trainer, wearing these many hats ensures you become an indispensable partner in team science. 

Moderators: Ignacio Feged and Maya Singh, Williams College 

 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. (ET)

Graduate School Information Session

Phyllis Ju, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College

Junu Lee, Ph.D. Student in Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

Saima Rahman, M.S. Student in Biostatistics, Boston University

Federica Zoe Ricci, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Swarthmore College

Moderators: Sid Prakash and Owen Soccorso, Wake Forest University

3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Panel Discussion About Career

Xiaoxia Champon, Mathematical Statistician; FDA

Sam Morris, Staff Data Scientist; Waymo

Maryjane Pennington, Growth Strategy Analyst; Charlie Health 

Chelsea Robalino, Biostatistician; Emmes

Moderators: Bhuwan Bhandari and Andrew Scott, Colby College

4:30 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. (ET)

Closing Remarks

By Shaoyang Ning, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Williams College