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The 5th Conference on
Experimental Design and Analysis
in Memory of Academician Ching-Shui Cheng

Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB),
Academia Sinica

December 4–7, 2026 Taipei, Taiwan
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CEDA 2026

2026 Conference on Experimental Design and Analysis

in Memory of Academician Ching-Shui Cheng

  Experimentation is one of the most common activities in scientific researches and industrial processes. An experiment is cost-efficient only when it is carefully designed and its results are correctly analyzed. The CEDA 2026 Conference will highlight the most recent advances in the discipline and demonstrate their applicability to practitioners in scientfic and industrial communities. In addition, it provides an excellent platform to share research ideas among senior mentors, junior researchers and fresh Ph.D. students/graduates.

NEWS

2026/10/29 The tentative conference program has been updated. [PDF ]

2026/10/15 Online registration deadline: November 16, 2026.

CEDA 2026

Speakers

Mingyao Ai

Professor

School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, China

Ming-Chung Chang

Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Xu He

Associate professor

Chinese Academy of Science, China

Ker Chau Li

Distinguished Professor / Academician

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

William Li

Chair Professor

Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, China

Zhaohui Li

Assistant Research Fellow

Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, CAS, China

Regina Liu

Distinguished Professor

Rutgers University, USA

Rakhi Singh

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Cheng-Yu Sun

Assistant Professor

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Fasheng Sun

Professor

Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China

Jeff Wu

X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor / Academician

School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Hongquan Xu

Professor

University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Min Yang

Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Bin Yu

CDSS Chancellor's Distinguished Professor

UC Berkeley, USA

Qiang Zhao

Lecturer

Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China

Wei Zheng

Haslam Family Faculty Fellow and professor

University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA

Chairs

Ming-Chung Chang

Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Chun-houh Chen

Distinguished Research Fellow

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Dennis Lin

University Distinguished Professor

Purdue University, USA

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Agenda

 

Day 1
Friday

December 4, 2026

Time Session / Activity Chair / Speakers and Talk Titles
17:00–20:00 Registration —
Day 2
Saturday

December 5, 2026

Time Session / Activity Chair / Speakers and Talk Titles
08:00 Registration
09:15–09:30 Opening Ceremony Ming-Chung Chang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
09:30–11:30
Invited Session 01
Chair: TBA
Experimental Designs Inspired by Professor Cheng’s Pioneering Works
  • Shu Yamada Revisit supersaturated designs: The origin and optimality
  • Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao Event-related fMRI designs: Perspectives from the exact theory of optimal design
  • Xiao-Nan Lu D-optimality of multi-level circulant almost orthogonal arrays
  • Shin-Fu Tsai Optimal order-of-addition factorial designs: Some advances inspired by Ching-Shui Cheng's pioneering work
11:30-13:00 Lunch Time
13:00-14:30
Memorial Session 01
Chair: Dennis Lin
Professor Ching-Shui Cheng’s Legacy in Experimental Designs

Speakers TBA
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00
Memorial Session 02
Chair: Chun-houh Chen
Professor Ching-Shui Cheng’s Contributions to Academia Sinica and Statistics Society

Speakers TBA
18:00 Conference Banquet
Day 3
Sunday

December 6, 2026

Time Session / Activity Chair / Speakers and Talk Titles
08:00 Registration
09:00–10:30
Invited Session 02
Chair: TBA
Optimal Designs and Bayesian Designs in Practice
  • Weng Kee Wong Modern adaptive Bayesian designs for oncology clinical trials
  • Ryan Lekivetz Applying DOE principles to statistical software testing
  • Steve Gilmour Multi-objective optimal designs in practice
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00
Special Session 01
Chair: Frederick Kin Hing Phoa
Title to be announced
  • Jeff Wu TBA
12:00–13:30 Lunch Time
13:30–15:00
Invited Session 03
Chair: TBA
Gaussian Process and Subdata Selection
  • Matthias Hwai-yong Tan Computer model calibration via Bayesian optimization based on a bi-fidelity Gaussian process model for transformed sum of squared errors
  • Ping-Yang Chen Gaussian process modeling with mixed-dimensional inputs and functional outputs for Bayesian optimization
  • Rakhi Singh Subdata selection for multivariate regression
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–17:00
Invited Session 04
Chair: TBA
Orthogonal Arrays and Design Theory
  • Xu He Super strong strength-3 orthogonal arrays
  • Sawa Masanori An introduction to wildcard codes: Universal bounds and orthogonal projection approach
  • Ming-Chung Chang Orthogonalized moment aberration and its extension
18:00 Conference Dinner (Invitation Only)
Day 4
Monday

December 7, 2026

Time Session / Activity Chair / Speakers and Talk Titles
08:00 Registration
09:00–10:30
Invited Session 05
Chair: TBA
Space Filling Designs and Computer Experiments
  • Hongquan Xu Efficient representation and construction of space-filling designs via a double stratification enumerator
  • Ying Hung Optimal simulator selection
  • Cheng-Yu Sun Sliding-window imbalance for space-filling designs
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00
Special Session 02
Chair: Frederick Kin Hing Phoa
Title to be announced
  • John Stufken Writing and Publishing in Statistics
12:00–13:30 Lunch Time
13:30–15:00
Invited Session 06
Chair: TBA
Experimental Design for Nonlinear Models
  • Dennis Lin Manifold regression: Design and analysis
  • William Li Algorithmic construction of integer-valued robust designs for nonlinear models
  • Emily Chao-Hui Huang Multi-Objective intelligent sampling for data-efficient learning from sparse functional data
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–17:00
Invited Session 07
Chair: TBA
Experimental Design for AI and Machine Learning
  • Xinwei Deng TCARD: Optimal designs with treatment cardinality constraints for LLM prompt engineering
  • Wei Zheng Coalition designs for Shapley recovery: Exactness query complexity and stability
  • Simon Mak ML/AI-accelerated autonomous experimentation with digital twins
17:00 Closing Ceremony
Humanities and Social Sciences Building
VENUE

Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica International Conference Hall and 2nd Conference Room

3F International Conference Hall & 3F 2nd Conference Room
HSSBHumanities and Social Sciences Building
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Map of Academia Sinica

CEDA 2026

Committees

Scientific Committee

  • John Stufken
  • Boxin Tang
  • Hongquan Xu

Publicity Committee

  • Xinwei Deng
  • Ying Hung

Local Committee

  • Frederick Kin Hing Phoa

Past Conferences

Conference on Experimental Design and Analysis 2023
Conference on Experimental Design and Analysis 2018
Conference on Experimental Design and Analysis 2016
Conference on Experimental Design and Analysis 2014