Joint2025 · Program Schedule (Dec. 17–20)

Dec. 17 (Wed.)

Time Dec. 17 (Wed.)
8:00–9:00 Registration
Venue: HSSB 3F
9:00–9:50 Welcome and Opening Ceremony + Group Photo
Venue: HSSB 3F
9:50–10:50
Keynote Talk
Chair: Hongyu Zhao
Speaker: Danyu Lin
Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines Over Time
Venue: HSSB 3F
10:50–11:10 Coffee Break
11:10–12:10
Keynote Talk
Chair: Ming-Chung Chang
Speaker: Jianqing Fan
Title: Factor Informed Double Deep Learning for Average Treatment Effect Estimation
Venue: HSSB 3F
12:10–13:10 Lunch Break (HSSB 4F)
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Activity Center (AC)
International Conference Hall
(3F)
1st Conference Room
(3F)
2nd Conference Room
(3F)
Media Conference Room
(3F)
Recreation Hall
(4F)
Auditorium
(1F)
1st Conference Room
(2F)
2nd Conference Room
(2F)
3rd Conference Room
(2F)
4th Conference Room
(2F)
13:10–14:50
Complex Analysis for Emerging Data
Chair: Jane-Ling Wang
Xihong Lin
Byeong U. Park
Qiwei Yao
Innovations in Causal Mediation, Privacy, and AI-Driven Statistical Analysis
Chair: Huixia Judy Wang
Peter Song
Marco Avella Medina
Jiayang Sun
Experimental Design
Chair: Cheng-Yu Sun
Ming-Chung Chang
Chang-Yun Lin
Chenlu Shi
Hongquan Xu
Spatial Statistics
Chair: Junho Yang
Pulong Ma
Junho Yang
Chun-Shu Chen
Big Data and AI
Chair: George Tseng
Tianzhou (Charles) Ma
Catherine Chunling Liu
Shulei Wang
Quantum Computing in Statistics
Chair: Andrew J. Holbrook
Chin-Yi Lin
Patricia Ning
Shi Jin
Hao-Chung Cheng
Innovative Bayesian Methods for Adaptive Clinical Trials
Chair: Ying Yuan
Ying Yuan
Satoshi Morita
Yong Zang
Challenges in Survival Analysis and Clinical Trials
Chair: Takeshi Emura
Jingwei Wu
Jing Ning
Zhaozhi Fan
Genomic and Multi-Omic
Chair: Marc Coram
Jingshu Wang
Zhijin Jean Wu
Jer-Yuarn Wu
Hua Tang
14:50–15:10 Coffee Break
15:10–16:50
Memorial Session for Prof. Shaw-Hwa Lo
Chair: Ray-Bing Chen
Jane-Ling Wang
Mong-Na Lo Huang
Xiao-Li Meng
Xihong Lin
Zhezhen Jin
Kani Chen
Henry Horng-Shing Lu
Statistics and AI in Omics
Chair: Hsin-Chou Yang
George C. Tseng
Yingying Wei
Ka-Chun Wong
Spatial Statistics and Machine Learning
Chair: Whitney Huang
Chae Young Lim
Whitney Huang
Bo-yu Chen
Hao Zhang
Novel Methods for Event Prediction and Subgroup Identification
Chair: Jing Ning
Nanhua Zhang
Menggang Yu
Jimin Ding
Recent Advances in Lifetime Data Analysis
Chair: Gang Li
Yu-Jen Cheng
Chung-Chou Ho Chang
Chyong-Mei Chen
Xin He
Recent Research in Statistical Process Control, Part I
Chair: Peihua Qiu
Claudio Borroni & Manuela Cazzaro
Amitava Mukherjee
Zhihan Zhang
Peihua Qiu
Survival Analysis with Frailty and Copulas
Chair: Takeshi Emura
Masaki Hino
Liming Xiang
Il-Do Ha
Takeshi Emura
Recent Advances in Reliability Analysis
Chair: Shuhei Ota
Shuen-Lin Jeng
Hung-Ping Tung
Nanami Taketomi
Shuhei Ota
Advanced Methods for Causal Inference
Chair: Hsueh-Han Huang
Ying Zhang
Jie Kate Hu
Cheng Zheng
Recent Advances in Bayesian Methods
Chair: Guanyu Hu
Yanxun Xu
Xia Wang
Ruitao Lin
J. Jack Lee
17:30– Reception (HSSB, 4F)

Dec. 18 (Thu.)

Time Dec. 18 (Thu.)
8:00–9:00 Registration
Venue: HSSB 3F
9:00–10:00
Keynote Talk
Chair: Hsin-Cheng Huang
Title: Inference for Interpretable Machine Learning: Feature Importance and Beyond
Venue: HSSB 3F
10:00–10:20 Coffee Break
10:20–11:20
Keynote Talk
Chair: Xinping Cui
Speaker: Amy Xia
Title: Shaping the Future: The Expanding Role of Pharma Statisticians in the AI Era
Venue: HSSB 3F
11:20–12:50 Poster Presentation
Venue: HSSB 4F
Lunch Break (HSSB 4F)
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Activity Center (AC)
International Conference Hall
(3F)
1st Conference Room
(3F)
2nd Conference Room
(3F)
Media Conference Room
(3F)
Recreation Hall
(4F)
Auditorium
(1F)
1st Conference Room
(2F)
2nd Conference Room
(2F)
3rd Conference Room
(2F)
4th Conference Room
(2F)
12:50–14:30
Recent Developments for Data Science
Chair: Rong Chen
Dennis Lin
Yingnian Wu
Samuel Kou
Hua Zhou
Statistical Innovations for High-dimensional and Time-Dependent Data
Chair: Ching-Kang Ing
Yingying Fan
Yan Liu
Hsueh-Han Huang
Chi-Shian Dai
Analysis of Complex Data
Chair: Shihao Yang
Shihao Yang
Jingyang Li
Shuo-Chieh Huang
Hulin Wu
New Data Analytics for Evaluating Complex Associations
Chair: Hua Shen
Soumik Purkayastha
Wei Hao
Margaret Banker
Myungjin Kim
Causal Inference for Survival Data
Chair: C. Jason Liang
Mi-Ok Kim
Erin Gabriel
Michael Sachs
Chiung-Yu Huang
Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis
Chair: Junho Yang
George Michailidis
Sayar Karmakar
Yi-Ting Wang
3D Protein Structure Informatics
Chair: I-Ping Tu
Wei-Hau Chang
Szu-Chi Chung
I-Ping Tu
New Developments in High-Dimensional Matrix and Network Analysis
Chair: Wanjie Wang
Wen Zhou
Degui Li
Xiaodong Li
Guo Yu
Recent Methods Development in High Dimensional Omics Studies
Chair: Chien-Ming Chi
Qiongshi Lu
Jiebiao Wang
Yuchao Jiang
Hao Feng
14:30–14:50 Coffee Break
14:50–16:30
Spatial and Environmental Statistics
Chair: Sylvia R. Esterby
Noel Cressie
Abdel El-Shaarawi
Nan-Jung Hsu
New Insights into Inference and Causality
Chair: Qingxia Chen
Zhao Ren
Huilin Li
Hongyuan Cao
Hai Shu
Recent Developments for Biomedical Statistics
Chair: Xiao-Li Meng
Mei-Ling Ting Lee
Gang Li
Chen-Hsiang Yeang
Chih-Yuan Hsu
Recent Advances in Optimal Experimental Designs
Chair: López-Fidalgo Jesús
Carlos de la Calle
López-Fidalgo Jesús
Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz
Ping-Yang Chen
High Dimensional Models with Applications in Biomedical Sciences
Chair: Hsueh-Han Huang
Yi Li
Grace Yi
XinZhou Guo
Wenqing He
Modern Machine Learning in the Big Data Era
Chair: Yichuan Zhao
Samuel S. Wu
Yichao Wu
Junhui Wang
Chia-Wei Lin
Classical Meets Cutting-Edge: Regression, Mixtures, and Joint Models in Biomedical Research
Chair: Xinping Cui
Zhezhen Jin
Szu-Yu Tang
Xinping Cui
Weng Kee Wong
Exploring Phenomena Through Mathematical Modeling
Chair: Masato Abe
Shota Shibasaki
Yoshiki A. Sugimoto
Wei-chung Liu
Frederick Kin Hing Phoa
Copula and Dependence Modeling
Chair: Takeshi Emura
Xiaoling Dou
Jia-Han Shih
Shogo Kato
Modern Bayesian Tools for Modeling and Inference
Chair: Yan-Bin Chen
Yuan Ji
Jingbo Liu
Feng Liang
Min Zhang
18:00– Banquet (The Garden Taipei)
Shuttlebus: depart from HSSB & AC at 16:50

Dec. 19 (Fri.)

Time Dec. 19 (Fri.)
8:00–9:00 Registration
Venue: HSSB 3F
9:00–10:00 ICSA Pao-Lu Hsu Award
Chair: Ying Zhang
Awardee/Speaker: Hui Zou
Title: High-Dimensional Clustering via a Latent Transformation Mixture Model
Venue: HSSB 3F
10:00–10:20 Coffee Break
10:20–12:00 Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Activity Center (AC)
International Conference Hall
(3F)
1st Conference Room
(3F)
2nd Conference Room
(3F)
Media Conference Room
(3F)
Recreation Hall
(4F)
Auditorium
(1F)
1st Conference Room
(2F)
2nd Conference Room
(2F)
3rd Conference Room
(2F)
4th Conference Room
(2F)
Statistica Sinica Special Invited Papers
Chair: Huixia Judy Wang
Jiming Jiang
Inyoung Kim
Frontiers in Statistical Inference: Dependence and Data Privacy
Chair: Yingying Fan
Zhanrui Cai
Ching-Kang Ing
Qingfeng Liu
Jinchi Lv
Advances in Causality, Reinforcement Learning, and Business Analytics
Chair: Chien-Ming Chi
Yifan Cui
Linbo Wang
Andrew J. Holbrook
Zhengjun Zhang
Advanced Methods for Novel Biomedical Data Types
Chair: Ming-Yueh Huang
Zhongming Zhao
Katherine Tsai
Ran Dai
Wooseok Ha
Recent Advancements in Network and Correlated Data Analysis
Chair: Hsueh-Han Huang
Weining Wang
Yunpeng Zhao
Lynna Chu
Tianxi Li
Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Menggang Yu
Qi Long
Xiaofeng Wang
Ying Ding
Baiming Zou
Recent Developments on Biostatistics and AI
Chair: An-Shun Tai
Lu Tian
Haoran Xue
Ji Zhu
Recent Advances in Clinical Trials
Chair: Chin-Fu Hsiao
Toshimitsu Hamasaki
Koko Asakura
Pei-Fang Su
Naitee Ting
Recent Advance in Statistics and AI
Chair: Ciren Jiang
Shizhe Chen
Xiucai Ding
Thuan Nguyen
Cynthia Juang
Modern Bayesian and Machine Learning Methods for Precision Medicine and Digital Health
Chair: Yu Gu
Xinyuan Song
Qingxia (Cindy) Chen
Zhonghua Liu
Yuan Chen
12:00–12:50 Lunch Break (HSSB 4F / AC 2F)
12:50–14:30 Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Activity Center (AC)
What is Obscure about Random Objects?
Chair: Jeng-Min Chiou
Yaqing Chen
Zhenhua Lin
Hans-Georg Mueller
Data Visualization
Chair: Chun-houh Chen
John Stevens
Kevin Moon
Kwan-Liu Ma
Han-Ming (Hank) Wu
Recent Advances in Nonparametric Methods and Their Applications
Chair: Yichuan Zhao
Hsin-wen Chang
Li-Shan Huang
Tony Sit
Changbao Wu
Extending Canonical Conformal Predictions to Meet the Practitioners' Needs
Chair: Tso-Jung Yen
Jiarong Fan
Shai Feldman
Etienne Gauthier
Nicolas Brunel
Recent Research in Statistical Process Control, Part II
Chair: Peihua Qiu
Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis
Chen Nan
Bai-Yau Yeh
Recent Development in AI
Chair: Hongyuan Cao
Young Hyun Cho
Wei Chen
Fang Liu
Jialiang Li
Recent Development of Statistical Methods in Case-Cohort Study Design and Dependent Sampling
Chair: Feng-Chang Lin
Jianwen Cai
Sangwook Kang
Yei Eun Shin
Haibo Zhou
Recent Research Developments in Neuroimaging Data Analysis
Chair: Chen-Hsiang Yeang
Todd R. Ogden
Tingting Zhang
Jian Kang
Causal Inference: Episode I
Chair: Ming-Yueh Huang
Fang Han
Dennis Shen
An-Shun Tai
Recent Developments in Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial Methodology
Chair: Lu Tian
Hajime Uno
Miki Horiguchi
Jie Chen
Ying Lu
14:45–20:00
Tour – Half-day Cultural Walk & Night-Market Feast
14:45–15:00
Meet & Depart (Academia Sinica)
15:30–17:30
Songshan Cultural & Creative Park
17:50–19:30
Raohe Night Market
19:30–20:00
Return to Academia Sinica

Dec. 20 (Sat.)

Time Dec. 20 (Sat.)
8:00–8:40 Registration
Venue: HSSB 3F
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) Activity Center (AC)
International Conference Hall
(3F)
1st Conference Room
(3F)
2nd Conference Room
(3F)
Media Conference Room
(3F)
Recreation Hall
(4F)
Auditorium
(1F)
1st Conference Room
(2F)
2nd Conference Room
(2F)
3rd Conference Room
(2F)
4th Conference Room
(2F)
8:40–10:20
Machine Learning / AI
Chair: Hua Tang
Hongyu Zhao
Hsuan-Yu Chen
Nilah Monnier Ioannidis
Marc Coram
Recent Advancements in Design of Experiments
Chair: John Stufken
Jing-Wen Huang
Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao
Wei Zheng
Cheng-Yu Sun
Causal Inference
Chair: Yen-Tsung Huang
Gary Chan
Caleb Miles
Yi Zhao
Kwangho Kim
Recent Advances in Network and Tensor Data Analysis
Chair: Biao Cai
Dong Xia
Wanjie Wang
Yichen Zhang
Emma Jingfei Zhang
Advances in Statistical Modeling and Inference for High-dimensional and Functional Data
Chair: Li-Shan Huang
Xin Tong
Jin-Ting Zhang
Tianming Zhu
Recent Advances in Clinical Trials
Chair: Naitee Ting
Jingjing Ye
Guangyu Tong
Feng-Chang Lin
Jingzhen (Ginger) Yang
Tom Jensen
New Advances in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Chair: Shuangge Ma / Hao Mei
Bao-Zhu Yang
Chien-wei Chuang
Hao Mei
Innovations in Statistical Methodology for Complex Data: Spatial Omics, Stochastic Optimization, Network Integration, and Microscopy Image Analysis
Chair: Yuchao Jiang
Qiwei Li
Jesus Arroyo
Abhishek Roy
Chongzhi Zang
Statistical and Algorithmic Foundations of Diffusion Models
Chair: Yan-Bin Chen
Yihong Wu
Changxiao Cai
Yuejie Chi
10:20–10:40 Coffee Break
10:40–12:20
Modern Functional Data Methods with Applications to Environmental Studies
Chair: Shih-Hao Huang
Toshinari Morimoto
Ruey S. Tsay
Yen-Shiu Chin
Subsampling
Chair: Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao
Min Yang
Lin Wang
HaiYing Wang
John Stufken
Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis
Chair: George Michailidis
Cathy Chen
Ying Chao Hung
Sumanta Basu
Recent Developments in Survival Analysis and Deep Learning
Chair: Kin Yat Liu
Kin Yau Wong
Kin Yat Liu
Qiushi Bu
Recent Advancements in Deep Learning and Graphical Models, and Model Selection
Chair: Jing-Wen Huang
Rong Tang
Xiyue Liao
Applied Probability
Chair: Yi-Ching Yao
Mei-Hui Guo
May-Ru Chen
Shoou-Ren Hsiau
Regulatory Advances in Clinical Trials
Chair: Guei-Feng (Cindy) Tsai
Takumi Aoki
Tzu-Chuan Lin
Frank Bretz
Qian Helen Li
12:20–13:20 Lunch Break (HSSB 4F / AC 2F)
13:20–15:00
New fronts on Machine learning
Chair: Jane-Ling Wang
George Chen
Jonas Mueller
Xiaoli Meng
Modern Advances in Learning, Robust Modeling, and Structure for High-Dimensional Data
Chair: Shao-Hsuan Wang
Hung Hung
Kazuyoshi Yata
Raed Al Kontar
Elio Zhang
Advances in Financial Econometrics and Network Modeling
Chair: Cathy Chen
Chor-yiu Sin
Mike K.P. So
Boris Choy
Recent Advances in Data Science
Chair: Hsuan-Yu Chen
Ting Li
Lead Science and Clinical Research — Career Panel Discussion
Chair: Haoda Fu
Dacheng Liu
Jingyuan Yang
Thomas Liu
Xun Chen
Lei Wang
Flexible Inference: Nonparametrics, Causality, and Large Language Models
Chair: Fang Liu
Jun Shao
Xiaowu Dai
Yuhua Zhu
Recent Advances in Network Data Analysis
Chair: Feng Liang
Joshua Agterberg
Hao Chen
Srijan Sengupta
Complex Data Analysis in Environmental and Health Studies
Chair: Zeny Feng
Jiahua Chen
Elif Acar
William Wong
Zeny Feng
Statistical Analyses Methods for Integrating Multi-Omics Data with Application to Personalized Medication
Chair: Maiying Kong
Qi Zheng
Shih-Ting Huang
Causal Inference for Complex Designs
Chair: Yen-Tsun Huang
Fan Li
Ruoqi Yu
Xinran Li
15:00–15:20 Coffee Break
15:20–17:00
Causal Inference: Episode II
Chair: Fang Liu
Fan Li
Yen-Tsun Huang
Shu-Chin Lin
Changbo Zhu
Frontiers in Knowledge Creation and Discovery
Chair: Chen-Hsiang Yeang
Masato S. Abe
Naoki Yoshimaru
Arthur Chihhsin Tsai
Tso-Jung Yen
Advances in Stratified and Error-Prone Data Analysis
Chair: Ting Li
Yichuan Zhao
Li-Pang Chen
Hua Shen
Recent Advances in Statistical Learning for Complex Data Structures
Chair: Hsueh-Han Huang
Mingxuan Cai
Yi Chen
Saifei Sun
Biao Cai
New Advances in Machine Learning and AI
Chair: Yan-Bin Chen
Shuangge Ma
Bin Nan
Innovations in Machine Learning for Financial Data Analysis
Chair: Nuttanan Wichitaksorn
Wilson Ye Chen
Chao Wang
Nuttanan Wichitaksorn
Sanghyeok Lee
Understanding the Biological Heterogeneity of Complex Traits through Omics Data
Chair: Hua Tang
Yun Li
Xiang Zhou
Wei Pan
Zhu Xiaofeng
Innovations in Survival Analysis and Clinical Trials for Biomedical Research
Chair: Cheng-Shiun Leu
Chia-Hui Huang
Yu Gu
Cheng-Shiun Leu