2026 Statistics Week Taiwan

Time	Statistics Week Taiwan 2026
08:30–09:00	Registration
Taiwan Causal Inference Symposium Link 08:45–18:00
09:00–09:30	Opening Ceremony	Departure from AS Academic Activity Center → Feng Chia University 09:00	Invited Session 6 Artificial Intelligence and Applied Statistics 09:00–10:30	Poster Competition 09:00–12:00 ISI Executive Committee Meeting 09:00–12:30
09:30–09:40	Group Photo
09:40–10:30	Keynote Lecture I 09:40–10:40
10:30–10:40	Coffee Break 10:30–11:00
10:40–11:00	Coffee Break 10:40–11:00
11:00–11:30	Invited Session 1 Bayesian Methods and Applications 11:00–12:00	Invited Session 7 Applied Statistics and Time Series Analysis 11:00–12:30
11:30–12:00	Lunch at FCU 11:30 AM
12:00–12:30	Lunch 12:00–13:30
12:30–13:30		Lunch at FCU 12:30–13:30
13:30–14:00	Invited Session 2 High-dimensional Data Analysis 13:30–14:30	ISI Executive Committee meeting 13:30–17:00 Association Presidents Meeting 13:30–17:00	Keynote Lecture II 13:30–14:30	ISI EC & Association Representatives Event in Taichung 13:30–19:10	ISI Executive Committee Meeting & Association Presidents Meeting 13:30–17:30
14:00–14:30
14:30–14:50	Coffee Break 14:30–14:50	Coffee Break 14:30–15:00
14:50–15:00	Invited Session 3 Environmental Statistics 14:50–15:50
15:00–15:30	Invited Session 5 Methods and Applications of Survey Statistics 15:00–16:30
15:30–15:50
15:50–16:10	Coffee Break 15:50–16:10
16:10–16:30	Invited Session 4 Statistics and Artificial Intelligence 16:10–17:10
16:30–17:00	Networking Session Meet Taiwan’s ISI Elected Members 16:30–17:00
17:10–17:30	Shuttle Bus to Welcome Reception 17:30–
17:30–18:00
18:00–19:00	Reception (by invitation only) 18:00–		Conference Dinner (by invitation only) 18:00
19:00–20:30			Departure to Taipei 19:10

Mon. Day 1	December 14 Academia Sinica
08:30–09:00	Registration
09:00–09:30	Opening Ceremony Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan DGBAS Deputy Minister Hung-Kun Tsai Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica ISSAS Director Hsin-Chou Yang International Statistical Institute ISI President Fabrizio Ruggeri
09:30–09:40	Group Photo
09:40–10:40	Keynote Lecture I Chair: TBA Fabrizio Ruggeri On shrinkage rules applied to wavelet coefficients estimation
10:40–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:00	S1. Bayesian Methods and Applications Chair: TBA Jessica Utts Using Realistic Bayesian Priors: An Example from Testing Psychic Abilities Cathy Chen An Adaptive Threshold INGARCH Model for Evolving Regimes in Crime Count Time Series
12:00–13:30	Lunch
13:30–14:30	S2. High-dimensional Data Analysis Organizer: Hsueh-Han Huang Jianfeng Yao Title TBA Su-Yun Huang Function-on-Function Regression Through Separable Neural Operators
14:30–14:50	Coffee Break
14:50–15:50	S3. Environmental Statistics Organizer: Chun-Shu Chen Nathaniel Newlands Environmetrics and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Advancing the Mission of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) for a Changing Planet Wen-Han Hwang Unobserved Detection Heterogeneity in Distance Sampling: Bias, Robustness, and Gamma Frailty Models
15:50–16:10	Coffee Break
16:10–17:10	S4. Statistics and Artificial Intelligence Chair: TBA Paulo Canas Rodrigues From Inference to Intelligence: The Evolving Role of Statistics in the Age of AI Bruno de Sousa Statistics Education 2026+
17:30–	Shuttle Bus to Welcome Reception
18:00–	Reception (by invitation only)

Wed. Day 3	December 16 Feng Chia University
09:00	Departure from Academia Sinica
11:30	Arrive at the East Gate of FCU
11:30	Lunch at FCU
13:30–17:00 FCU-ISI Statistics Workshop
13:30–14:30	Keynote Lecture II Chair: Cathy Chen Nalini Ravishanker Statistical Analysis of Time Series of Precipitations
14:30–15:00	Coffee Break
15:00–16:30	S5. Methods and Applications of Survey Statistics Organizer: Martin Lukusa Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva The Importance of Survey Methods and Quantitative Surveys in Producing Fit-for-Purpose Public Statistics Partha Lahiri Combining information from multiple data sources using statistical modeling and methods Chieh-Yu Liu Using Dual-Frame Estimation for Telephone Surveys: A Simulation Study Based on the US NHIS Dataset
16:30–17:00	Networking Session Meet Taiwan’s ISI Elected Members Organizer: Cathy Chen
18:00	Conference Dinner (by invitation only)

Thu. Day 4	December 17 Feng Chia University
09:00–12:30 FCU-ISI Statistics Workshop
09:00–10:30	S6. Artificial Intelligence and Applied Statistics Organizer: Yang-Li Liao Matthew Shearing Statistical science and the broader data ecosystem – emerging needs, challenges, and opportunities for strategic collaboration Ayşe Bilgin Place of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Statistics Education Yang-Li Liao On the use of the hurdle LASSO for modeling excess zero count data
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30	S7. Applied Statistics and Time Series Analysis Organizer: Wei-Ting Lai Matilde Bini Minimum Wage Intensity, Labour Market Segmentation and Wage-Setting Institutions: Evidence from a European Macro-Panel Nancy McBeth Trusting Official Statistics in a low Trust World Shih-Feng Huang A Computational Inference Framework for Augmented Zero-Inflated Compound Poisson-Gamma Processes with Latent Jump Recovery
12:30	Lunch at FCU
13:30–19:10	ISI EC & Association Representatives Event in Taichung
19:10	Departure to Taipei

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Statistics Week Taiwan

Time	Statistics Week Taiwan 2026
Time	Day 1 Dec. 14 Mon. Academia Sinica (08:30–17:10)	Day 2 Dec. 15 Tue. Academia Sinica	Day 3 Dec. 16 Wed. Feng Chia University FCU-ISI Statistics Workshop (13:30–17:00)	Day 4 Dec. 17 Thu. Feng Chia University FCU-ISI Statistics Workshop (09:00–12:30)	Day 5 Dec. 18 Fri. Academia Sinica
08:30–09:00	Registration
08:30–09:00	Registration	Taiwan Causal Inference Symposium Link 08:45–18:00
09:00–09:30	Opening Ceremony		Departure from AS Academic Activity Center → Feng Chia University 09:00	Invited Session 6 Artificial Intelligence and Applied Statistics 09:00–10:30	Poster Competition 09:00–12:00 ISI Executive Committee Meeting 09:00–12:30
09:30–09:40	Group Photo
09:40–10:30	Keynote Lecture I 09:40–10:40
10:30–10:40	Keynote Lecture I 09:40–10:40			Coffee Break 10:30–11:00
10:40–11:00	Coffee Break 10:40–11:00			Coffee Break 10:30–11:00
11:00–11:30	Invited Session 1 Bayesian Methods and Applications 11:00–12:00			Invited Session 7 Applied Statistics and Time Series Analysis 11:00–12:30
11:30–12:00			Lunch at FCU 11:30 AM
12:00–12:30	Lunch 12:00–13:30
12:30–13:30	Lunch 12:00–13:30			Lunch at FCU 12:30–13:30
13:30–14:00	Invited Session 2 High-dimensional Data Analysis 13:30–14:30	ISI Executive Committee meeting 13:30–17:00 Association Presidents Meeting 13:30–17:00	Keynote Lecture II 13:30–14:30	ISI EC & Association Representatives Event in Taichung 13:30–19:10	ISI Executive Committee Meeting & Association Presidents Meeting 13:30–17:30
14:00–14:30			Keynote Lecture II 13:30–14:30
14:30–14:50	Coffee Break 14:30–14:50		Coffee Break 14:30–15:00
14:50–15:00	Invited Session 3 Environmental Statistics 14:50–15:50		Coffee Break 14:30–15:00
15:00–15:30			Invited Session 5 Methods and Applications of Survey Statistics 15:00–16:30
15:30–15:50
15:50–16:10	Coffee Break 15:50–16:10
16:10–16:30	Invited Session 4 Statistics and Artificial Intelligence 16:10–17:10
16:30–17:00			Networking Session Meet Taiwan’s ISI Elected Members 16:30–17:00
17:10–17:30	Shuttle Bus to Welcome Reception 17:30–
17:30–18:00	Shuttle Bus to Welcome Reception 17:30–
18:00–19:00	Reception (by invitation only) 18:00–		Conference Dinner (by invitation only) 18:00
19:00–20:30			Conference Dinner (by invitation only) 18:00	Departure to Taipei 19:10