Presentations

• 2007 June, "Nonparametric Variable Selection with COSSO and Its Recent Development," Invited Talk at Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS), Richmond, VA.
• 2006 Dec., "Variable Selection in Linear Models via Shrinkage Methods," Department Colloquium, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
• 2006 Nov., "Soft-thresholding Penalties for Variable Selection," Bayesian Group Seminar, Department of Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
• 2006 Nov., "Variable Selection via Penalized Likelihood Methods," Department Colloquium, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
• 2006 August, "Sparse Learning for Support Vector Machines," Invited Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle.
• 2006 June, "Support Vector Machine Classification with Informative Features," Invited Talk, AMS/IMS/SIAM Joint Summer Research Conferences -- Machine Learning, Statistics and Discovery, Snowbird, Utah.
• 2006 June, "Support Vector Machine Classification with Informative Features," Invited Talk, INFORMS International Conference, Hong Kong, China.
• 2005 August, "Variable Selection for Support Vector Machines via COSSO," ISI Invited Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN.
• 2005 July, "Variable Selection for SVM via Spline ANOVA," Invited Talk, Joint Meeting of CSPS/IMS, Beijing, China.
• 2005 May, "Multiclass proximal support vector machines," Department Colloquium, Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Duke University, Durham, NC.
• 2004 Nov., "Variable selection via COSSO in nonparametric regression models", Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach workshop, Germany.
• 2004 Nov., "Component selection and smoothing operator in nonparametric models", Department Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA.
• 2004 Sep., "Component selection and smoothing operator in SS-ANOVA", Department Colloquium, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Raleigh, NC.
• 2004 August, “Variable Selection in Nonparametric Statistical Models,” IMS Invited Talk at Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, August, 2004.
• 2004 July, "Variable selection in nonparametric statistical models", Invited Talk, International Federation of Classification Societies meeting, Chicago, IL.
• 2004 May, "Unified multi-class proximal support vector machines", Invited Talk, Interface: computational biology and bioinformatics, 36th Symposium on the interface, Baltimore.
• 2004 March, "Component selection and smoothing in smoothing spline analysis of variance models", contributed talk, IBS-ENAR, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 2004 Feb., "Compactly supported RBF kernels", Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Data Mining and Machine Learning Intermediate Workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC.
• 2003 Sep., "Compactly Supported Kernels", Poster, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Data Mining and Machine Learning workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC.
• 2003 August, "Statistical machine learning", Department Colloquium, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
• 2003 August, "Variable selection in spline ANOVA models", Discussion for Wald Lecture (II) given by Professor Grace Wahba, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Fransisco, CA.
• 2003 August, "Variable selection for support vector machines", IMS Invited Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Fransisco, CA.
• 2003 June, "Nonparametric regression variable selection -- Component Selection and Smoothing Operator (COSSO)", Invited Talk, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Stochastic Computation Final Workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC.
• 2003 June, "Variable selection for support vector machines via basis pursuit", Invited Talk, AMS/IMS/SIAM Joint Summer Research Conferences -- Machine Learning, Statistics and Discovery, Snowbird, Utah.
• 2003 Jan. "Nonparametric variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Poster, IMS mini-meeting on Functional Data Analysis, Gainesville, FL.
• 2002 Sep. "Nonparametric variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit", Invited Colloquium, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham.
• 2002 Mar. "Nonparametric variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit with Applications in Medical Studies", Contributed Talk, ENAR, Arlington, VA.
• 2001 Oct. "Variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Department of Decision Science and Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytech Institute.
• 2002 Feb. "Variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University.
• 2002 Feb. "Variable selection via Likelihood Basis Pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
• 2002 Jan. "Variable selection via likelihood basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Department of Statistics, University of California - Santa Barbara.
• 2001 Nov. "Variable selection via basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Department Colloquium, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison.
• 2001 Aug. "Variable selection via basis pursuit for non-Gaussian data", Contributed Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta.