Title: A Fusion penalized logistic threshold regression model with application to diabetes prognosis

Lecturer:

      Yin Jianxin, associate professor, associate dean and doctoral supervisor of the School of Statistics at Renmin University. He got his Ph.D from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics of School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2011, he returned to China to teach at Renmin University. He is engaged in high-dimensional data analysis, graph model learning, text analysis, adaptive experimental design, spatial statistics, non-parametric statistics etc. Most of the research outcomes are published in internationally renowned journals of statistics and science (AOAS, JMVA, Stat Sinica, Sci Rep). His part-time jobs include Supervisor of China Field Statistics Research Association, Vice President of Computational Statistics Branch, Vice President of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Branch, Member of High dimensional Data Statistics Branch, Member of Uncertainty Artificial Intelligence Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Secretary-General of China Branch of International Biometric Society, and member of the Beijing Biomedical Statistics and Data Management Research Institute, Member of the 7th Committee of the National Statistical Textbook Review Committee. He also received the “Best Overall Contribution Award” for the Causation and Prediction International Challenge (2008). In 2015, He won the third prize of the 7th Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Ministry of Education.

Time：14:30 pm -16:00 am, 22 April 2019 (Monday)

Location：Room 105, Office Building of School of Statistics