Program
All events will be held in Room 2110 of the UCSC Silicon Valley building, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, except for the welcome reception and the banquet.
Wednesday, June 21
Welcome Reception: An informal social will be held from 5:30-7:30pm at the Embassy Suites hotel (map here).
Thursday, June 22
9:00am Opening Remarks
9:10am President’s Invited Address: Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University, “Cancer detection via the lasso and customized training”
10:20am Coffee Break
10:40am Contributed Session 1
Daniel Fernández, State University of New York at Albany, “Mixture-based clustering for ordinal data. A Bayesian approach using the ordered stereotype model”
Francesca Greselin, University of Milano Bicocca, “Robust parsimonious mixture models for fuzzy clustering”
Abby Flynt, Bucknell University, “Growth Mixture Modeling with Measurement Selection”
Noon Lunch Break
1:30pm Keynote Lecture: Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley, “On Gradient-Based Optimization: Accelerated, Distributed, Asynchronous and Stochastic”
2:40pm Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award Session: Paula Murray, Cancer Care Ontario, “Detecting Non-Elliptical Clusters”
3:10pm Coffee Break
3.30pm Invited Session 1
Joseph Richards, GE Digital, “Machine Learning Applications for the Industrial Internet”
Dhanya Sridhar, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Collective Models of Stance and Disagreement in Online Debates”
Kevin Zielnicki, Stitch Fix, “Classifying Text Feedback With Off-Policy Model Evaluation”
Friday, June 23
9:00am Invited Session 2
Christophe Biernacki, University of Lille, “Unifying Data Units and Models in (Co-)Clustering”
Jeffrey L. Andrews, University of British Columbia, “Addressing Overfitting and Underfitting for Gaussian Mixture Models”
10:00am Coffee Break
10:20am Invited Session 3
Donatello Telesca, University of California, Los Angeles, “Inferring Brain Signals Synchronicity from a Sample of EEG Readings”
Ying She, Climate Corporation, “Classification for Agricultural Image Analysis”
Abel Rodriguez, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Bayesian spatial model selection for detection and identification in chemical plumes based on hyperspectral imagery data”
Noon Lunch Break and Classification Society Board Meeting
1:30pm Contributed Session 2
Michael P.B. Gallaugher, McMaster University, “Clustering and Semi-Supervised Classification for Clickstream Data via Mixture Models”
Ron Yurko, Carnegie Mellon University, “Variable Selection for Consistent Clustering”
2:10pm Coffee Break
2:30pm Invited Session 4
Stephen France, Mississippi State University, “FlexCCT: Theory and Software for Flexible Ratings Analysis"
Brenton Blair, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, “Gaussian Mixture Models as Automated Particle Classifiers for Fast Neutron Detectors”
Brian Franczak, MacEwan University, "Subspace Clustering with the Multivariate-t Distribution"
4:00pm Classification Society General Meeting
5:30 Board bus for transportation to the Banquet at Testarossa Winery
Saturday, June 24
9:00am President’s Address: Herbie Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Classification Problems in Computer Simulation Modeling”
10:00am Coffee Break
10:20am Contributed Session 3
Beau Dabbs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “Comparison of Missing Value Methods for Random Forests”
Tahiri Nadia, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Classification of phylogenetic trees”
Kayla Frisoli, Carnegie Mellon University, “An active learning approach to record linkage”
Christopher D. Rainey, San Jose State University, “A Probabilistic Distance Algorithm for Student t Mixture Parameter Estimation”
Hans Friedrich Koehn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Attribute Hierarchy Models in Cognitive Diagnosis: Identifiability of the Latent Attribute Space and Conditions for Completeness of the Q-Matrix”
12:00pm Closing Remarks
