Grace Y. Yi
Professor Canada Research Chair in Data Science (Tier 1)
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
Email: gyi5-at-uwo-dot-ca
Grace Y. Yi
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Data Science (Tier 1)
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
Email: gyi5-at-uwo-dot-ca
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● 2023 Keynote speaker at The 4thWaterloo Student Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance
University of Waterloo
Navigating Survival Data: From Classical Analysis to Boosting Techniques
● 2021 Keynote speaker at The October Math Day Symposium at UNC Charlotte
Boosting Learning of Survival Data.
● 2021 Distinguished lecturer for The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) National Seminar Series
Learning Noisy Data
● 2020 Keynote speaker for The 2020 Data Science Week, online at Purdue University Fort Wayne
Making Sense of Noisy Data: Why and How?
● 2019 Keynote speaker for The third International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA 2019)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Making Sense of Noisy Data: Some Issues and Methods
● 2018 PIMS/CANSSI Distinguished Lecture
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Making Sense of Noisy Data: Some Issues and Methods
● 2016 The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award Address for The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
Brock University, St. Catharine, Canada
Variable Selection and Inference Procedures for Marginal Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Missing Observations
and Covariate Measurement Error
● 2016 A special session (1.5 hours) organized by The Accreditation Services Committee (ASC) for
The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), Brock University, St. Catharine, Canada
An Introduction to the Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data
● 2010 Keynote address for the CRM Workshop of "Missing Data Approaches in the Health and Social Sciences: A Modern Survey"
Montreal, Canada
Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data: Some Issues and Methods.
● 2010 CRM - SSC prize talk for The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Quebec City, Canada
Statistical Analysis of "Imperfect" Data - Handling Missing Observations and Measurement Error
207. 2023 The 2023 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Lisbon, Portugal.
206. 2023 The CMStatistics 2023, Berlin, German.
205. 2023 The University of Windsor, Canada.
204. 2023 Xiamen University, P.R.China, online.
203. 2023 Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angles.
202. 2023 The Conference on Statistics and Data Science with Applications in Biology, Genetics, Public Health,
and Finance, The Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
201. 2023 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Toronto.
200. 2023 The Second CANSSI-NISS Health Data Science workshop, University of Waterloo, Canada.
199. 2023 The 6th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2023), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
198. 2023 The 64th ISI World Statistics Congress, Ottawa, Canada.
197. 2023 The 2023 International Conference for Statistics and Data Science, Taipei, Taiwan.
196. 2023 National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
195. 2023 The ICSA International Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
194. 2023 School of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
193. 2023 The 2023 ICSA-China Conference, Chengdu, P. R. China.
192. 2023 Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, P. R. China. Online.
191. 2023 The 2023 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. A panel session.
190. 2023 The 2023 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. An invited session.
189. 2023 The 2023 Canadian Mathematical Sciences Conference, Ottawa.
188. 2023 The 2023 Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Conference, Raleigh.
187. 2023 The Quatitative Methods for Health Research Seminar Series at University of Montreal, online.
186. 2023 The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
185. 2023 College of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang University of Industry and Commerce, online.
184. 2023 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, online.
183. 2023 Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, online.
182. 2022 The Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management, the event of celebrating the 40th anniversary
of the Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, online.
181. 2022 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, online.
180. 2022 The Center for Statistical Science of Tsinghua University, online.
179 2022 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University.
178. 2022 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Washington, D.C., an invited session.
177. 2022 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Washington, D.C., a memorial session for D.A.S. Fraser.
176. 2022 Workshop of "Statistical Challenges in the Identification, Validation, and Use of Surrogate Markers",
Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) of Casa Matematica Oaxaca.
175. 2022 The 31st International Biometric Conference (IBC2022), Riga, Latvia.
174. 2022 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)-China Conference, hybrid.
173. 2022 Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, P. R. China. Online.
172. 2022 A colloquium of the Women in Math Committee at the University of Waterloo, online.
171. 2022 Winter 2022 Webinar Series, The CANSSI Saskatchewan Health Science Collaborating Center.
170. 2021 The Computational and Methodological Statistics 2021, hybrid conference.
169. 2021 Statistics Seminar Series of the Universit du Qubec Montral (UQAM).
168. 2021 Online BIRS Workshop, entitled "Statistical Methods for Computational Advertising".
167. 2021 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium. Virtual conference.
166. 2021 Statistics 2021 Canada Conference, online conference hosted by Concordia University, Canada.
165. 2021 The 4th International COnference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta2021), Hybrid Conference, Hong Kong.
164. 2021 The 2021 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting, online conference.
163. 2021 The CANSSI-NISS sponsored Health Data Science Workshop. Virtual workshop.
163. 2021 The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, online.
162. 2021 The International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods. Netherlands.
161. 2021 Purdue University Fort Wayne, U.S.A., online seminar.
160. 2021 Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, online seminar.
159. 2020 Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada, online seminar.
158. 2020 Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, online seminar.
157. 2020 Online Talk to A Research Group of Canadian Statisticians.
156. 2020 Actuarial Day of Canada Life, Online Event, London, Canada.
155. 2020 Virtual Workshop on Missing Data Challenges in Computation, Statistics and Applications.
The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey.
154. 2020 The Joint Statistical Meetings. Virtual Conference.
153. 2020 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Virtual Seminar.
152. 2020 Webinar Series: Data Science in Action in Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19.
151. 2019 The 2019 ICSA International Conference, Hangzhou, P.R.China.
150. 2019 The Center for Statistical Sciences and Mathematical College, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
149. 2019 The 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2019),
the Senate House University of London.
148. 2019 The Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis, USA.
147. 2019 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Canada.
146. 2019 The 4th ICSA-Canada Symposium. Queen's University, Canada.
145. 2019 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Denver, Colorado, USA.
144. 2019 The 32nd European Meeting of Statisticians. Palermo, Italy.
143. 2019 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
142. 2019 The Center for Statistical Sciences and Mathematical College, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
141. 2019 The 2019 ICSA China Conference. Nankai University, P. R. China.
140. 2019 The 3rd International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta2019). The National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
139. 2019 The 2019 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting, University of Calgary, Canada.
138. 2019 The Lifetime Data Science Conference, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
137. 2019 The 33rd New England Statistics Symposium (NESS), University of Connecticut, USA.
136. 2019 Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNC Charlotte, USA.
135. 2018 The 11th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2018),
University of Pisa, Italy.
134. 2018 Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
133. 2018 Duiwai Economics and Trade University, Shanghai, P. R. China.
132. 2018 Shanghai Mathematics Center at Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China.
131. 2018 The Center for Statistical Sciences and Mathematical College, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
130. 2018 Guangxi Normal University, Guiling, P. R. China.
129. 2018 Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
128. 2018 Huanan Agriculture University, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
127. 2018 Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
126. 2018 Huazhong Science and Technology University, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
125. 2018 The Statistics Center at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
124. 2018 The Center for Statistical Sciences and Mathematical College, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
123. 2018 Workshop on Statistics and Data Science, The Center for Statistical Sciences and Mathematical College,
Sichuan University, P.R China.
122. 2018 The 2018 ICSA China Conference, Qingdao, P. R. China.
121. 2018 The 8th International Forum on Statistics, Beijing, P. R. China.
120. 2018 Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and Department of Computer Science,
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
119. 2017 Graduate Supervision Series, University of Waterloo, Canada.
118. 2017 The Statistical Research Center at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
117. 2017 The Statistical Science Center at Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
116. 2017 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
115. 2017 The 39th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Moscow.
114. 2017 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Chicago, U.S.A.
113. 2017 2017 Conference on Lifetime Data Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.
112. 2017 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
111. 2017 2017 Spring Research Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.
110. 2017 Research Day 2017: 40th Anniversary of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
109. 2017 The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
108. 2016 The 10th ICSA International Conference on Global Growth of Modern Statistics in the 21st Century, Shanghai, P. R. China.
107. 2016 Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
106. 2016 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
105. 2016 Team Workshop: Advancing Methods for Studying Dietary Patterns to Strengthen Chronic Disease Prevention Research and Practice,
University of Waterloo.
104. 2016 The Second International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA 2016), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
103. 2016 The Latent Variables Conference 2016 at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
102. 2016 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Chicago, USA.
101. 2016 CANSSI Workshop 2016 - SFU, Vancouver.
100. 2015 Department of Biostatistics at UNC Chapel Hill, USA.
99. 2015 Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNC Charlotte, USA.
98. 2015 The 5th Canadian Symposium on Teaching and Research Excellence, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
97. 2015 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Seattle, USA.
96. 2015 International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) 2015 On Advances in Parametric and Semiparametric Analysis of Multivariate,
Time Series, Spatial-temporal, and Familial-longitudinal Data, St. John's, Canada.
95. 2015 The 30th European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam.
94. 2015 The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), Halifax, Canada.
93. 2015 Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China.
92. 2015 Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
91. 2015 Workshop in Statistical Finance, The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
90. 2015 The 2nd Workshop China North Area on Statistics and Optimal Modeling, Beijing, P. R. China.
89. 2015 Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beijing, P. R. China.
88. 2014 The Mathematics Faculty at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
87. 2014 Statistics Symposium, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary, Canada.
86. 2014 The Workshop on High Dimensional Data Analysis, Banff, International Research Station, Canada.
85. 2014 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Boston, USA.
84. 2014 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Boston, USA.
83. 2014 (H. Li and G. Y. Yi) Topic Contributed Session at The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Boston, USA.
82. 2014 The 3rd Meeting of the IMS Meeting Series, IMS-Asia Pacific Rim Meetings, Taipei, Taiwan.
81. 2014 The 2nd International Society of Nonparametric Statistics Conference, Cadiz, Spain.
80. 2014 The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
79. 2014 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
78. 2014 (F. He and G. Y. Yi). CANNeCTIN Biostatistics Methodology Videoconference Seminar Series, Canada.
77. 2014 (Y. Yan and G. Y. Yi). CANNeCTIN Biostatistics Methodology Videoconference Seminar Series, Canada.
76. 2013 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University, Canada.
75. 2013 The Department of Probability and Statistics at Beijing University, Beijing, P. R. China.
74. 2013 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
73. 2013 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
72. 2013 The Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Canada.
71. 2013 The 59th World Statistics Congress (WSC), Hong Kong.
70. 2013 The 29th European Meeting of Statisticians for the topic contributed session
on "Advances of Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis", Budapest, Hungary.
69. 2013 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Montreal.
68. 2013 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Maryland, U.S.A.
67. 2013 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
66. 2013 The Department of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
65. 2013 The Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and The Department of Mathematics and Statistics
at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.
64. 2012 The Department of Statistics at The University of Missouri, USA.
63. 2012 The Second Canadian Symposium on Teaching and Research Excellence, University of Waterloo, Canada.
62. 2012 The ICSA Member Meeting at The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), San Diego. ICSA-CANADA Chapter.
61. 2012 The Department of Mathematics at Sichuan University, P.R. China. Biased Estimating Functions and Applications.
60. 2012 The Second Joint Biostatistics Symposium, Beijing, P.R. China.
59. 2012 The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
58. 2012 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Boston.
57. 2012 CIHR Grant Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
56. 2012 The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, Washington D. C.
55. 2012 The Workshop on Composite Likelihood, Banff International Research Station, Canada.
54. 2012 (H. Li and G.Y. Yi). CANNeCTIN Biostatistics Methodology Videoconference Seminar Series, Canada.
53. 2012 The Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.
52. 2011 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph, Canada.
51. 2011 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Miami.
50. 2011 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, New York.
49. 2011 The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, USA.
48. 2010 CANNeCTIN Biostatistics Methodology Videoconference Seminar Series, Canada.
47. 2010 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University, Canada.
46. 2010 The First Joint Biostatistics Symposium, Beijing, China.
45. 2010 The Department of Mathematics at Sichuan University, P.R. China.
44. 2010 The Faculty of Statistics at South West Economics and Finance University, Chengdu, P. R. China.
43. 2010 International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Complex Data, Kunming, China.
42. 2010 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Indianapolis.
41. 2010 Statistical Methods and Life History Analysis: A Conference in Celebration of the Contributions of
Jack Kalbeisch and Jerry Lawless. University of Waterloo.
40. 2009 The Fields Institute Workshop, London, Canada.
39. 2009 Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Meeting, Windsor, Canada.
38. 2009 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada.
37. 2009 A discussant for The Workshop on Emerging Issues in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data,
Banff International Research Station, Canada.
36. 2009 (Z. Chen, G. Y. Yi, and C. Wu) The Workshop on Emerging Issues in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data,
Banff International Research Station, Canada.
35. 2009 The Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC.
34. 2009 (W. He and G. Y. Yi) The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium,
San Francisco, California.
33. 2009 The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
32. 2009 The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
31. 2009 (R. J. Cook and G. Y. Yi) The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
30. 2008 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph, Canada.
29. 2008 The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Buffalo, USA.
28. 2008 The Department of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
27. 2008 University of Electronic Science and Technology, P. R. China.
26. 2008 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey.
25. 2008 The Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
24. 2008 (B. Chen, G. Y. Yi and R. J. Cook) The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, Arlington, Virginia.
23. 2008 The Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
22. 2007 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University, Canada.
21. 2007 The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Salt Lake City, Utah.
20. 2007 (R. J. Cook, B. White and G. Y. Yi) The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
19. 2006 The 23nd International Methodology Symposium, Gatineau, Quebec.
18. 2006 The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
17. 2006 The Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), London, Ontario.
16. 2006 (Y.-H. Choi, D. E. Matthews, and G. Y. Yi) The Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), London, Ontario.
15. 2006 The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida.
14. 2005 The 22nd Symposium of Statistics Canada, Ottawa.
13. 2005 The National Program on Complex Data Structures (NPCDS) Workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto.
12. 2005 The Joint Meeting of the Chinese Statistics and Probability Society (CSPS) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS),
Beijing, China.
11. 2005 (R. J. Cook and G. Y. Yi) The Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
10. 2005 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University, Canada.
9. 2004 The Missing Data Workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto.
8. 2002 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph.
7. 2001 (R. J. Cook and G. Y. Yi) Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Atlanta, Georgia.
6. 2001 The Biostatistics Technical Meeting at GlaxoSmithKline Canada.
5. 2001 The Statistics Canada 2001 Conference, Concordia University, Montreal.
4. 2001 The Biostatistics Technical Meeting at GlaxoSmithKline Canada.
3. 2001 The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo.
2. 2000 The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo.
1. 2000 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University.
Department of Computer Science, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Western University, 1151 Richmond St, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7