Those on the committee of judges for the poster competition get to know one another at the start of the session. From left: Yingjie Qiu (UTSW), Kevin Lutz (UTSW), Kemelli Estacio-Hiroms (UTD), Juhee Lee (UCSC), Yun Wei (UTD), Murali Pusala (AT&T), and Hyunwoong Chang (UTD)
The annual chapter meeting of the North Texas Chapter was organized as the inaugural Dallas and Fort Worth Data Science and Statistics Day, or D3, which took place on March 28. The event was hosted by the department of mathematical sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. Those in attendance represented UTD, The University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, The University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and AT&T. The event consisted of a student poster competition, networking dinner, and talk by Juhee Lee from the University of California at Santa Cruz titled “Sparse Bayesian Factor Models for Feature Interactions in Count Table Data with Applications to Microbiome Studies.” The event concluded with awards and prizes for the following best student posters:
- First place: Jimi Kim (UTD)
- Second place: Zifang Kong (SMU) and Dona Hasini Gammune (UTD)
- Third place: Yanghong Guo (UTD), Yifei Wang (SMU), and Haoyao Ruan (UTA)
- Honorable mentions: Yaga Thomas (UTD), Fariha Taskin (UTD), Tingfang Wang (UTD), and Philmore Koung (UTD)
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