M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

Summer 2026

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
August
6	2pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Nahyun Kang	Tweedie Evolutionary Credibility for Insurance Pricing with AR(1) Latent Dependence
13	3pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Boya Chen	Case Study: Interpretable Hybrid Models for Pure Premium Ratemaking in Automobile Insurance
17	3pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Jiawei (Peter) Liu	Training LDA models with Measure Preserving and Discrete Maps
19	10am	LIB 7200 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Charlie Haoxuan Zhou	Age-Specific Regression of Event Times, with Application to Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
20	2pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc	Hung Do	Differentially Private Stochastic Block Models
24	3pm	LIB 2020 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Hao Wei Ching	Incorporating cohort effects into a nonparametric Bühlmann credibility mortality model
26	9am	Zoom	M.Sc.	Minrui Cao	FunKAN: Interpretable Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Learning
July
8	10am	LIB 7200 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Ky Potter	Scalable Statistical Methods for Complex and Heterogeneous Physical Systems
29	3pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Carter Phillips	Methods for Variable Selection in Weibull Mixture Cure Models
May
28	9:40am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi	Applications of nonlinear non-Gaussian deterministic filters in finance
6	1:30pm	Zoom	Ph.D.	Richard (Yichen) Yan	Statistical Methods for Treatment Decision Making Across Comprehensive Clinical Evidence Scenarios

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
April
13	10am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Sonny Min	Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Biological Aging
15	1pm	LIB 2020 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Roxana Darvishi	Estimating Complex Densities using Two-Stage Normalizing Flows
17	10:30am	LIB 7200	M.Sc.	Annie Yao	Quasi-Oracle Arrays
29	10am	Zoom	Ph.D.	Shifan Jia	Advanced Functional Data Analysis Methods: From Regression Modeling to Multimodal Learning
29	3:30pm	TASC 2 9705	M.Sc.	Jingyu Zhu	Fee structures in lifetime pension pools
March
18	3:30pm	LIB 7200 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Isaac Marchand	Heterogeneity in lifetime pension pools
February
5	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Golara Zafari	Three essays in financial econometrics

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
NOVEMBER
26	2:00pm	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Grant Hutchings	Computationally Efficient Methods for Emulation and Bayesian Calibration of Computer Models
OCTOBER
7	3:00pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Dul Norovsambuu	Investigating hyperparameter tuning for popular statistical learning algorithms
SEPTEMBER
4	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Matthew Berkowitz	Improving random (survival) forest predictions and estimates through targeted tuning and bias correction