Program - International Chinese Statistical Association

ICSA 2010 SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Speaker: Dr. Donald Rubin, Harvard University
Location and Time: Regency AB, Monday, June 21, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Abstract: In my experience, when asking relatively successful people in any field, "What is the
future of that field and the future of workers in it?" the almost inevitable reply is: "The future is very
bright, especially if it continues to train more people like me!" In other words, "From my perspective, to
be more successful, you should be more like me!!" Of course, in many ways this response is simply a
statement about what has appeared to have created success for the one individual, but with enough such
comments from enough senior individuals, younger individuals may be able to create a sensible
perspective. In this short presentation, I will not deviate from this idiosyncratic approach, and will rely on
the combination with other presentations to create a more objective perspective.
About the Speaker: Dr. Donald Rubin is John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Department of
Statistics, Harvard University, where he has served as chairman for 13 of his 25 years there. He has over
350 publications (including several books) on a variety of topics, including computational methods,
causal inference in experiments and observational studies, survey methods, techniques for handling
missing data, Bayesian methods, multiple imputation, matched sampling, and applications in many areas
of social and biomedical science. Professor Rubin is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the
Institute for Mathematical Statistics, the International Statistical Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Society,
the John Simon Guggenheim Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for
the Advancement of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation. He is also the recipient of four of the most prestigious awards available to
statisticians: the Samuel S. Wilks Medal of the American Statistical Association, the Parzen Prize for
Statistical Innovation, the Fisher Lectureship, and George W. Snedecor Award of the Committee of
Presidents of Statistical Societies. Professor Rubin has lectured extensively throughout The Americas,
Europe, and Asia. For many years, he has been one of the most highly cited writers in mathematics in the
world, according to ISI Science Watch.
Speech K02-A: Statistical Issues and Challenges in Analyzing High-throughput
'Omics Data in Population-Based Studies
Speaker: Dr. Xihong Lin, Harvard University
Location and Time: Regency AB, Tuesday, June 22, 8:00 a.m.– 10:00 a.m.
Abstract: With the advance of biotechnology, massive "omics" data, such as genomic and
proteomic data, become rapidly available in population based studies to study interplay of genes and
environment in causing human diseases. An increasing challenge is how to design such studies, managing
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