Schedule of student project presentations
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Monday April 18:
Wednesday April 20:
- 4.10 - 4.23 Christopher Liu: Sequencing in Baseball.
- 4.24 - 4.37 Renjun Zhu: The Prediction of the Oscar Best Picture Winner.
- 4.38 - 4.51 Ling Yang: Gender Differences in Risk Perception.
- 4.52 - 5.05 Shichang Zhang: Rationality of Strategies in Game Theory.
- 5.06 - 5.19 Jin Cho: Probability theory in Monte Carlo Simulation.
- 5.20 - 5.33 Nadav Tadelis: Violating Rubin's SUTVA through Compositional Bias while using a Proxy.
Monday April 25:
- 4.10 - 4.23 Qianhui Wan: Multivariate Arabidopsis Project.
- 4.24 - 4.42 Kingsley Xuan and Leanne Lee:
Projections of U.S. Oil Reserves and Gas Price Stabilization.
- 4.43 - 4.56 Kent Chen:
Modeling Defensive Abilities in Major League Baseball.
- 4.57 - 5.15 Zhenyang Zhang and Xinyang Geng: Analysis on prediction based on different rating systems.
- 5.16 - 5.29 Tongzhou Wang:
Structural Analysis on Punctuations in Online Reviews.
- 5.30 - 5.43 Andrew Soncrant: MLB: Why we should use the bullpen differently.
Wednesday April 27:
- 4.10 - 4.23 Anshuman Dewangan: The (Facebook) Friendship Paradox.
- 4.24 - 4.37 Pui Fung Lam: Statistical Breakdown of the annual Big Game.
- 4.38 - 4.51 Rahul Shankar: Forecasting currency exchange rates.
Monday May 2:
- 4.10 - 4.23 Chuyue Frances Huang:
2016 Presidential Primary Polling: Accuracy and Primary House Effect.
- 4.24 - 4.37 Weidong Qin: Prediction of PM2.5 air pollution in Shanghai.
- 4.38 - 4.51 Grace Deng: Predicting the Success of Start-ups.
- 4.52 - 5.05 Albert Lee:
Predicting Economic Sentiment Through Analyzing Tweets by Multiple Machine Learning Technologies.
- 5.06 - 5.19 Xiaochen Yang:
Arbitrage Opportunity in a 14-Day Time Window Using Daily Signal.
- 5.20 - 5.38 Canzhi Ye and Shashank Bhargava:
Data-driven Analysis of NBA Draft Adages.
- 5.39 - 5.57 Grace Bian and Connie Zhang: Should You Avoid Certain Airlines When Planning Your Trip.
Wednesday May 4:
- 4.10 - 4.23 Justin Kim: Who Will Qualify to Represent USA Swimming in 2016 Rio Olympic Games?
- 4.24 - 4.37 Hanying Mo: Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy:
a Study on Airbnb.
- 4.38 - 4.51 Daniel Saedi:
Analysis of Hedge Fund Risk Metrics and mVaR.
- 4.52 - 5.05 Nicholas Hancock:
The Optimal Design of a Hypothetical Hyperloop System.
- 5.06 - 5.19 Shane Barratt:
Expectimax Applied to the Game 2048.
- 5.20 - 5.33 Ellen Chan: Presidential Elections and the Stock Market.
- 5.34 - 5.59 Dong Kyun Kim and Sukhyun Park and Ilsung Lee: The truth behind PGA tour players' scores.
- 6.00 - 6.13 Hanquan Yang:
The X Factor In Insurance Decision.
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