The Berkeley Statistics Annual Research Symposium (BSTARS) brings together the Berkeley Statistics community and its industry partners to survey the latest research developments in the department, emphasizing possible applications to statistical problems encountered in industry.

BSTARS 2024

November 14, 2024 - 1 p.m. -  Memorial Stadium, UC Berkeley

The fall 2024 conference features a faculty keynote from CDSS Chancellor's Distinguished Professor Professor Bin Yu, talks by faculty, students, and industry members, a student poster session, and a networking reception. 

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• 12:30-1:00 Registration
• 1:00-1:10. Introductory Remarks - Chair Haiyan Huang 
• 1:10-1:40. Faculty Talk + Q&A –  Michael Mahoney, "Model Selection And Ensembling When There Are More Parameters Than Data"
• 1:40-1:50. Break
• 1:50-2:30. Recruiter Tabling
• 2:30-3:00. Faculty Talk + Q&A – Amanda Coston, "Validity & algorithmic decision making"
• 3:00-3:45. Student research lightning talks 
  • Alexander Asemota, "Quantitative Analysis for Genotype Probabilities: Investigating DNA Forensics"
  • Erez Buchweitz and Joao Vitor Romano, "Biases in Proper Loss Functions for Probabilistic Forecasting"
  • Tianyu Guo, "Active-Dormant Attention Heads: Mechanistically Demystifying Extreme-Token Phenomena in LLMs"
  • Yaxuan Huang, "Unifying $L_2$ sensitivity analyses for regression and weighting estimators"
  • Daniel Raban, "How should we aggregate ratings? Accounting for personal rating scales via Wasserstein barycenters"
• 3:45-3:55. Industry talk: Scott Shi, Co-founder & CTO at ZettaBlock
• 3:55-4:00. Break
• 4:00-5:00. Keynote Talk + Q&A – CDSS Chancellor's Distinguished Professor Bin Yu, "Veridical Data Science and Alignment in Medical AI." Opening remarks from Distinguished Professor and Dean, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jennifer Chayes and Professor and Executive Associate Dean Sandrine Dudoit 
• 5:00-6:00. Reception and Recruiter Tabling

Sponsorship

We are pleased to work with corporate partners to sponsor our annual Berkeley Statistics Annual Research Symposium (BSTARS).

The suggested donation to become a BSTARS sponsor is $5,000. The benefits The benefits include:

• Recognition by the chair and speakers in remarks 
• Recognition in the programs, communications, and other locations 
• Preferred access and guaranteed admission 
• Industry speaking opportunity 
• Company information/recruiting table 
• Other opportunities: sponsor reception, keynote, AV, etc…

Ready to sponsor BSTARS?

Please contact Alex Coughlin, the Director of Communications and External Relations, if you are interested or have any questions.

Note: in the future, BSTARS will be held in the fall.

2024 BSTARS Sponsors

Upcoming and Previous BSTARS Programs