Department of Statistics and Data Science, NUS

🎓 Congratulations to all our recent DSA and Statistics graduates! 🎉 Your hard work, dedication, and passion have paid off, and we couldn't be prouder of your achievements. Here's to new beginnings and exciting opportunities ahead. Keep shining and making a difference in the world!

Also featuring our valedictorian for this year, Mr Chua Ching Leong, who graduated with a Masters of Science in Statistics. 🌟

More photos can be found at https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/blog/photo_gallery/commencement-class-of-2024/

Dear DSDS Class of 2024,
Your big day is almost here! We can't wait to celebrate your achievements at the upcoming commencement ceremony. Get ready to make unforgettable memories and honor all your hard work.

See you soon! 🌟

Find out more about the ceremony here: https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/commencement-2024/

Upcoming Seminar
Estimate Vaccine Efficacy with Time-to-Infection Data
Date: 17 July 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Estimate Vaccine Efficacy with Time-to-Infection Data The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant morbidity and mortality, as well as social and economic disruption worldwide. In order to reduce these effects, a global effort to develop effective vaccines against the COVID-19 virus has produced various options with the effectiveness assessed on the ra...

Prof. Chen Zehua has been awarded the title of Emeritus Professor, effective from 1 July 2024. This title is conferred upon his retirement in recognition of his sustained and significant contributions to the University and its community. We wish him a happy retirement!

The Math and Statistics Orientation Camp (MSOC) 24/25 came to a close last week. Kudos to the team of seniors who spearheaded the event and welcomed more than 140 freshmen to our campus. May the bonds forged during the 3-day camp be the catalyst for an awesome start at NUS!

Department of Mathematics, NUS National University of Singapore, Faculty of Science

Sharing some highlights from the Faculty of Science's Open House and Alumni Homecoming on 18 May. If you didn't come, here's what you have missed!

1. Prospective students filled the rooms to hear by Dr. Huang Yuting and Dr. Vik Gopal, who spoke about the practicality and uses of and science in various aspects of life, work, and sports.

2. The Statistics and Data Science Society, along with the Mathematics Society, reached out to students at their booth.

3. We caught up with DSDS alumni and learned more about Moonbeam.co (www.themoonbeam.co), a start-up founded by one of our alumnus, Mr Varden Toh (DSA, 2023) which produces granola made from brewers' spent grains.

4. We visited booths from other start-ups, including YuCookies (www.yucookies.com), known for their slower sugar release cookies, and Soda Lemon SG (www.sodalemonsg.com), which creates upcycled glass products.

Yesterday, we welcomed a group of secondary and junior college students to the faculty for a day of interactive and insightful learning about statistics and data science. A special thank you to our incredible speakers and facilitators for sharing their knowledge and passion. We hope that this annual Enrichment Day will spark a lifelong interest in the fascinating world of statistics and data science for these students.

Repost from NUS Overseas Colleges on our alumna, Charmain Tan for making to this year's Prestige 40 under 40 list. Congratulations and continue to fly the NUS flag high!

"Keep having faith, tough times will come, but they will pass,. To know that we have learnt and grown is the most important thing." - Alumna, Charmain Tan, Founder of QuickDesk and Engages.ai. 🙌🏻

Congratulations to Charmain Tan for making to Prestige Singapore 40 under 40 list! 🎉🌟

Charmain embarked on her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 21. Although faced with initial setbacks, she established Quickdesk in 2014, aiming to simplify sales and marketing operations for small businesses.💪🏻 Building on her experience, she later founded Engages.ai in 2023, focusing on enhancing lead qualification processes and providing on-the-go customer query solutions.👏🏻

📖Read more:https://bit.ly/charmain-tan-40under40-prestige
📷: Prestige's Website

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Calling all DSDS Alumni!

Join us in celebrating the joyous occasion of the NUS Faculty of Science's 95th Anniversary in this year's Alumni Homecoming, taking place on Saturday, 18 May! Some exciting activities to look out for:

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Networking with DSDS Alumni - 12pm - 1.30pm

🎓Masterclass by Dr Huang Yuting on "Insights at the intersection: When data science meets economics" - 1.30pm

🎓Masterclass by Dr Vik Gopal on "Data Analytics in Sports" - 2pm

Register via this link now: https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/95-anniversary/homecoming/

Hope to see you there!

To celebrate the joyous occasion of .fos’ 95th Anniversary, join us as we bring together the best offerings of Open House for prospective students as well as a specially curated Alumni Homecoming programme.

Date: Saturday 18 May 2024
Time: 8.30 am - 5.00pm
Venues:
- Bukit Timah Campus (8.30 am - 12.00 pm for alumni)
- Faculty of Science Kent Ridge Campus (11 am - 3.30 pm for prospective students, 11 am - 5.00 pm for alumni)

If you spent your undergraduate/postgraduate days at the Bukit Timah Campus (BTC), join Profs Leo TAN (Zoology 1969), Bernard TAN (Physics 1965) and Lawrence CHIA (Chemistry 1969) to catch up with old friends while reminiscing over breakfast and a walkabout at BTC. We also welcome our alumni to Plant a Tree in support of at the Rail Corridor.

At Kent Ridge Campus, take part in a programme that is both informational as well as immersive. Our activities include Masterclasses showcasing excellent teaching, talks on popular science topics, tours and workshops, a showcase of research and innovation presented by our scientists, alumni and students, student sharing on the interdisciplinary College of Sciences and Humanities (CHS) curriculum, diverse experiential learning opportunities and student life, as well as carnival activities and stage performances.

For prospective students seeking to make an informed decision on your undergraduate course of study or alumni wishing to reconnect with your alma mater, the Kent Ridge Campus programme offers something for everyone!

Sign up now at bit.ly/NUSFOS!

Watch this space as we bring you updates in the weeks ahead!

Last week, the NUS Faculty of Science had the pleasure of hosting nine esteemed alumni at the Dean's Dialogue Lunch Session. The event was led by Prof. Sun Yeneng, Dean, Faculty of Science, together with Assoc Prof. Shu Sin Chng, Vice Dean of Student Life & Alumni Relations, and Prof. Adrian Roellin, Head of Department. The session fostered casual yet insightful exchanges among all attendees. We're excited about strengthening our alumni connections and look forward to more enriching gatherings like this in the future!

It was a blast at the inaugural MSc Statistics Gala Dinner last week!

Hosted by Prof. Adrian Roellin, Head of the Department, and Assoc. Prof. David Nott, Academic Director of the MSc Statistics program, the dinner was attended by more than 150 students and alumni. The event provided an excellent opportunity for students to network with their seniors, and for alumni to reconnect after graduation. Three of our alumni also shared their inspiring career stories with the audience that night. Here's to more events like this in the future.

What a memorable night indeed!

Upcoming Seminar
Cognitively Inspired machine learning for biomedical sciences
Date: 24 April 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Cognitively Inspired machine learning for biomedical sciences Our team at National University of Singapore utilizes newest discovery from cognitive sciences especially consciousness related knowledge to inspire next generation of machine learning and apply the methods to understand biomedical sciences. In this talk we focus on using method inspired by the glob...

Upcoming Seminar
Introducing the specificity score: a measure of causality beyond P value
Date: 08 April 2024 (Monday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Introducing the specificity score: a measure of causality beyond P value There is considerable debate about P value in scientific research and its use is banished in several prestigious journals in recent years. Particularly in observational studies where confounding or selection bias arises, P value as a measure of statistical significance fails to capture the causal as...

Upcoming Seminar
Distributionally Robust Halfspace Depth
Date: 26 March 2024, Tuesday
Time: 3 pm, Singapore

Distributionally Robust Halfspace Depth Tukey’s halfspace depth can be seen as a stochastic program and as such it is not guarded against optimizer’s curse, so that a limited training sample may easily result in a poor out-of-sample performance. We propose a generalized halfspace depth concept relying on the recent advances in distrib...

Upcoming Seminar
Bayesian modeling for individual-level fMRI analysis
Date: 03 April 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Bayesian modeling for individual-level fMRI analysis Since its advent in the early 1990s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revolutionized cognitive neuroscience by providing a non-invasive window into brain function. However, its utility for clinical practice has thus far been limited. Unlike structural MRI, which provides a three-dime...

Upcoming Seminar
Bayesian modeling for individual-level fMRI analysis
Date: 20 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Bayesian modeling for individual-level fMRI analysis Since its advent in the early 1990s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revolutionized cognitive neuroscience by providing a non-invasive window into brain function. However, its utility for clinical practice has thus far been limited. Unlike structural MRI, which provides a three-dime...

Upcoming Seminar
LIKELIHOOD-BASED METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION
Date: 9 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 10-11 am, Singapore

LIKELIHOOD-BASED METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION Likelihood method is a key technique in the realm of statistical inference, particularly when dealing with intricate models that encompass multiple parameters. When faced with complex datasets, likelihood method together with other statistical tools can be a creative trial for building accurate mode...

Upcoming Seminar
Spatial Homogeneity Learning via Nonparametric Bayesian Methods
Date: 13 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Spatial Homogeneity Learning via Nonparametric Bayesian Methods In this talk, I will introduce two novel nonparametric Bayesian methods for learning spatial homogeneity patterns. Our methods have the advantage of effectively capturing both locally spatially contiguous clusters and globally discontiguous clusters. Posterior inferences are performed with an effici...

Upcoming Seminar
Invariant Tests for Functional Data with Application to an Earthquake Impact Study
Date: 6 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm, Singapore

Invariant Tests for Functional Data with Application to an Earthquake Impact Study Motivated by an earthquake impact study, this paper develops new tests with several invariant properties for functional data. For multi-sample functional ANOVA (mfANOVA), a local mfANOVA test is developed to examine differences in a local neighborhood, and combining local quantities, a global mfANOV...