News from M3 4007

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Apr 18, 2013:
A general tutorial in Montreal.

Feb 26, 2013:
Former MMath student Xiaohui (Shirly) Wang featured in a MITACS success story.

Jan 04, 2013:
Paper with former student Jennifer Nguyen on 'content-boosted matrix factorization techniques for recommender systems' accepted by Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.

Oct 11, 2012:
Paper with student Lu Xin on 'variable selection ensembles' on the list of 'most read articles' in JCGS.

Jul 01, 2012:
Now serving as President, Business and Industrial Statistics Section, Statistical Society of Canada.

May 16, 2012:
Check out Jeffrey Simpson's Globe and Mail column today, and our recent work which gives a mathematical proof of the same point. See also a related paper in a recent issue of Science.

Sept 01, 2011:
On sabbatical from Sept 01, 2011 to Aug 31, 2012.

Aug 17, 2011:
Short paper with former URA Peter Forbes on 'content-boosted matrix factorization' accepted by ACM RecSys 2011.

Aug 07, 2011:
Congratulations to my student Lu Xin, who's getting married this month!

Aug 01, 2011:
Paper with former MMath student Lu Xin on 'variable-selection ensembles' to appear in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics — see earlier version here.

Jul 18, 2011:
My research wins a 2011 Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award from NSERC.

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