66th ISI World Statistics Congress

IASS President's Special Invited Session

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Jiming Jiang

Bayesian Methods for Complex Biological Data: Spatial Models, Regression, and Networks

Participants:

• Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani
• Francesco Stingo
• Alejandra Avalos Pacheco

Let’s Talk Power Skills

Category: Women in Statistics

Participants:

‘The Future of Official Statistics: Strategic Leadership and Organisational Transformation in the Age of AI’

Statistical Advances in Time Series Modeling and Their Applications

Participants:

• Sévérien Nkurunziza
• Bruno Rémillard
• Taoufik Bouezmarni
• Sophie Dabo
• Solym Manou-Abi

The Need to Incorporate Subnational Data in Future Replacements for SDG

Participants:

• Ms Haoyi Chen

Statistics for Zambia

Participants:

• Saralees Nadarajah
• Victor Nawa
• Alex Samuel Mungo

Transforming Official Statistics in Africa: Innovation, Integration and Trust

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Etambuyu Lukonga
• Faryal Ahmed
• Abdou Diouf
• Ivan Murenzi

Statistical AI for the environment and health

Category: The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)

Participants:

• Nathaniel Newlands
• Elif Acar
• Edward Boone
• Jia Wei He
• Amanjot Bhullar

Beyond Traditional Surveys: Leveraging Mobile Phone Data and Geospatial Technologies for Official Statistics in West Africa

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Felicien Donat Accrombessy
• Franck MIGONE
• Guema Dyen
• Abdoullahi Beidou
• Djibril Ndoye

Small Area Estimation for emerging well-being challenges in the Global South

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Aldo Gardini
• Gaia Bertarelli
• Lorenzo Mori
• Camilla Salvatore

Advanced Statistical techniques for high throughput data integration analysis

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Sandra Safo
• Yang Ni
• Yue Zhao

Teaching and Employing Data Scientists in the Era of AI

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Andrea Villanes
• Susan Simmons
• Kate Bagley

On regression and prediction methods involving non-euclidean observations.

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Vincent Monsan
• Florence Nicol
• Djack Guy Aude Kouadio
• Wiem Nefzi
• Papa Alioune Meïssa Mbaye
• Gaetan Otogo
• Tanon Lambert Kadjo
• Marcellin Brou

New methodologies for finite population inference with applications to wealth estimation

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Ilja Kristian Kavonius
• Professor David Haziza
• Jay Breidt
• James Brown
• Silvia De Nicolò
• Gaia Bertarelli

Measuring wealth disparities through Distributional Wealth Accounts: methods, data integration and international experiences

Participants:

• Ilja Kristian Kavonius
• Prof. Maria Giovanna Ranalli
• Mr Jorrit Zwijnenburg

Explainable Statistical Learning: Interpretable Models for Complex Data

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Manuele Leonelli
• Dimitrios Karlis
• Maria Durban
• MARIA IANNARIO

Beyond the Ballot Box: Statistical Perspectives on Voter Apathy and Electoral Disengagement in Developing Nations

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Olusanya Elisa Olubusoye
• ADENIRAN adefemi
• Olaoluwa yaya
• Sani Ibrahim

IMPACT OF DISTRICT NUTRITION COORDINATORS ON NUTRITION: A CASE STUDY OF ZAMBIA

Category: Young Statisticians

Participants:

• BRENDA NAKAMBA
• KELVIN MULUNGU

How to process biomedical signals in the era of AI

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Wensheng Guo
• Kun Huang
• Ping Ma

Who Counts? Measuring and Closing Inclusion Gaps in Official Statistics

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Ms Haoyi Chen
• Francesca Perucci
• Elizabeth Lockwood
• Jamison Henninger
• Omar Seidu
• Risenga Maluleke
• Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Artificial intelligence for agricultural censuses in the context of the WCA 2030

Category: Committee on Agricultural Statistics

Participants:

• Jose Rosero Moncayo
• Mulbah Kromah
• Dramane Bako
• Myagmarkhand Erdene-Ochir
• Daniyar Bustaev
• Nilton Vicente
• Michael Rahija

Embracing the Bayesian Paradigm: Innovations and Challenges in Global Drug Development

Participants:

• Yong Zang
• Ick Hoon Jin
• Suyu Liu
• Fangrong Yan

Carbon statistics, carbon disclosure and carbon accounting

Small Area Estimation for Disaggregated Health Statistics and Decision-Making Using Government Data in sub-Saharan Africa

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Evaristar Kudowa
• Bedilu Ejigu
• Seyifemickael Amare
• Dr Ngianga II Kandala

From Correlation to Causation: Beyond Randomised Trials Using Government Health Surveys and Routine Data for Public Health Policy Decision Making

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Geoffrey Singini
• Getnet B Begashaw
• Nada Abdelatif
• Albert Whata
• Din Chen

Some approximations to the Copenhagen Framework of Citizen Data: IBGE’s experiences at the various points of the data value chain

Category: National Institute of Statistics and Geography

Participants:

• Bianca Walsh
• CLAUDIO STENNER
• Leticia Giannella
• Guilherme da Costa Garcia
• Marta Antunes
• Francesca Perucci
• Meriem ouyahia

Risk in African Contexts: Statistical Challenges, Local Realities and Emerging Directions

Category: Committee on Risk Analysis

Participants:

• Élio Taero
• Inácio Retene
• Castigo Perruque
• Nelson Jamba
• Youssef El Foutayeni El Foutayeni

Risk and Resilience in Intelligent Learning Environments: Learning Analytics and AI in Education

Category: Committee on Risk Analysis

Participants:

• Sandra Rostirola
• Ivanete Zuchi
• Elisa Henning
• Carla Martinho
• Amilcar Oliveira
• Antonio Teixeira

Risk Across Domains: Statistical Perspectives on Emerging Challenges and Societal Resilience

Category: Committee on Risk Analysis

Participants:

• Teresa Oliveira
• Joanna Stanisławska
• Elisabete Carolino
• Amitava Mukherjee Mukherjee
• Dário Ferreira
• Filomena Teodoro

Statistical Innovation and International Careers: Contributions from Young Researchers Trained in Brazil

Category: Young Statisticians

Participants:

• Fernando Arturo Peña Ramírez
• Professor Dr. Renata Rojas Guerra
• Carina Brunehilde Pinto da Silva
• Bruna Palm

Advancements in Measuring Unpaid Household Activities

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Mr David Johnson
• Jorrit Zwijnenburg
• Oliver Chinganya
• Leila Gautham
• YATTOU AIT KHELLOU
• Rebecca Riley

National Ownership, Innovation and Sustainability of Surveys in Times of Crisis

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Dr Lara Cleveland
• Omar Seidu
• Mauricio Rodriguez Abreu

Can mobile phone data provide accurate official statistics?

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Esperanza Magpantay
• Markus Zwick
• Cinzia Cirillo
• Dr Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva
• Carolina Franco

Statistics and Data Science Teacher Education and Professional Development Across School Levels

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Bruno de Sousa
• M. Alejandra Sorto
• Mauren Porciúncula
• Alejandra Mondaca
• Francisca Ubilla

Preparing Collaborative Statisticians to Work in Business and Industry

Category: International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Participants:

• Olushina Olawale Awe
• Benjamin Odoi
• Dr Akinlolu Olosunde
• TIMOTHY HANDAN
• Oluwayemisi Alaba
• Ezra Gayawan

Harmonizing household and labor force surveys: advantages, opportunities, and challenges

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Victoria Irenonse
• Cimar Azeredo Pereira
• Mr Felicien Accrombessy
• Rodrigo Lovaton Davila
• Sula Sarkar

Measuring Intangibles: Advances, Challenges, and Policy Relevance

Participants:

• Dr Steve MacFeely
• Filippo Bontadini
• Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
• Richard Heys
• Francesca Lotti
• Mr Jorrit Zwijnenburg

Machine learning, explainability, interpretability and statistics

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Luis Ángel García-Escudero
• Paola Vicard
• Rahim Mahmoudvand
• Stefano Maria Iacus
• Dr Linda J. Young

The Pedal to the Metal: Applying the TMLE in official statistics

Participants:

• Katharina Rossbach
• Nina Niederhametner
• Remco Paulussen
• Chris Lam

From data to policy – quality of statistics in the age of big data and AI

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva
• Ms Haoyi Chen
• Monica Pratesi
• Goeran Kauermann
• Katja Ickstadt

Data integration: probability and nonprobability samples

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Pier Luigi Conti
• Ralf Münnich
• Danny Pfeffermann
• Raymond L. Chambers

From Data to Impact: Hackathons as Catalysts for Innovation, Talent Development and Collaboration in African Official Statistics

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Olga Swierkot-Struzewska
• Serah Serah Mwikali Ndunda
• Mathias DOUEU
• Emmanuel Omokhomion
• Janne Utkilen
• Mantobaye Moungdigbaye

Transforming Statistics Education in Africa: Ten Years of the African Data Initiative

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• David Stern
• Aboubacari Abdou
• Michael Chariga
• Monday Chota
• Vitalis Kwambai
• Delia North
• Oluwaleke Oguntamu
• Francis Torgbor

Optimization in Modern Statistics: Design, Inference, and Policy

Category: International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Participants:

• Refik Soyer
• Ben Parker
• Matilde Bini
• Aldo Corbellini
• Byran Smucker

Fostering global partnership and global citizenship through data

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Rukia Nuermaimaiti
• Renette Blignaut
• Jose Quenum
• Winnie Nakiyingi
• Najmeh Nakhaeirad
• Anna Kaduma Gumbie
• Justine Nasejje
• Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Implementing the 2025 System of National Accounts in the European Union

Participants:

• Alejandro Donado
• Matevž Meze
• Francesca Tartamella
• François Guinouard
• Mr Jorrit Zwijnenburg

Democracy dies in darkness without Official Data

Participants:

• Monica Pratesi
• Francesca Perucci
• Oliver Chinganya
• Steve MacFeely

Asymmetries in Balance of Payments (BOP), their impact for data users and how to detect, assess and reduce them

Recent Advances in Complex Data Analysis

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Raffaele Mattera
• NDEYE NIANG
• Orietta Nicolis
• Mohammed sabri

Unlocking the Policy Value of Time-Use Statistics Through Integrated Data Systems

Participants:

• Shaida Badiee
• Mayra Buvinic
• Samuel Annim
• Dr. Muigai Wainaina
• Alice Nantaba
• Benjamin Muchiri

Generative AI, Statistics and Data Science: Mutual Influences and Future Directions

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Prof. Nalini Ravishanker
• Matilde Bini
• Paulo Canas Rodrigues
• Ralf Münnich
• Gary Dunnet
• Bruno de Sousa
• Nathaniel Newlands
• Nancy Reid

High-Dimensional and Functional Data Analysis: Modern Methods and Applications

Category: Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (BS)

Participants:

• Michelle Carey
• Issa-Mbénard DABO
• Guy-Martial Nkiet
• Frederic Bertrand
• Sena Apeke
• Dr DrNdèye Niang

Measuring Digital Platform Employment

Participants:

• Mr Michael Frosch
• David Niculcar
• Wang Simiao
• NYARUNDa vivianne
• Boon Heng Ang
• Nicola Massarelli

Measuring inequalities among vulnerable population groups: methodological challenges and new statistical approaches

Participants:

• Marie Laberge
• Rolando Ocampo Alcántar
• Mattia Di Salvo
• Susana Neves
• Thomas Onskog

MEASURING TRUST IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS: METHODOLOGIES, CHALLENGES, AND INNOVATIONS IN THE ERA OF AI

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Mariana Kotzeva
• Majlinda Joxhe
• Inkyung Choi
• João de Pina Mendes Cardoso
• Samuel Annim

Trusted Citizen Data in the AI Era: Quality, Ethics and Responsible Use

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Monica Pratesi
• Francesca Perucci
• Omar Seidu
• Ralf Münnich

Issues in Indigenous Identification: A panel discussion

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Richard Madden
• Albina Chuwa
• Lisa Jackson Pulver
• Fiona Willis-Nunez
• Fatima Salgado Naime

Indigenous Perspectives on the Census: Experience in Four Countries

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Bette Jacobs
• Oliver Chinganya
• Dr Kalinda Elizabeth Griffiths
• Andrew Sporle

Advances in Statistical Modelling: Perspectives from IASC Regions

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Alba Ester Martinez-Ruiz
• Cristian Andres Cruz Torres
• Priyanka Nagar
• Anuradha Roy

When Justice Generates Statistics: Bayesian Spatial Fairness and Explanation in Socio‑Technical Systems

Participants:

• Brenda Mac’Oduol
• Janet Van Niekerk
• Inger Fabris-Rotelli
• Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem
• Ineke Derks
• Renate Thiede
• Kabelo Mahloromela
• Rene Stander
• Claris Siyamayambo
• Jan van Wyk de Vries
• Ephent Selahle

A Universe of Complex Data: Astrostatistics for Modern Challenges (ASIG IPS)

Category: Astrostatistics Special Interest Group

Participants:

• Joshua Speagle
• Kevin McKinnon
• Bruce Basset
• Nadeem Oozeer

Statistical Frameworks for Irregular Environmental Data

Participants:

• Priyanka Nagar
• Cristina Tortora
• Sanjeena Dang
• Shuchismita Sarkar
• Shogo Kato
• Houyem Demni
• Antonio Punzo
• Prof. Andriette Bekker

Advances in Soft and Fuzzy Clustering

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Cristina Tortora
• Paolo Giordani
• Antonio Punzo
• Luca Bagnato
• Maria Brigida Ferraro
• Francesco Palumbo

Harmonization of Statistical Training Curricula in Africa: Building a Continental Framework for Capacity Development and Data Innovation

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Olusanya Olubusoye
• Bashiru Imoro Ibn Saeed
• Farouk Mhamdi
• Oluwayemisi Alaba
• Kumafan Shadrach Dzaan

Investigating Re-Ranking Bottlenecks in Large-Scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems and Proposing Performance Enhancement Techniques

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Olushina Olawale Awe
• Mr Md Shariful Islam

Statistical Literacy and AI: Opportunities and Challenges

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Elisa Falck
• Dr Steve MacFeely
• Thema Monroe White
• Juana Sanchez
• Pedro Campos

Innovation in capacity development – working across continents and sectors

Category: Capacity Building Committee

Participants:

• Matthew Shearing
• Sarah Rafferty
• Oliver Chinganya
• Axel Keza
• Sassire Napo
• TBC (three panelists) Malawi,, Argentina and Nepal Analysis for Action representative

AI, Machine Learning and Statistics in the Environment

Category: The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)

Participants:

• Edsel Pena
• Lambert De Monte
• Theresa Smith

Joint models: Advances and software

Participants:

• Freedom Gumedze
• Virginie Rondeau
• Denis Rustand
• Pedro Miranda-Afonso
• Elias Krainski

Responsible AI in Statistical Production: From Methods to Trusted Practice

Participants:

• Prof. Rosanna Verde
• Francesca Kay
• Marco Puts
• Mauro Bruno

Using AI to improve quality of and access to reference information (TBC)

Micro data sharing (TBC)

Statistical cooperation in Africa: a central banking perspective

Participants:

• Robert Kirchner

Mind the gap: Acting before the standards catch up

The evolution of official statistics: challenges and opportunities in innovative statistical products

Making further progress in the development of commercial real estate indicators

Participants:

• Thomas Knetsch
• Muhammad Azkaenza
• Bilyana Bogdanova

Text Classification with Machine Learning in Official Statistics: Experiences from the AIML4OS Project

Participants:

• Yu-Lin Huang
• Nina Niederhametner
• Adrián Pérez Bote
• Beata Brzostowska
• Boriska Toth

Trust in statistics: the UNECE playbook

Research and supervision in the age of AI: A South African perspective

Participants:

• Daniel Maposa
• Danielle Jade Roberts
• Chantelle Clohessy
• Michael von Maltitz
• Freedom Gumedze
• Claris Siyamayambo
• Inger Fabris-Rotelli

Forecasting in Complex and Dynamic Environments

Category: International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Participants:

• Nicholas Polson
• Katherine Bennett Ensor
• Refik Soyer
• Scott H. Holan

Structuring the Explosion: A Variant-Based Ecosystem for Open Statistics Education Resources

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Prof. Ayse Aysin Bilgin
• Christian Martinez
• David Stern
• Nathan Favero
• Nishan Mudalige

Trustworthy and Adversarial AI: Bayesian and Machine Learning Perspectives

Category: International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Participants:

• Matilde Bini
• Olushina Olawale Awe
• Tahir Ekin
• Nicholas Polson
• Ozan Kocadagli

Teaching Statistical Collaboration in Developing Countries

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Asifa Kamal
• Olusanya Olubusoye
• Marcus Nunes
• Tonya Esterhuizen
• Maureen Tobe Nwakuya
• Olushina Olawale Awe

Reimagining Statistical Training in Nigerian Universities: Curricula, Competencies, and the Challenge of the AI Era

Category: Capacity Building Committee

Participants:

• Olusanya Olubusoye
• Kafayat Alobaloke
• Oluwafemi Abioye
• Joseph Olasupo

Spatial linear network analysis for reshaping crime analytics

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Jan van Wyk de Vries
• Renate Thiede
• Jorge Mateu
• Greg Breetzke
• Arthur Antonio
• Gandhi Jafta
• Kabelo Mahloromela
• Rene Stander
• Luandrie Potgieter
• Claris Siyamayambo
• Ephent Selahle

AMARISTAT and the Future of Statistical Capacity Development in West Africa: Complementing Regional and National Statistical Systems

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Misha V. Belkindas
• Grace Bediako
• KB Danso-Manu
• Afarebea Vida Agien
• Nyakassi M.B. Sanyang
• alhassan iddrisu
• Richard Fatorma Ngafuan
• Adeyemi Adeniran
• Andrew Bob Johnny
• Samuel Annim
• Oliver Chinganya

Statistical Validation and Quality Assessment of Alternative Data Sources for Official Statistics: Emerging Methodologies for Trustworthy Data Ecosyst

Category: Young Statisticians

Participants:

• TBD TBD
• Francis Mwinsa
• George Yalla
• Dorcas Kareithi
• Geoffrey Kariuki
• Mr Kossi Edem Kludza
• Dr Luca Di Gennaro
• Harriet Namukoko

Functional Data Analysis

Category: International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)

Participants:

• Sonali Das
• Sophie Dabo
• Soham Sarkar

Recent advances in changepoint methodology and associated applications

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Rebecca Killick
• Kata Vuk
• Buckman Akuffo
• Euan McGonigle
• Reza Ramezan

New Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning tools for Official statistics

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Prof. Rosanna Verde
• Corentin Lemasson
• Daniel Ollech
• Luis Sanguiao-Sande

‘Building Trust in Official Statistics: Communication, Innovation, and AI’

Participants:

• Lukasz Augustyniak
• John Byrne
• Jose Martins
• Donald Pena Martinez
• Celine Zana-Roquette

Trustworthy Population Inference in the Era of AI: Privacy, Granularity, and Generalizability in Survey and Data Science

Category: International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

Participants:

• Parthasarathi Lahiri
• Dr Diana Dilshanie Deepawansa
• Matt Williams
• Jörg Drechsler
• Michael R. Elliott

The Future of the Friends of Official Statistics Network: From Advocacy to Strategic Action in a Changing Data Ecosystem

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Misha V. Belkindas
• Dr Juraj Riecan
• Mr Stephen Penneck
• Grace Bediako
• Hermann Habermann
• Prof. Dominik Rozkrut
• Jurate Petrauskiene
• Gary Dunnet

Unlocking Africa’s Data Dividend: Why Governments Need a Youth Data Workforce Policy in the Era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Participants:

• Biruk Tessema
• Dorcas Kareithi
• Dr Aliaa Amer
• Chidimma Ejiofor
• Nachela Chelwa

From Data Producers to Data Stewards: Making National Statistical Offices AI‑ready

Participants:

• Benjamin Rothen
• Georges-Simon Ulrich
• Jurate Petrauskiene
• Samuel Annim

Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Preserving Understanding, Trust and Good Practice

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Fabrizio Rotundi
• Pedro Campos
• Bianca Walsh
• Eugenia Tavares
• KATUNGE KIILU

Creating Meaning in Statistics and Data Science Education in the Advent of AI

Category: International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)

Participants:

• Karol Binkowski
• Dr Peter Kovacs
• Michael von Maltitz

Achieving Improved Nutritional Status and Food Security for Under-Fives and Toddlers: Nigeria and Indonesia Experience

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Dr. Monday Osagie Adenomon
• Dr. Timothy A Ogunleye
• Dr. Christian O Nwosu
• Dr. Anthony Ekpo
• Dr. Nur Chamidah
• Dr. Jonathan Atsua Ikughur
• Blessing Iveren Yaweh
• Dr. Enobong Francis Udoumoh
• Dr. Marisa Rifada

Official Statistics in the Age of AI

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Prof. Nalini Ravishanker
• Elisabetta Carfagna
• Lance A. Waller
• Scott H. Holan
• Oliver Chinganya

Causal Learning for Precision Health: Methodology and Applications

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Kiranmoy Das
• Shibasish Dasgupta
• Layla Parast
• Cristian Pattaro

Empowerment, Evidence and Enforcement: The Three E’s Shaping Ethical Practice

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Eric Rancourt
• Prof. Ayse Aysin Bilgin
• Gemma Van Halderen
• Albina Chuwa
• Chris Mukiza
• Calogero Carletto

"Beyond-GDP" Explorations in Chinese Practice

Category: Committee on the Public Voice of Statistics

Participants:

• Yafei Wang
• Yulu Zhang
• Lingbing Feng
• Yuzi Liu

Young Researchers IASC Session

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Carlo Cavicchia
• Carlos Cesar Trucios Maza
• Agatha Rodrigues

Ask and You Shall Retrieve: Natural Language Interfaces for Official Statistics

Participants:

• Elio Villaseñor
• Alex Lavrynets

Make Data Talent Visible: Why Africa Needs a Registry of Young Statisticians and Data Scientists.

Category: Young Statisticians

Participants:

• Lyne Nziza
• Nakazwe Chikoloma
• Sarah Mutheu
• Sean Sithole
• Ashenafi Alemu Tessema
• Lindelwa Sandra Dladla

Forensic statistics and AI in justice systems

Category: Special Interest Group on Data Science

Participants:

• Richard Gill
• Joe Marsh
• Julia Mortera
• Rowland Seymour

High-Dimensional Data Analysis and Visualisation

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Carlo Cavicchia
• Karunia Eka
• Raeesa Ganey
• Michel Van de Velden
• Irlandia Ginanjar
• Johane Nienkemper-Swanepoel
• Alfonso Iodice D'Enza
• Eric Beh

Novel Methods for Inference with Deep Learning and Complex Biomedical Data

Participants:

• Yi Li
• Syed Ejaz Ahmed
• Shuangge Ma

AI Readiness for Official Data and Statistics

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Prof. Ayse Aysin Bilgin
• Rufus Anwansedo
• ADEBOLA ARIYO
• sushanta Paul
• ADAOBI UZOMA OGBE
• Berwin A. Turlach
• Oliver J. M Chinganya
• Dr HH Saleh M. Al Nabit
• Belkacem Abdous
• ABAYISENGA Aimable
• Abosede Adedayo Adepoju

Symbolic Data Analysis for Challenging and Complex Big Data

Category: International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)

Participants:

• Andrej Srakar
• Jasminka Dobsa
• Sugnet Lubbe
• Lynne Billard
• Prof. Rosanna Verde

Statistical Learning and Modelling for Complex Matrix-Valued Data

Participants:

• Bruno Rémillard
• Prof. Bouchra Nasri

Ethics at the Centre: Leadership, Integrity and Trust in Statistical Data Systems

Category: International Statistical Institute

Participants:

• Dr Walter J. Radermacher
• Mr Federico Segui
• Albina Chuwa

Artificial Intelligence: A new Paradigm Shift in Revolutionizing Official Statistics

Category: International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Participants:

• Carlo Vaccari
• Misha V. Belkindas
• Osuolale Peter Popoola
• Dominik Rozkrut
• Kumafan Shadrach Dzaan
• Jurate Petrauskiene

Short course "Spatial Data Science Using R"

Frontiers in Causal Inference: Modern Methods for Mediation, Survival, and Individualized Treatment Effects

Participants:

• Xinyuan Song
• Yi Li
• Sijian Wang

Advanced Predictive Modelling for Climate Science -Weather Prediction, Climate Change Impacts, and Disaster Forecasting.

Participants:

• Abosede Adedayo Adepoju
• Tayo Ogundunmade
• Oladapo Muyiwa Oladoja
• Adewale Paul Onatunji
• Christopher Udomboso

Building an Integrated Statistical System for Policy and SDG Monitoring: Evidence from Tanzania

The New Data Sources and Africa Development Agenda: Advancing Official Statistics

Participants:

• Prince Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran
• Osuolale Peter Popoola
• Chigozie Kelechi Acha
• Kehinde Kazeem Adesanya
• Kumafan Shadrach Dzaan
• Adenike Olufunmilayo Odunsi

Navigating Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Official Statistics: Improving Stewardship and Trust

Participants:

• Dominik Rozkrut
• Dr Diana Dilshanie Deepawansa
• Osuolale Peter Popoola
• Elisabetta Carfagna
• Misha Belkindas

Generative AI: Challenges and Opportunities to Statistical Research and Education

Participants:

• Katharina Schüller
• Robert Todd Ogden
• Nairanjana Dasgupta
• Gary Dunnet

Statistics Concourse of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Participants:

• Andrea Diniz da Silva
• Arvind Rao
• Dr Elena Zarova
• Xiang Zhou
• Xinyi Li

Statistics in the age of data science and artificial intelligence: Time series, innovation dynamics, and complex networks

Participants:

• Francesco Palumbo
• Dr Ivor Cribben
• Dr Ying Chen
• Prof. Nalini Ravishanker

Strengthening biostatistical capacity in African health research

Participants:

• TBA TBA
• TBA TBA

Model-Based Analysis of Food Security and Nutritional Outcomes among Mother-Child Pairs in Tanzania: Evidence from TDHS 2015/16 and 2022

Participants:

• Edgar Pallangyo