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Workshop Description

The Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI) seeks to showcase the exciting new ideas coming out of the post-selection inference framework and investigate how tools from higher-order asymptotics can both elucidate important properties of post-selection inference procedures, as well as suggest new directions which may ultimately yield more accurate small-sample performance. (More details on potential topics below).

This conference supports the Non-Discrimination Statement of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

We are grateful to have the financial sponsorship of the NSF through DMS-1623028, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Mathematics, and the Division of Biostatistics, all at Washington University in St. Louis.

Click here for a final program.

Click here for the discussion board.
Most of the slides are also available there. I tried an experiment with this workshop: since speakers and audience members rarely have sufficient interaction, I created a discussion board where audience members could give comments and ask questions in real-time (also with LaTeX support), and the speaker could reply later on, even weeks later after having time to reflect!

Eventually (not yet) everything will be archived on a permanent website available here.


Organizing Committee

Final List of Speakers (a full list of registered participants is at the bottom of this page)

Potential Topics include (but are certainly not limited to):

Principles and general views of post-selection inference
, for example
Post-selection inference and selective inference, for example
Simultaneous inference, false discovery rates (FDR), false coverage statement rates (FCR), family-wise error rates (FWER), for example
Bayesian post-selection inference, for example
Bagging and Boosting, for example
High-dimensional inference, for example
Selection and inference for weak signals, for example

The aspects of the above topics and other post-selection inference procedures which will be emphasized in the workshop are those related to higher-order asymptotics, including both analytic- and resampling-based tools and refinements, some of which are described in:
Some recent references for post-selection inference include

List of Registered Participants (may be missing a few)

Faculty and post-docs from other institutions (35 US, 9 international)

Genevera Allen
Rice University
Dept. of Statistics
Mohamed Amezziane
Central Michigan University
Department of Mathematics
Rida Benhaddou
Ohio University
Department of Mathematics
Jacob Bien
Cornell University
Dept. of Statistical Science
Jelena Bradic
University of California San Diego
Dept. of Mathematics
Larry Brown
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Statistics
Andreas Buja
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Statistics
Florentina Bunea
Cornell University
Dept. of Statistical Science
Hongyuan Cao
University of Missouri Columbia
Dept. of Statistics
Jianqing Fan
Princeton University
Dept. of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Don Fraser
University or Toronto, Canada
Dept. of Statistical Sciences
Max G'Sell
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Statistics
Dalia Ghanem
University of California Davis
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Jessie Jeng
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Statistics
John Kolassa
Rutgers University
Dept. of Statistics and Biostatistics
Soumendra Lahiri
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Statistics
Xihong Lin
Harvard University
Dept. of Biostatistics
Lei Liu
Northwestern University
Preventative Medicine - Biostatistics
Joshua Loftus
Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom

Shujie Ma
University of California Riverside
Dept. of Statistics
Ryan Martin
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Statistics
Peter McCullagh
University of Chicago
Dept. of Statistics
Xiao-Li Meng
Harvard University
Dept. of Statistics
Yang Ning
Cornell University
Dept. of Statistical Science
Annie Qu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Statistics
Aaditya Ramdas
University of California Berkeley
Dept. of EECS, Dept. of Statistics
Nancy Reid
University of Toronto, Canada
Dept. of Statistical Sciences
John Robinson
University of Sydney, Australia
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Anuradha Roy
University of Texas San Antonio
Dept. of Management Science and Statistics
Alessandra Salvan
University of Padova, Italy
Dept. of Statistical Sciences
Richard Samworth
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dept. of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Nicola Sartori
University of Padova, Italy
Dept. of Statistical Sciences
Yuekai Sun
University of Michigan
Dept. of Statistics
Robert Tibshirani
Stanford University
Dept. of Statistics
Ryan Tibshirani
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Statistics
Stefan Wager
Columbia University
Dept. of Statistics
Xuerong Wen
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
Yuefeng Wu
University of Missouri St. Louis
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Daniel Yekutieli
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research
Alastair Young
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Dept. of Mathematics
Russell Zaretzki
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Dept. of Business Anaytics & Statistics
Anru Zhang
University of Wisconsin
Dept. of Statistics
Kai Zhang
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research
Ling Zhou
University of Michigan
Dept. of Biostatistics

Faculty from Washington University in St. Louis (9)

Siddhartha Chib
Olin Business School
Jimin Ding
Dept. of Mathematics
Jose Figueroa-Lopez
Dept. of Mathematics
Roman Garnett
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jeff Gill
Dept. of Political Science
Todd Kuffner
Dept. of Mathematics
Nan Lin
Dept. of Mathematics
Werner Ploberger
Dept. of Economics
Ed Spitznagel
Dept. of Mathematics


Graduate students from other institutions (8)

Debraj Das
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Soumendra Lahiri)
Sangwon Hyun
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Max G'Sell and Ryan Tibshirani)
Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student
Jelena Markovic Stanford University
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Jonathan Taylor)
Snigdha Panigrahi Stanford University
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Jonathan Taylor)
Xiwei Tang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Annie Qu)
Suzanne Thornton
Rutgers University
Dept. of Statistics and Biostatistics
Ph.D. student (Min-ge Xie)
Xiaoying Tian
Stanford University
Dept. of Statistics
Ph.D. student (Jonathan Taylor)


Graduate students from Washington University in St. Louis (16)

Luis Garcia German
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Jose Figueroa-Lopez)
Guanshengrui Hao
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Nan Lin)
Jiayi Fu
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student
Junnan He
Dept. of Economics
Ph.D. student (Werner Ploberger)
Chang Liu
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student
Hongyi Liu
Dept. of Economics
Ph.D. student (Werner Ploberger)
Cezareo Rodriguez
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student
Qi Wang
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Jose Figueroa-Lopez and Todd Kuffner)
Tian Wang
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Jimin Ding)
Wei Wang
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Nan Lin)
Liqun Yu
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student (Nan Lin)
Zoe Yu
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student
Michael Zdinak
Dept. of Economics
Ph.D. student (Werner Ploberger)
Li Zhang
Dept. of Economics
Ph.D. student (Werner Ploberger)
Qiyiwen Zhang
Dept. of Mathematics
Ph.D. student
Xinwei Zhang
Dept. of Mathematics
A.M. student (Todd Kuffner)


Local Information


For those arriving early or thinking about staying longer, St. Louis is a lovely place to visit. Besides the iconic Gateway Arch and the nearby Old Courthouse which houses exhibits on the Dred Scott case, St. Louis has a stunning botanical garden, a high density of good restaurants (BBQ is a specialty), and is close to many rivers (Missouri, Mississippi and Meremac) which are great for float trips. There are many nearby parks and nature reserves which are excellent for hiking, as well as a wolf sanctuary. Mark Twain's boyhood home lies an hour north of the city. Anheuser-Busch is headquartered in St. Louis and offers tours of the brewery (requires advance booking due to popularity). The workshop takes place one week before the second scheduled US Presidential Election debate, which will be held on campus. For those unfamiliar with the institution, Washington University in St. Louis is a leading national research university, ranked 23rd in the world in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities. Our statistics presence is concentrated in the Dept. of Mathematics. You are encouraged to look around this beautiful campus on the western edge of St. Louis, which faces Forest Park, the site of the 1904 World's Fair and home to the Saint Louis Zoo and Saint Louis Art Museum (both free admission, walking distance from campus). For baseball fans, the Pittsburgh Pirates are in town the weekend of the workshop, playing the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.