BISP14 | 26-28 May 2025

Contributed Talks

Welcome to the Contributions Room, where the abstracts of the contributors and, optionally, also slides and short pre-recorded videos are available.

1

Bayesian inference of sparsity in stationary, multivariate autoregressive processes

Sarah Heaps
Durham University, United Kingdom

Darren Wilkinson, Durham University, UK
Ian Jermyn, Durham University, UK
Yujiang Wang, Newcastle University, UK

2

US COVID-19 school closure was not cost-effective, but other measures were.

Nicholas Irons
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Adrian Raftery, University of Washington, USA

3

Sequential Gaussian Processes for Online Learning of Nonstationary Functions

Michael Minyi Zhang
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Bianca Dumitrascu, Columbia University, USA
Sinead Williamson, Apple Research, USA
Barbara Engelhardt, Stanford University, USA

4

Bayesian inference for oscillatory systems using the pcLNA algorithms

Ben Swallow
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Giorgos Minas, University of St Andrews, UK
David Rand, University of Warwick, UK

5

Exchangeable random permutations for graph matching

Francesco Gaffi
University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Nathaniel Josephs, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Lizhen Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

6

Variable Ordering in a Cholesky-MSV model for stock market data

Martina Zaharieva
CUNEF Universidad, Spain

Ping Wu, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

7

Characterization of exchangeable Hoeffding decomposable sequences

Hristo Sariev
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Mladen Savov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
Stefan Gerdjikov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria

8

The Wiener disorder problem with random post-disorder drift

Bruno Buonaguidi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, sede di Milano, Italy

Francesco Ballarin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, sede di Brescia, Italy

9

MMAF-guided learning for spatio-temporal data

Imma Valentina Curato
TU Chemnitz, Germany
10

Modeling Neural Switching via Drift-Diffusion Models

Nicholas Marco
Duke University, United States

Jennifer M. Groh, Duke University, USA
Surya T. Tokdar, Duke University, USA

11

Bayesian Sequential Batch Design with Hierarchical Gaussian Processes

Shuang Zhou
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, United States

Ping-Han Huang, Arizona State University, USA
MIng-Huang Gao, Arizona State University, USA

12

Gaussian Invariance in Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Angelos Alexopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Michalis Titsias, Google Deep Mind, UK
Petros Dellaportas, UCL & Athens University of Economics and Business, UK
Siran Liu, UCL, UK

13

Flexible Bayesian Nonparametric Product Mixtures for Global-local Functional Clustering

Suprateek Kundu
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

Tsung-Hung Yao, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

14

Bayesian Markov-Switching Partial Reduced-Rank Regression

Matteo Iacopini
Luiss University of Rome, Italy

Maria F. Pintado Serrano, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Luca Rossini, University of Milan, Italy
Alexander Y. Shestopaloff, Queen Mary University of London, UK

15

Linear reversible processes and the three-parameter distribution of random integer partitions

Sergey Sosnovskiy
independent, formerly at Frankfurt School, Germany
16

EPPF-free Bayesian nonparametric inference for species sampling problems

Annalisa Cerquetti
Roma, Italy
17

Bayesian Inference for Site-Dependent Evolutionary Models: Applications to Vaccine Design

Scott C. Schmidler
Duke University, Department of Statistical Science, United States
18

First-order integer-valued autoregressive processes with Generalized Katz innovations

Roberto Casarin
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
26 May 2025
  • 9:00-18:00 TBA
27 May 2025
  • 9:00-18:00 TBA
  • 20:30 Social dinner
28 May 2025
  • 9:00-18:00 TBA
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