| 主讲人简介： | Weining Shen is Associate Professor of Statistics at University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph. D from North Carolina State University in 2013, and he was a postdoc at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center between 2013 and 2015. He is an associate editor for a few statistical journals including JASA and Statistica Sinica. Prof. Shen’s research interest includes Bayesian methods, machine learning, high-dimensional models, and applications in neuroscience, biology, sports analytics, and education assessment. |
| 讲座简介： | Quantitative analysis in sports analytics has received a great deal of attention in recent years. In this talk, I will discuss two recent projects. The first project is about quantifying the casual effect of home field advantage in English Premier League Football games. The second project is to analyze the shooting patterns from the basketball players in NBA. For both projects, I will discuss methodology, computational algorithm, theory and future working directions. |
