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ICSA Member News July 2019 TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Highlights PAGEREF _Toc16196825 \h 3ICSA 2020 Official Election Results Announcement PAGEREF _Toc16196826 \h 3Call for Nominations for Statistica Sinica co-Editors due by August 19, 2019 PAGEREF _Toc16196827 \h 3JSM 2020 Invited Session Proposal for ICSA Members due by September 5, 2019 PAGEREF _Toc16196828 \h 3The 4th ICSA – Canada Chapter Symposium, Advances and Innovations in Statistics and Data Science (August 9-11, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196829 \h 5ICSA Midwest & NIC-ASA Joint Fall Meeting (October 24-25, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196830 \h 5The 11th ICSA International Conference (December 20-22, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196831 \h 6ICSA 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium (May 17-20, 2020) PAGEREF _Toc16196832 \h 6ICSA Springer Book Series in Statistics PAGEREF _Toc16196833 \h 6Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Journals PAGEREF _Toc16196834 \h 7Statistica Sinica PAGEREF _Toc16196835 \h 7Statistics in Biosciences PAGEREF _Toc16196836 \h 7Statistics and Its Interface (SII) Call for Papers PAGEREF _Toc16196837 \h 8Upcoming ICSA Meetings PAGEREF _Toc16196838 \h 9The 11th ICSA International Conference (December 20-22, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196839 \h 9ICSA 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium (May 17-20, 2020) PAGEREF _Toc16196840 \h 9ICSA 2020 China Conference PAGEREF _Toc16196841 \h 10Upcoming Co-Sponsored Meetings PAGEREF _Toc16196842 \h 11Conference on Current Trends in Survey Statistics (August 13-16, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196843 \h 11The 6th International Symposium on Biopharmaceutical Statistics (August 26-30, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196844 \h 11The 3rd International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (October 10-12, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196845 \h 12The 11th International Multiple Comparisons Procedures (MCP) Conference (December 12-15, 2019) PAGEREF _Toc16196846 \h 13Online Training Program PAGEREF _Toc16196847 \h 13Job Listings PAGEREF _Toc16196848 \h 14Assistant Professor - Department of Applied Mathematics (several posts) (Ref. 19022115), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University PAGEREF _Toc16196849 \h 14Electronic ICSA News Access PAGEREF _Toc16196850 \h 15 HighlightsICSA 2020 Official Election Results AnnouncementICSA is pleased to announce the five new members to the Board of Directors (2020-2022) and the 2020 President elect. The Board provides leadership for carrying out the ICSA mission for educational, charitable, and scientific excellence.197809211557000ICSA 2020 President Elect: Dr. Colin Wu National Institutes of Health (NIH). Board of Directors (2020-2022): Call for Nominations for Statistica Sinica co-Editors due by August 19, 2019The ICSA has formed a search committee to find the next three co-editors of Statistica Sinica. If you or people you know might be interested in serving this role, please email the ICSA president (Heping.Zhang@yale.edu) before August 19, 2019. JSM 2020 Invited Session Proposal for ICSA Members due by September 5, 2019JSM 2019 just ended, and it is time to start gearing up for organizing the invited program for JSM 2020, which will be held in Philadelphia, August 1-6, 2020. ICSA would like to invite you to submit an invited session proposal by September 5, 2019. The theme for JSM 2020 is “Everyone Counts: Data for the Public Good,” but not all sessions have to adhere to this theme. Formats vary for invited sessions; however, all are 110 minutes in length and have a session chair. The sessions typically include 2–6 participants, including the chair, with two of the most popular and successful formats being 2–3 speakers with a discussant or a panel discussion of 3–5 panelists. Please reference the call for invited sessions published in Amstat News: . Detailed information needed to submit an invited session proposal is provided below. If you encounter any problems with the online system, please contact Naomi Friedman at naomi@. You will need to have the following information to submit your session proposal online: 1. Session Type (invited) 2. Session Subtype (e.g., paper or panel) 3. Sponsor (Select International Chinese Statistical Association from the pull-down menu provided; organizers can select up to 3) 4. Title of Session 5. Session Description – please provide the following information in this field: ? Short description of session, including focus, content, timeliness, and appeal ? Invited speakers/panelists, including affiliation and email address for each participant and tentative title for each presentation ? Format of session (e.g., chair, three speakers, and discussant) ? No abstracts are required for submission at this time 6. Theme (yes or no): Designate if the session has topics relevant to the JSM theme 7. Applied (yes or no): Designate if the session has topics relevant, or will have special appeal, to applied statisticians 8. Estimated audience size: Select the estimated audience size the session will attract 9. Session organizer, including affiliation and email address 10. Session chair, including affiliation and email address 11. Discussant (if any), including affiliation and email address Please contact potential participants before submitting a proposal, as they already may have committed to participating in another session at JSM 2020. There are participation guidelines and restrictions regarding the number of times and in what capacity one can participate in the program: . Looking forward to receiving your proposals! Xuming He ICSA representative to JSM 2020 The 4th ICSA – Canada Chapter Symposium, Advances and Innovations in Statistics and Data Science (August 9-11, 2019)The 4th ICSA – Canada Chapter Symposium, Advances and Innovations in Statistics and Data Science, will be held August 9-11, 2019 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Devon Lin of Queen’s University is the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Wenqing He of the University of Western Ontario is the Chair of the Scientific Committee. Professor Tony Cai of University of Pennsylvania and Professor Runzhe Li of Pennsylvania State University will be the Keynote Speakers of the Symposium.The Symposium welcomes proposals for invited sessions. An invited session consists of four speakers (or three speakers and a discussant), with each speaker having 25 minutes for the presentation and discussion. Please visit for more updated information.ICSA Midwest & NIC-ASA Joint Fall Meeting (October 24-25, 2019)A great event for networking and updating quantitative skills.Where: Hilton Chicago/Northbrook, 2855 Milwaukee Ave., Northbrook, IL 60062Who: Statisticians, Business Analysts, Data Scientists, and All Quantitative Scientists! Website: 1 Short courses on "Causal inference in real world observational data" and "Learning and implementing Bayesian adaptive designs"Day 2 parallel sessionsBreakfast and lunch are includedGenerous student poster awardsFree registration for student attendeesThe 11th ICSA International Conference (December 20-22, 2019)The 11th ICSA International Conference will be held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, from December 20, 2019 to December 22, 2019. Organizing committee Chair: Hongzhe Li (hongzhe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu). Please visit for detailed information.ICSA 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium (May 17-20, 2020)The ICSA 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium will be held at the Westin Galleria Houston, Houston, Texas, from May 17-20, 2020, For information, please contact Professor Hulin Wu at Hulin.Wu@uth.tmc.edu. Refer to this link for details.ICSA Springer Book Series in StatisticsThe co-editors of ICSA Springer book series in statistics, Drs. Jiahua Chen and Din Chen, have reported that there are 10 books in the series now. If you plan to write books in the series, please contact Dr. Jiahua Chen (jhchen@stat.ubc.ca) or Dr. Din Chen (dinchen@email.unc.edu). Five books in the ICSA Springer book series were published in 2017:1) "Monte-Carlo Simulation-Based Statistical Modeling"?(edited by Chen, Ding-Geng, Chen, John Dean);2) "Phase II Clinical Development of New Drugs"?(edited by Ting, N., Chen, D.-G., Ho, S., Cappelleri, J.C.).3) "Biased Sampling, Over-identified Parameter Problems and Beyond"?(edited by Qin, Jing)4) "Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data" (edited by Chen, D.-G., Lio, Y., Ng, H.K.T., Tsai, T.-R.)5) "New Advances in Statistics and Data Science"?(edited by Chen, D.-G., Jin, Z., Li, G., Li, Y., Liu, A., Zhao, Y.)Thanks to all authors who contributed to these books.1)?)?)?)?)? following 6 books were published in 2018:1)?Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, Volume 1 Design of Clinical Trials?(edited by Peace, K.E., Chen, D.-G., Menon, S.)2)?Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, Volume 2 Biostatistical Analysis of Clinical Trials?(edited by Peace, K.E., Chen, D.-G., Menon, S.)3)?Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, Volume 3 Pharmaceutical Applications?(edited by Peace, K.E., Chen, D.-G., Menon, S.)4)?Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Statistical Conference for Production Engineering: Big Data, Production Engineering and Statistics?(edited by Choi, D., Jang, D., Lai, T.L., Lee, Y., Lu, Y., Ni, J., Qian, P., Qiu, P., Tiao, G.)5) Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data with R (edited by Xia, Y., Sun, J., Chen, D.-G.)6) New Frontiers of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (edited by Zhao, Y., Chen, D.-G.)Sponsored and Co-Sponsored JournalsStatistica SinicaForthcoming papers' information is available at? new issue (Volume 29, Number 3, 2019) is published.ICSA members have access to these articles via the "membership only area" at? you have any problems with subscription, please contact the editorial office through?ss@stat.sinica.edu.tw.Statistics in BiosciencesThe published new issue is Volume 11 Issue 2 in July 2019 Recently accepted articles can be found at the journal website A link for submitting your article to SIBS online is below Statistics and Its Interface (SII) Call for PapersStatistics and Its Interface is an international statistical journal promoting the interface between statistics and other disciplines including, but not limited to, biomedical science, geosciences, computer sciences, engineering, and social and behavioral sciences. The journal publishes high-quality articles in broad areas of statistical science, emphasizing substantive problems, sound statistical models and methods, clear and efficient computational algorithms, and insightful discussions of the motivating problems. Visit SII's web page at for more information. Most recent issue is available at Press and Tsinghua University Mathematical Science Center are pleased to announce open online access (free of charge) to the journal Statistics and Its Interface (SII) which includes five volumes.Statistics and Its Interface (SII) invites submissions for a special issue on Modern Meta-Analysis and Network Meta-Analysis. SII promotes interface between statistical theory and methodology and applications. Thus, we strongly encourage innovative meta-analysis theory or methods in all areas of sciences. Your papers, once accepted, will be published together in a future issue of SII.The submission deadline for the special issue is November 1, 2019. All submissions must be online through the website and please state that your submissions are "For the Special Issue on Modern Meta-Analysis and Network Meta-Analysis" in the Box of Comments to the editors.For more information, please download the file: your support and collaboration, we are confident that the special issue will be a success that will reflect the state-of-art of research at the frontier of this vital and rapidly developing area. We look forward to receiving your papers in due course.Jeng-Min Chiou (Co-Guest Editor), Academia SinicaWensheng Guo (Co-Guest Editor), University of PennsylvaniaFang Yao (Co-Guest Editor), University of TorontoMing-Hui Chen (Co-Editor-in-Chief), University of ConnecticutYuedong Wang (Co-Editor-in-Chief), University of California, Santa BarbaraUpcoming ICSA MeetingsPlease find below a list of upcoming ICSA meetings. This list also appeared on the ICSA website. Meetings not included in our list are not authentic ICSA meetings. If you have any questions, please contact Gang Li, the ICSA Executive Director?(gli@its.). The 11th ICSA International Conference (December 20-22, 2019)Refer to this link for detailsICSA 2020 Applied Statistics Symposium (May 17-20, 2020)You are cordially invited to the 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Houston! The ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium will be held from Sunday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at The Westin Galleria Houston, 5060 W Alabama Street, Houston, Texas. Please send any inquiry to Dr. Hulin Wu (Hulin.Wu@uth.tmc.edu). Houston?is the?fourth-most populous city in the United States.?Houston is a?global city, with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine, and research. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7?million visitors a year. Notable facilities include?the Museum of Fine Arts,?Houston Museum of Natural Science, the?Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the?Station Museum of Contemporary Art,?Holocaust Museum Houston, the?Houston Zoo, and NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Houston is the seat of the internationally renowned Texas Medical Center (TMC), which contains the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions including University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, MD Anderson Cancer Center,?Baylor College of Medicine,??Memorial Hermann Hospital,?The Methodist Hospital,?and Texas Children's Hospital. Several universities of higher education such as?The University of St. Thomas, University of Houston, and?Rice University are located within the city.?Please visit for details.Call for Invited Session Proposals We welcome your invited session proposals. The invited sessions will be processed through program committee. If you plan to organize an invited session, please communicate with one of the program committee members. An invited session will be 100 minutes with 4 speakers or 3 speakers and one discussant. A proposal includes 1) session title, 2) organizer, 3) session chair, 4) list of speakers and discussant. It is required to confirm all speakers' availability before submitting a proposal. There is a one-talk rule for speakers, but one can serve as a discussant in another invited session while speaking in an invited or contributed session. The deadline for the invited session proposal is November 1, 2019. Call for Student Paper Award Applications Up to eight student award winners (five Student Travel Awards, one Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper, and possible two ASA Biopharmaceutical Awards) will be selected. Each winner will receive a plaque or certificate, an award for travel and registration reimbursement up to $1,000 or a cash award of $550, whichever is bigger, as well as free registration for a short course. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2020. Call for Short Course Proposals Anyone who is interested in giving a one-day or half-day short course at 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium is welcome to submit a short-course proposal to Dr. Wenyi Wang (wwang7@). The submission deadline is December 15, 2019.Executive CommitteeExecutive Committee Chair: Hulin Wu (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)Scientific Program Chair: Momiao Xiong (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) and Jianhua Huang (Texas A&M University)Program Book and Website Committee Chair: Yunxin Fu and Ashraf Yaseen (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)Local Committee Chair: Hongyu Miao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)Treasurer: Dejian Lai (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)Student Paper Competition Committee Chair: Ruosha Li (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) and Jing Ning (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)Short Course Committee Chair: Wenyi Wang (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)Fund Raising Committee Chair: Rui (Sammi) Tang (Servier Pharmaceuticals)Dr. Hulin Wu at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (hulin.wu@uth.tmc.edu) chairs the Organization Committee.ICSA 2020 China ConferenceThis conference will be held at Zhongnan?University of Economics?and Law, Wuhan.? More details?will come soon.??Upcoming Co-Sponsored MeetingsPlease find below a list of upcoming ICSA co-sponsored meetings. This list also appeared on the ICSA website. Meetings not included in our list are not authentic co-sponsored meetings. If you have any questions, please contact Gang Li, the ICSA Executive Director (gli@its.).Conference on Current Trends in Survey Statistics (August 13-16, 2019)The conference “Current Trends in Survey Statistics” will be held in Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 13th to 16th August, 2019. We are happy to announce that this conference has already been declared as a satellite conference to the 62nd ISI World Science Congress to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 18th to 23rd August, 2019. More information about the conference, including the organising committees, timeline, venue, registration and abstract submission can be found in the following web-page: . Questions and queries should be directed to: Sanjay Chaudhuri, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS, email: sanjay@stat.nus.edu.sg or stasc@nus.edu.sgThe 6th International Symposium on Biopharmaceutical Statistics (August 26-30, 2019)The 6th International Symposium on Biopharmaceutical Statistics (ISBS2019) will be held 26-30 August, 2019 at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together statisticians, quantitative scientists, medical product development professionals and regulators across the world to share and exchange information, experiences, challenges and research findings, and to promote international standards for statistical practice in the biopharmaceutical industry. The theme of the 2019 symposium is "Statistical Innovation and Contribution in the Era of Precision Healthcare".Keynote speakersRobert Hemmings, Consilium Salmonson and HemmingsTze Leung Lai, Stanford UniversityFrank W Rockhold, Duke UniversitySue-Jane Wang, Food and Drug Administration (remotely via video)Further keynote speakers will be available soon.Registration is NOW OPEN!Kyoto is ready to welcome you! Registration is now open for ISBS2019. The conference will include 6 half-day short courses on August 26, and five keynote lectures, 18 invited sessions, 17 topic-contributed session, 2 workshops, and 6 featured sessions in regulatory science on August 27-30. Social events will include a welcome mixer (August 27) and a conference dinner (August 29). Further program will be available soon. The registration fees include: access to all sessions, welcome reception and lunches and coffee breaks from Tuesday (Augsut 27) to Friday (August 30). Call for contributed abstractWe've received some wonderful abstracts and if you're quick, there's still time to submit an abstract via online. Each abstract submission must include the title, list of authors and author affiliations, and abstract, with each submission having a maximum length of 250 words and keywords. The number of abstract submissions with the same presenting author is limited to one.Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Statistics (SBR), an Official Journal of the American Statistical Association (ASA), will publish a special issue for the ISBS2019. All presenters at ISBS2019 including both of speakers (at invited/topic contributed/contributed sessions) and poster presenters are invited to submit their high quality papers on statistical methods for the life sciences and medical product development. In particular, submissions to the symposium theme "Statistical Innovation and Contribution in the Era of Precision Healthcare" are welcome. All submissions will be peer-reviewed according to the reviewing principles of SBR.The 3rd International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (October 10-12, 2019)The 3rd International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications will be held from October 10, 2019 to October 12, 2019 at Eberhard Conference Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. For more information about the conference, please visit 11th International Multiple Comparisons Procedures (MCP) Conference (December 12-15, 2019) The 11th International Multiple Comparisons Procedures (MCP) Conference will be held during December 12-15, 2019 in Taipei. The conference will cover the latest methodological and applied developments in the areas of simultaneous and selective inference: testing, confidence intervals, estimation, adaptive designs and statistical modelling, under a variety of error-rates to be controlled. The conference will be supplemented by pre-conference short courses. Please visit for detailed information.Open date for abstract submission is March 1, 2019, deadline for abstract submission is 1st June, 2019. Online Training ProgramOnline training serves as a viable alternative to traditional continuing education options, e.g., to short courses offered at biostatistical conferences. Over the past year, the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section has been working on creating an online training program aimed at clinical trial statisticians and set up a pilot program, which includes half-day and full-day courses on key topics in biopharmaceutical statistics:Analysis of Longitudinal and Incomplete DataMultiplicity Issues in Clinical TrialsAnalysis of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical TrialsThe section has received much positive feedback from industry and academic statisticians. Clinical trial statisticians who took advantage of the online training program emphasized that this program is convenient, inexpensive and quite flexible. A similar online training program has been set up for ICSA members. As a member of the ICSA, you will receive a 50% discount when you sign up for any course included in the program. The online training courses are based on professionally recorded videos using a format similar to that used in YouTube videos. The videos can be accessed 24/7 on a computer or even on a smartphone. The cost of online training is low compared to traditional training, and it can be further reduced by using a group-training format. Up to 25 people can view an online training course with a single registration, which lowers the cost of online training to about $20-25 per person for full-day courses and $10-15 per person for half-day courses.For more information about the online training program and to sign up for the individual online courses, please visit this web page: ListingsAssistant Professor - Department of Applied Mathematics (several posts) (Ref. 19022115), The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a government-funded tertiary institution in Hong Kong. It offers programmes at various levels including Doctorate, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees. It has a full-time academic staff strength of around 1,400. The total annual consolidated expenditure budget of the University is in excess of HK$7.4 billion. DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICSAssistant Professor in Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics / Engineering and Computational Mathematics / Applied Optimization and Operations Research (several posts) (Ref. 19022115)The Department of Applied Mathematics (AMA) is part of the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles. The Department offers undergraduate programmes in Investment Science and Finance Analytics, and Data Science and Analytics, and makes a significant contribution to most of the other academic programmes of the University by providing service teaching. It also offers master’s programmes in Applied Mathematics for Science and Technology with specialism in Decision Science and Actuarial and Investment Science, and Operational Research and Risk Analysis. Members of the Department have expertise in applied optimisation and optimal control, engineering computation, operational research, management science and applied statistics. There are currently 43 academic staff and about 50 research personnel in the Department. Please visit the website at for more information about the Department.The appointees will be required to (a) teach and contribute to curriculum development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; (b) supervise MPhil and PhD students; (c) engage in scholarly research, consultancy and other scholarly activities leading to publications in top-tier refereed journals and awards of research grants; and (d) undertake academic and departmental administrative duties. The Department has established a Joint Research Institute with the Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The appointees are expected to be actively involved in the activities of the Institute.Applicants should have (a) a doctoral degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Mathematics, Operations Research, Computational Mathematics, Applied Mathematics or a closely related field; (b) an established track record in research and scholarship, including refereed publications and external grant applications; (c) expertise in applied statistics, operations research and mathematics; and (d) a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching.Remuneration and Conditions of ServiceA highly competitive remuneration package will be offered. Initial appointments will be on a fixed-term gratuity-bearing contract. Re-engagement thereafter is subject to mutual agreement. For general information on terms and conditions for appointment of academic staff in the University, please visit the website at . Applicants should state their current and expected salary in the application.ApplicationPlease send a completed application form to Human Resources Office, 13/F, Li Ka Shing Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong or via email to hrstaff@polyu.edu.hk. Application forms can be obtained via the above channels or downloaded from . If a separate curriculum vitae is to be provided, please still complete the application form which will help speed up the recruitment process. Consideration of applications will commence on 20 March 2019 until the positions are filled. The University’s Personal Information Collection Statement for recruitment can be found at ICSA News AccessPlease visit for all ICSA member news online. ................
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