Webinar: Design of Statistical Modeling Software

This post is by Eric.

On Wednesday, Juho Timonen from Aalto University is stopping by to tell us about his work. You can register here.

Abstract

Juho will present what he thinks is an ideal modular design for statistical modeling software, based on his experiences as a user, developer, and researcher. He will look at the structure of existing software, focusing on high-level user interfaces that use Stan as their inference engine. Juho will use the longitudinal Gaussian process modeling package lgpr and its future improvements to demonstrate different concepts and challenges related to software design and development.

About the speaker

Juho Timonen completed his Bachelor’s degree majoring in Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto University, Finland. His first research project was in game theory, and in his Bachelor’s thesis, Juho studied mixed-strategy equilibria in repeated games. He went on to do his Master’s degree at Aalto, majoring in Applied Mathematics. Juho joined the Computational Systems Biology group in the CS department at Aalto, where he got involved in probabilistic modeling and did his Master’s thesis on ODE modeling of gene regulatory networks. Juho continued as a Doctoral student in the same group, where his research is focused on probabilistic modeling.

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