Presenter: Weining Shen, University of California, Irvine

Description: 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 causal effect of home field advantage in English Premier League Football games. The second project is to analyze the shooting patterns of basketball players in the NBA. For both projects, I will discuss methodology, computational algorithms, theory and future working directions. 

Bio: Weining Shen is an associate professor of statistics at University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD 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.

Hosted by:  Assistant Professor Sangwon Hyun

Location: Jack Baskin Engineering Building, Room 372
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98166327197?pwd=VmkzeUUrRUJ2aFVRRStRYXJuTjI1QT09