Frontiers of Statistical Inference 2025

What is This Workshop?

MBZUAI’s Department of Statistics and Data Science will host a workshop on the Frontiers of Statistical Inference, bringing together researchers to explore cutting-edge methods for reliable AI. The workshop is designed to encourage deep discussion, idea exchange, and informal collaboration across intersecting areas of statistics and machine learning.

The workshop will cover a broad set of topics at the intersection of statistics and AI, including:

Conformal inference and distribution-free prediction
Calibration and evaluation of probabilistic forecasts
Uncertainty quantification in complex and black-box models
Prediction-powered and model-assisted inference
High-dimensional and post-selection inference
Robustness and adaptation under distribution shift
Fairness, interpretability, and statistical guarantees

Graduate students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. This is a unique opportunity to engage with leaders in the field and discover future research directions.

Organizing Committee

Souhaib Ben Taieb (MBZUAI)
Mladen Kolar (MBZUAI / University of Southern California)
Eric Moulines (MBZUAI / École Polytechnique)
Maxim Panov (MBZUAI)
Qiang Sun (MBZUAI / University of Toronto)

Contact Information

For questions about the workshop, please contact Mladen Kolar: mladen.kolar AT mbzuai.ac.ae