In 2022, the 38-th ASA Q&P Section's Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA from June 14 – 16, 2022. The theme of this year's conference is Data, Statistics, and Responsibility. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in quality and productivity.
The conference will honor Dr. Bin Yu, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, and center for computational biology, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Conference registration begins in February 2022. For an additional registration fee, a short course "Empowering the Statistician with Spark, Machine Learning and Deep Learning" by Dr. Hui Lin from Shopify and Dr. Ming Li from Amazon will be offered before the conference, on June 13, 2022.
An important objective of the QPRC is to encourage student participation. Scholarships for participation in the conference include the Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships and QPRC Student Scholarships.
The conference website, https://qprc2022.com/, contains the up-to-date information about the conference program, short course, registration, scholarships, and hotel information. The hybrid format of the conference will accommodate both in-person and virtual participation.
To submit a contributed paper for the 2022 QPRC, please provide the title, authors, and an abstract to Dr. Michael Ruddy at mruddy@usfca.edu.
For further information on the conference, please contact Dr. Alexandra Piryatisnka at alpiryat@sfsu.edu or Dr. Angela Schoergendorfer at angelasch@google.com.
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Emmanuel Yashchin
IBM Corporation
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