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Talks:

-Partial generalized additive models: An information-theoretic approach for avoiding concurvity. Invited lecture in university of Hong Kong, May 27 to 29, 2007.

-Applications of information theory in Generalized Additive Models. The 15^th International Conference forum on interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques. Shanghai, P.R. China, May 20 to 23, 2007.

-Predicting Protein Structure and Examining Similarities of Protein Structure by Spectral Analysis Techniques. Australia, Canberra. ANU BioinfoSummer2006, Dec.4-8, 2006.

-Avoiding the concurvity in generalized additive models-PGAM. 17^th COMPSTAT symposium of the IASC. Rome, Italy. Aug. 28 to Sep. 1, 2006.

-Partial generalized additive models: An information-theoretic approach for avoiding concurvity. 69^th Annual meeting of the institute of mathematical statistics. July 30- Aug. 4, 2006. -- Also chair the session of “Semiparametric and Econometric Models” .

-Phylogenomic Analysis of Listeria Reveals Divergent Evolution among Lineages with Different Abilities to Respond to Environmental Stress. Poster presentation at The 1^st International Conference in Phylogenomics, University of Montreal, Canada, March, 2006

-Likelihood Based Clustering (LiBaC) for Codon Models, a new method for inferring amino acid sites subject to positive and negative selection pressure. Poster presentation at The 1^st International Conference in Phylogenomics, University of Montreal, Canada, March, 2006.

-Interpretable dimension reduction. Invited talk for MALNIS seminar in Computer Science. Dec., 2004.

-Interpretable dimension reduction in drug discovery. Invited lecture in 26th Annual Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop. May, 2003.

-Statistical analysis of visual field progression. Presented in IPS (International Perimetric society meeting), June 2002.

-Detecting change in visual field data. ENAR meeting held at Arlington VA, Mar. 2002.

-Invited Discussion of Peter Hooper’s paper Flexible regression modelling with adaptive logistic basis functions, Presented at SSC Meeting, held in SFU, June, 2001.

-Interpretable Dimension Reduction. Presented at SSC Meeting, held in SFU, June, 2001.

-Interpretable Dimension Reduction. Presented at MITACS Annual General Meeting, held in Toronto, June, 2000.

-On the sample influence curve in canonical correlation analysis. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, held in Anaheim, Orange County, USA, August, 1997. ---Also published in the American Statistical Association 1997 Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section, pp. 66-69.

-An approximation to the sample influence curve in canonical correlation analysis. Presented at the International Symposium on Contemporary Multivariate Analysis and its Applications, held in Hong Kong, May 1997.