SICSS-Florida Atlantic University

June 1 to June 5, 2026 | Boca Raton, FL

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 1, 2026
  • Day Time Lecture Person June 1 8-8.30 AM Registration TAs 8.30-9 AM Breakfast Speaker: Discussion Agenda: Debarshi Datta, PhD & Morgan Cooley, PhD (Room: Atrium) 9-12 AM Data Science Fundamentals and Random Forest Modeling: Debarshi Datta, PhD (Room: NU202) 12-1.00 PM Lunch Finalizing Focus Groups Separate Domain Healthcare Social Service 1.00-3.00 PM Medical Data Architecture: Harshal Sanghvi, PhD (Room: NU201) Social Science Data Architecture: Alan Kunz-Lomelin, PhD (Room: NU202) Afternoon Session 3-5 PM Deep Learning-1: Subhosit Ray, PhD (Room: NU202) 5-6.30 PM Reception Dinner Intro to Focus Groups and Presence of Dignitaries (Room: Atrium) June 2 8-9 AM Breakfast Speaker: Morgan Cooley, PhD, Topic: Ethics (Room: Atrium) 9-12 AM Survival Analysis, David Newman, PhD (Room: NU201) 12-1.30 PM Lunch Panel Discussion: Recent use of generative AI in the Classroom: Moderated by Morgan Cooley, PhD (Room: Atrium) 1.30-3.30 PM Deep learning -2: Subhosit Ray, PhD (Room: NU201) 3.30-4.30 PM Pursuing a complex social science question with AI: Dr. Dye (Room: NU201) Separate Domain Healthcare Social Science 4.30-6.30 PM Cluster Analysis: Wayne Cole, PhD (Room: NU205) Network Analysis and Network Statistics. Alan Kunz Lomelin, PhD (Room: NU201) 6.30-8.00 PM Start Project Discussion with Group Dinner on your own June 3 8-9 AM Breakfast Speaker: Lisa Weise; Topics: TBA (Room: Atrium) 9-12 AM Model Interpretability ML approach: Debarshi Datta, PhD (Room: NU202) 12-1.30 PM Lunch Speaker: Armiel Suriaga Topics: regression modeling in Stata (Room: Atrium) Separate Domain Healthcare Social Science 1.30-3.30 PM Longitudinal Data Analysis (LSTM, RNN): Harshal Sanghvi, PhD (Room: NU202) Autoencoder, Unsupervised Learning: Rodrigo Pena, PhD (Room: NU201) Afternoon Session 4-6 PM cntd. Model Interpretability with Python: Debarshi Datta, PhD (Room: NU201) Class_1: Causal Inference on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGS): Minh Nguyen, PhD Class_2: Text Analysis & Causal Inference: Minh Nguyen, PhD (Room: NU202) 6-8 PM Project Discussion with Group Dinner on your own June 4 8-9 AM Breakfast Speaker: Ruth Tappan, PhD, Topics: TBA (Room: Atrium) 9-12 AM LMM/GLMM: David Newman, PhD (Room: NU202) 12-1.30 PM Lunch Topic: Research Design: Speaker: Dr. Candy Wilson (Room: Atrium) Separate Domain Healthcare Social Service 1.30-3.30 PM Twitter User Behavior Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching: Ana Aleksandric, PhD (Room: NU201) Summarizing the Community of Interest in Electoral Redistricting: Parker Edwards, PhD (Room: NU202) 4-8 PM Projects Focus Group Discussion:5 Dinner on your own June 5 8.30-9 AM Breakfast Self-Reflection 9-12 AM Project Discussion: Focus Groups (5) 12-1 PM BOX Lunch Continue to Discussion 1-2 PM Finalize Project Discussion: Focus Groups (5) 2-3.30 PM Elevator Pitch (10 minutes for each group) Presence of Dignitaries 3.30-4 PM Certification Distribution Ceremony with Dessert: President, Deans, Group Photos

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