This lectureship took place on September 24, 2021.
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FSU Announces Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard as our 2021 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Murphy from Harvard will be joining us on September 24, 2021 for this year's Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship. The title of her upcoming talk is "We used a Bandit Algorithm to Personalize But Did It Work?".
Lecture Abstract
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms provide an attractive suite of online learning methods for personalizing interventions in Digital Health. However after a reinforcement learning algorithm has been run in a clinical study, how do we assess whether personalization occurred? We might find users for whom it appears that the algorithm has indeed learned in which contexts the user is more responsive to a particular intervention. But could this have happened completely by chance? We discuss some first approaches to addressing these questions.
About the Speaker
Susan Murphy is Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science at Harvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Her lab works on clinical trial designs and online learning algorithms in sequential decision making, in particular in the area of digital health. She developed the micro-randomized trial for use in constructing mobile health interventions which is in use across a broad range of health related areas. She is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, both of the US National Academies. She is a Past-President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Bernoulli Society and a former editor of the Annals of Statistics. She is a prior recipient of the RA Fisher Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society.
The Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship is sponsored by:
