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We begin by elaborating two key features that motivate statistical perspectives for LLMs: (1) the probabilistic, autoregressive nature of next-token prediction, and (2) the complexity and black box nature of Transformer architectures. To illustrate how statistical insights can directly benefit LLM development and applications, we present two concrete examples. First, we introduce a novel statistical framework to analyze the efficiency of watermarking schemes, with a focus on a watermarking scheme developed by OpenAI for which we derive optimal detection rules that outperform existing ones. Second, we demonstrate statistical inconsistencies and biases arising from the current approach to aligning LLMs with human preference. We propose a regularization term for aligning LLMs that is both necessary and sufficient to ensure consistent alignment. Collectively, these findings showcase how statistical insights can address pressing challenges in LLMs while simultaneously illuminating new research avenues for the broader statistical community to advance responsible generative AI research. 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Prior to joining Clemson, he was a Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria (UVic), affiliated with the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, working with Dr. Francis Zwiers and Prof. Adam Monahan. Before his time at UVic, he held a SAMSI/University of North Carolina postdoctoral position under the supervision of Prof. Richard Smith.</span></span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885gutterContainerId-187"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885b187"><table width="100%" style="border:0;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:0;padding-right:0;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px" class="m_7115411320243597885mceTextBlockContainer"><div class="m_7115411320243597885mceText" id="m_7115411320243597885d187" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height:0"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue University in August 2017, advised by Prof. Hao Zhang. During his doctoral studies, he was actively involved in the Research Network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS) and the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), collaborating with Michael Stein and Elisabeth Moyer at the University of Chicago and Doug Nychka at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Before pursuing his doctorate at Purdue, he earned a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Akron and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. His research interests include statistics of extremes, spatio-temporal statistics, surrogate modeling for computer experiments, time-frequency analysis, multiscale statistical modeling, spatial point processes, environmental applications, and high-frequency physiological data analysis. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://niss.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3140364b3158a2b6dfdaa8cbe&id=6ac2c156b6&e=74727804bb" style="color:#00559b" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,85,155)"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">See Profile</span></span></span></span></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885b179"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" height="71"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885b180"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent;width:100%" role="presentation" class="m_7115411320243597885mceDividerContainer"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#c2c2c2;line-height:0;font-size:0" valign="top" class="m_7115411320243597885mceDividerBlock"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" align="center" id="m_7115411320243597885b44"><div></div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate;margin:0;vertical-align:top;max-width:100%;width:100%;height:auto" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;border-radius:0;margin:0" valign="top"><img alt="" src="https://dim.mcusercontent.com/cs/3140364b3158a2b6dfdaa8cbe/images/2bc3aa79-72fa-1a3f-9daf-d1eb38d61edc.png?dpr=2&rect=737%2C0%2C2212%2C600&w=399&h=108" width="660" height="auto" style="display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:0" class="m_7115411320243597885mceImage"></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div>
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Each session features a keynote presentation on cutting-edge topics, where attendees can engage with speakers on the challenges and opportunities in applying these technologies in real-world scenarios. This series is intended for professionals, researchers, and students interested in the intersection of AI, data science, and statistics, offering insights into how these fields are shaping various industries. The series is designed to provide participants with exposure to and understanding of how modern data analytic methods are being applied in real-world scenarios across various industries, offering both theoretical insights, practical examples, and discussion of issues.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">During Spring 2026, from January through May 2026, the series will focus on large language models (LLMs) and the statistical and methodological foundations required to develop, evaluate, and deploy them responsibly and effectively. As LLMs become central to a wide range of scientific, industrial, and societal applications, careful attention to data generation, model training, evaluation, and inference is essential to ensure reliability, robustness, and transparency. As LLMs become increasingly central to scientific research, industry workflows, and societal decision-making, rigorous attention to how training data are constructed, curated, and sampled is critical for understanding model behavior and limitations. The series will highlight methodological considerations in model training and fine-tuning, including sources of bias, variability, and uncertainty, as well as principled approaches to benchmarking and evaluation that move beyond surface-level performance metrics. Emphasis will be placed on transparent and reproducible evaluation frameworks that support meaningful comparisons across models and use cases, and on statistical perspectives that help clarify what LLM outputs do and do not represent. By grounding discussions of LLM development and deployment in sound statistical reasoning, the series aims to promote more reliable, interpretable, and trustworthy language models in practice.</span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885gutterContainerId-185"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_7115411320243597885b185"><table width="100%" style="border:0;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px" class="m_7115411320243597885mceTextBlockContainer"><div class="m_7115411320243597885mceText" id="m_7115411320243597885d185" style="width:100%"><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="color:#00559b"><span style="font-size:24px">Upcoming Webinars in Series</span></span></strong></p><ul><li><p class="m_7115411320243597885mcePastedContent"><a href="https://niss.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3140364b3158a2b6dfdaa8cbe&id=c3e4c3f29c&e=74727804bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,162,145);line-height:inherit;outline:0px" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,162,145)"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Recent Advances in the Statistical Foundations of Large Language Models</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif"> - 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