The 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium was originally scheduled to be held from May 17 to 19, 2020, at Westin Galleria Houston, Houston, Texas. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, this Symposium was postponed to December 13-16, 2020 hosted online. Despite many challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium was held very successfully. Dr. Hulin Wu was the chair of the executive committee, Dr. Momiao Xiong and Dr. Jianhua Huang served as co-chairs of Program Committee, Dr. Xi Luo chaired poster session committee, and Dr. Wenyi Wang was the chair of the short course committee. The theme of the symposium was “Advancing Statistics for Data Intelligence”. It offered 9 short courses and 104 sessions including three keynote lectures, seven poster sessions, one student award session, and a Talent Show. The keynote speakers were Dr. Xihong Lin (Harvard University), Dr. Josh Chen (Sanofi Pasteur), and Dr. Michael I. Jordan (University of California at Berkeley). More than 600 statisticians and data scientists from academic, government, and industry over the world attended the symposium.
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