BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260309T191822EDT-7597tSbkWA@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260309T231822Z DESCRIPTION:Elena Tuzhilina\, PhD\n\nAssistant Professor Department of Stat istical Sciences\, University of Toronto\n\nWHEN: Wednesday\, March 18\, 2 026\, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.\n WHERE: Hybrid | 2001 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ College Avenue\, Rm 1140\; Zoom\n NOTE: Elena Tuzhilina will be presenting in-person at SPG H \n\nAbstract\n\nCanonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a fundamental mu ltivariate method for measuring associations between two datasets\, with a pplications in genomics\, neuroimaging\, public health\, and machine learn ing. In high-dimensional settings\, however\, classical CCA breaks down\, and existing sparse approaches often require a difficult trade-off between computational efficiency and statistical guarantees. We introduce ECCAR\, a fast and provably consistent sparse CCA algorithm that resolves this te nsion. By reformulating CCA as a high-dimensional reduced-rank regression problem\, we obtain consistent estimators with high-probability error boun ds while avoiding computationally intensive procedures such as Fantope pro jections. The resulting method is scalable\, projection-free\, and substan tially faster than competing approaches. We validate ECCAR through extensi ve simulations and demonstrate its practical utility on real-world data\, including an Alcohol Use Disorder and the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchan ge datasets\, where it uncovers reliable and interpretable multivariate as sociations.\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nElena Tuzhilina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. She received her Specialist’s degree in Mathematics from Moscow State Universi ty in 2015 and her PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2022 unde r the supervision of Professor Trevor Hastie\, where she focused on develo ping scalable statistical methods for structured and high-dimensional data with applications in biology and medicine. Her research lies in applied s tatistics\, with methodological contributions centered on dimension reduct ion and latent space modeling. She develops statistical methods that facil itate the analysis of complex biomedical datasets\, with applications in a reas such as neuroscience\, conformation reconstruction\, and single-cell data analysis.. elenatuzhilina.github.io/index.html \n DTSTART:20260318T193000Z DTEND:20260318T203000Z SUMMARY:Efficient Canonical Correlation Analysis with Sparsity URL:/spgh/channels/event/efficient-canonical-correlati on-analysis-sparsity-371787 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR