Program

All events will be online. See Venue for WebEx links. Register here.

All times are US Eastern Time (New York)

Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021

• 08:30--8:45 Welcoming Remarks (Chair: Jun Yan, Professor of Statistics, University of Connecticut) (Video)
  • Andrew Agwunobi, Interim President, University of Connecticut
  • Paul Caddy, Head Coach Field Hockey, University of Connecticut
  • Seth Partnow, Special Advisor to the CEO at StatsBomb
• 08:45--09:45: Keynote Presentation 1 (Chair: David Bergman, Associate Proffessor of Operation and Information Management, University of Connecticut)
  • Eric Tulsky, Assistant General Manager, Carolina Hurricanes: No Stone Unturned: Leveraging Public Domain Analysis (Video)
• 09:50--10:50: Keynote Presentation 2 (Chair: Robert Huggins, Assistant Research Professor of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut)
  • Justin Jacobs, Principal Research Statistician, Sandia National Laboratories: A Square-Integrable Methodology into Play Registration for NBA Tracking Data (Video)
• 10:50--12:50: Poster Session
• 13:00--15:00: Training Workshops
  • Concurrent Session 1 (Introductory)
    • Introduction to R: Tuhin Sheikh : 13:00--13:50 (Video)
    • Introduction to Python: Surya Eada : 14:00--14:50 (Video)
  • Concurrent Session 2 (Intermediate)
    • Hockey Analytics with R: Meghan Hall: 13:00--13:50 (Video)
    • Basketball Analytics with R: Jackson Lautier: 14:00--14:50 (Video)
  • Concurrent Session 3 (Advanced)
    • Web Scraping for Sports Data: Lucas Godoy: 13:00--13:50
    • TensorFlow with Applications in Sports Analytics: Jun (Bruce) Jin: 14:00--14:50 (Video)
• 15:10--16:10: Panel Discussion on Careers in Sports Analytics (Video)
  • Alison Lukan (moderator), Seattle Kraken Contributor and TV Analyst for Root Sports
  • Jessica Hensley, Data Analyst, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.
  • Kelsey Roberts, Database/Basketball Analyst, New York Knicks
  • Sara Ziegler, Sports Editor, FiveThirtyEight
• 16:15--17:15: Keynote Presentation 3 (Chair: Kristin Morgan, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut)
  • Sarah Bailey, Manager Analytics and Data, Los Angeles Rams: Sports Science in NFL: An Overview of How Analytics and Performance Can Work Together (Video)
• 17:15--17:30 Student Poster Award and Closing Ceremony (Chair: Gregory Matthews, 2011 UConn Statistics Ph.D., Associate Professor of Statistics, Director for Data Science, Loyola University Chicago) (Video)