{"id":73,"date":"2020-01-27T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jawieczo\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:15:47","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jawieczo\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>November 24, 2025: acceptance and online publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/forestry\/cpaf071\">&#8220;A method for empirically assessing small area estimators via bootstrap-weighted k-nearest-neighbor artificial populations, with applications to forest inventory,&#8221;<\/a> White, et al., <em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/forestry\">Forestry<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>November 9, 2024: co-organizer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/25th-annual-new-england-isolated-statisticians-meeting-tickets-1022699390407\">25th Annual New England Isolated Statisticians Meeting (NEISM)<\/a> hosted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonehill.edu\/meehan\/\">Meehan School of Business, Stonehill College<\/a>, Easton, MA<\/li>\n<li>November 7, 2024: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/portfolio\/WellesleyTalk_2024_11_07.pdf\">&#8220;Conformal prediction for timber damage after wildfires&#8221;<\/a> at the Mathematics and Statistics colloquium at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellesley.edu\/academics\/department\/mathematics\">Wellesley College<\/a>, Wellesley, MA<\/li>\n<li>July 9, 2024: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ColbyStatSvyRsch\/surveyConformal-CANSSI\">&#8220;Design-Based Conformal Prediction for Survey Sampling&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/canssi-crt-workshop-on-modern-methods-in-survey-sampling-tickets-852432878687\">CANSSI-CRT Workshop on Modern Methods in Survey Sampling<\/a>, Ottawa, ON [<a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/portfolio\/SurveyConformalDemo-CANSSI.html\">R code demo<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>May 14, 2024: featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/story\/digging-into-data\/\">Colby News article<\/a> about our Spring 2024 ASA DataFest<\/li>\n<li>January 3, 2024: publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/pub\/12-001-x\/2023002\/article\/00007-eng.htm\">&#8220;Design-based conformal prediction&#8221;<\/a>, Wieczorek, <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/en\/catalogue\/12-001-X\"><i>Survey Methodology<\/i><\/a>, 49 (2), 2023<\/li>\n<li>January 1, 2024: granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/story\/tenure-awarded-to-five-faculty-members\/\">[Colby News article]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>September 7, 2023: acceptance for publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.01422\">&#8220;Design-based conformal prediction&#8221;<\/a>, Wieczorek, <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/en\/catalogue\/12-001-X\"><i>Survey Methodology<\/i><\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ColbyStatSvyRsch\/surveyConformal-paper-code\">GitHub repo with code for the paper<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>August 23, 2023: interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/\">Colby News<\/a> for an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/story\/jerzy-wieczorek-helps-build-a-better-statistical-model\/\">&#8220;Building a Better Statistical Model&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 8, 2023: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.aievolution.com\/JSMAnnual\/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&amp;ev=3213\">&#8220;Design-Based Conformal Prediction for Survey Sampling&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2023\/\">Joint Statistical Meetings<\/a>, Toronto, ON [<a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/portfolio\/JSMTalk_2023_08_08.pdf\">slides<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>August 1, 2023: presenting on &#8220;Design-Based Conformal Prediction for Survey Sampling&#8221; at the US Census Bureau&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/topics\/research\/events\/summer-at-census.2023.html\">Summer at Census seminars program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 31, 2023: revised preprint available on arXiv of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.01422\">&#8220;Design-based conformal prediction&#8221;<\/a>, Wieczorek<\/li>\n<li>July 23, 2023: interviewed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/\">Portland Press Herald<\/a> for an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/07\/23\/can-chatgpt-save-mainers-time-in-the-kitchen\/\">&#8220;Can ChatGPT help Maine food professionals save time?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 5, 2023: mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/\">Colby News<\/a> in an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.colby.edu\/story\/a-co-creative-relationship-of-civic-engagement\/\">&#8220;A &#8216;Co-Creative Relationship&#8217; Toward Building Community&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 27, 2023: preprint available on arXiv of <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.15607\">&#8220;Assessing small area estimates via artificial populations from KBAABB: a kNN-based approximation to ABB&#8221;<\/a>, Wieczorek, White, et al.<\/li>\n<li>May 23, 2023: awarded a $20,000 grant to work on &#8220;Creating testbed populations for the Partnership for Small Area Estimation (PSAE) simulation<br \/>\nstudies&#8221; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncasifoundation.org\/project\/small-area-estimation-partnership\/\">National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI) Foundation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fia.fs.usda.gov\/\">Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)<\/a> program of the US Forest Service<\/li>\n<li>April 25, 2023: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/talks\/colby_scilunch_2023\/NatSciLunchTalk_2023_04_25.pdf\">&#8220;Conformal prediction for timber damage after wildfires&#8221;<\/a> at a Natural Sciences Division Lunch meeting at Colby College<\/li>\n<li>March 2, 2023: preprint available on arXiv of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.01422\">&#8220;Design-based conformal prediction&#8221;<\/a>, Wieczorek<\/li>\n<li>Fall 2022: We are hiring a tenure-track statistician to join our department at Colby College. We start reviewing applications on Oct 24, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/statistics\/faculty-searches\/\">More details here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 5, 2022: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/talks\/UW\/UW_RankingTalk_2022_10_05.pdf\">&#8220;Joint Confidence Regions for Communicating Uncertainty in Rankings&#8221;<\/a> to a reading group at the <a href=\"https:\/\/csss.uw.edu\/\">Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences<\/a>, University of Washington, presented virtually<\/li>\n<li>September 14, 2022: acceptance of <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2206.02976\">&#8220;Recall Distortion in Neural Network Pruning and the Undecayed Pruning Algorithm,&#8221;<\/a> Good et al., to <a href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2022\"><em>NeurIPS 2022<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 6-11, 2022: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2022\/onlineprogram\/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=320830\">&#8220;Joint Confidence Regions for Communicating Uncertainty in Rankings&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2022\/\">Joint Statistical Meetings<\/a>, Washington, DC [<a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/portfolio\/Wieczorek_Ranking_JSM2022.pdf\">slides<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>June 20-23, 2022: presenting a poster on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/package=CIPerm\"><code>CIPerm<\/code><\/a>: An R package for Computationally Efficient Confidence Intervals from Permutation Tests&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/user2022.r-project.org\/\">useR!, the R User Conference<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>May 23-27, 2022: presenting on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.com\/talks\/sae2022\/Wieczorek_FIA_SimPops_SAE2022.pdf\">How do we assess the performance of our small area estimators?<\/a>&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sae2022.org\/\">Small Area Estimation Conference<\/a>, College Park, MD<\/li>\n<li>April 25, 2022: acceptance of R package <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/package=CIPerm\">&#8220;<code>CIPerm<\/code>: Computationally-Efficient Confidence Intervals for Mean Shift from Permutation Methods,&#8221;<\/a> Tupaj and Wieczorek, to <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/\">CRAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 22, 2022: acceptance and online publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/26939169.2022.2063209\">&#8220;Think-aloud interviews: A tool for exploring student statistical reasoning,&#8221;<\/a> Reinhart, et al., <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/ujse21\">Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>January 13, 2022: acceptance and online publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/sta4.454\">&#8220;K-fold cross-validation for complex sample surveys,&#8221;<\/a> Wieczorek, Guerin, and McMahon, <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/20491573\"><i>Stat<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 10, 2022: acceptance of R package <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/package=surveyCV\">&#8220;<code>surveyCV<\/code>: Cross Validation Based on Survey Design,&#8221;<\/a> Guerin, McMahon, and Wieczorek, to <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/\">CRAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 14, 2021: provided mentoring as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ml4d.notion.site\/ml4d\/Mentorship-Session-27da82b6a42643d28cb065e939655673\">debut ML4D mentorship session<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ml4d.notion.site\/ml4d\/Machine-Learning-for-the-Developing-World-ML4D-2021-548251eab3df4517819c4742c2e5c853\">2021 ML4D (Machine Learning for Development) Workshop<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\">NeurIPS conference<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>August 7-12, 2021: led a roundtable discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2021\/onlineprogram\/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=220666\">&#8220;Machine Learning with Complex Survey Data&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2021\/\">Joint Statistical Meetings<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>July 22, 2021: online publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/cjs.11635\">&#8220;Model-Selection Properties of Forward Selection and Sequential Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional Regression,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Wieczorek and Lei,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/1708945x\"><em>Canadian Journal of Statistics<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/share\/author\/RRPJCNMYPBGUR85KRKY6?target=10.1002\/cjs.11635\">[full text read-only link]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 1, 2021: posted <a href=\"https:\/\/civilstat.shinyapps.io\/ApportionmentCalculator\/\">&#8220;Apportionment Calculator&#8221;<\/a> R Shiny app, accompanying <i>Amstat News<\/i> article on <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.amstat.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/01\/computations-us-house\/\">&#8220;Demystifying Apportionment Computations for the US House of Representatives&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 28 &#8211; July 1, 2021: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.causeweb.org\/cause\/uscots\/uscots21\/3g-fundamentals-data-visualization-education\">&#8220;Fundamentals of data visualization for education&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.causeweb.org\/cause\/uscots\/uscots21\/\">US Conference on Teaching Statistics<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>June 10, 2021: featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/magazine\/data-science-in-action\/\">Colby Magazine article<\/a> about our Spring 2021 ASA DataFest<\/li>\n<li>June 2-4, 2021: presenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/sdss\/2021\/onlineprogram\/AbstractDetails.cfm?AbstractID=309674\">&#8220;K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Sample Surveys&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/meetings\/sdss\/2021\/\">Symposium on Data Science &amp; Statistics<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>May 24-26, 2021: presenting on &#8220;K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Sample Surveys&#8221; at the US Census Bureau&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/topics\/research\/events\/summer-at-census.2021.html\">Summer at Census seminars program<\/a>, held virtually<\/li>\n<li>March 19-21, 2021: helped to organize the first <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/datascience\/datafest-2021\/\">Colby College DataFest<\/a>, a regional event under the auspices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.amstat.org\/education\/datafest\/\">ASA DataFest<\/a>, with student participants from Colby College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, and College of the Atlantic<\/li>\n<li>December 22, 2020: acceptance of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/civilstat\/FS-SeqCV-article\">&#8220;Model-Selection Properties of Forward Selection and Sequential Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional Regression,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Wieczorek and Lei,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/1708945x\"><em>Canadian Journal of Statistics<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 12, 2020: online publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/rssc.12402\">&#8220;A joint confidence region for an overall ranking of populations,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Klein, Wright, and Wieczorek,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/14679876\"><em>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 24, 2020: presenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jawieczo\/files\/2020\/01\/AmherstTalk_2020_01_24.pdf\">&#8220;K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Survey Data&#8221;<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.umass.edu\/calendar\/statistics-and-probability-seminar\/19909\">UMass Amherst<\/a>, Amherst, MA<\/li>\n<li>November 1, 2019: preprint available on arXiv of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1911.00535\">&#8220;Think-aloud interviews: A tool for exploring student statistical reasoning&#8221;<\/a>, Reinhart et al.<\/li>\n<li>October 22, 2019: presenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jawieczo\/files\/2020\/01\/BowdoinTalk_2019_10_22.pdf\">&#8220;Model Selection and Stopping Rules for High-Dimensional Forward Selection&#8221;<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/math\/index.html\">Bowdoin College<\/a>, Brunswick, ME<\/li>\n<li>October 10, 2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3c_kxWgRZ3\/\">Instagram story<\/a> about my <a href=\"http:\/\/civilstat.com\/portfolio\/Syllabus397_FA2019.pdf\">&#8220;Statistical Surveys, Censuses, and Society&#8221;<\/a> civic engagement course, partnering with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watervillefire.com\/\">Waterville Fire-Rescue Department<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 24-27, 2019: presenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jawieczo\/files\/2019\/08\/NRC_Poster.pdf\">&#8220;K-fold Cross-Validation for Complex Survey Data&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.imstat.org\/newresearchers\/conferences\/nrc.html\">IMS New Researchers Conference<\/a>, Fort Collins, CO<\/li>\n<li>May 29 &#8211; 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