Welcome to SLDS 2026: Inference and Intelligence

• Date/Time: November 1-3, 2026
• Location: Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY

About SLDS Conference

The SLDS Conference is the flagship event of the ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS). Started in 2016 and scheduled biannually, it was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic but resumed in 2024.

The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers in statistical machine learning and artificial intelligence from academia, industry, and government in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere to focus on the development of statistical learning theory, methods and applications.

Topics include, but are not limited to high dimensional statistics, big data analytics, deep learning, causal inference, graphical models, learning theory, model selection, network analysis, text and image analytics, spatiotemporal modeling and their applications in the health, social and engineering sciences, and signal and image processing.

This conference is mainly sponsored by the ASA section on Statistical Learning and Data Science. See our Sponsors page for a full list of our sponsors.

Timeline / Important Dates

• Wednesday, April 1, 2026: invited session proposal closes.
• Friday, May 1, 2026: registration opens.
• Tuesday, September 1, 2026: early registration ends/abstract submission closes.
• Saturday, October 31, 2026: online registration closes.