Main ContentBiostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series
March 7, 2024
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD
Dorenkamp-Zbinden-Chair
Professor
John Hopkins University and University of Konstanz in Germany
Presentation: AI Will Only Replace Toxicologists Who Don't Use It
December 7, 2023
Tommy Naugle, PhD
Data Scientist Team Leader
Rocket Loans
Presentation: Data Science in Practice: Lessons from the Field
November 2, 2023
Daniel Byrne
Director of Artificial Intelligence Research in the Advanced Vanderbilt Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Senior Associate in the Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Presentation: Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes – the Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial is the Secret Sauce
October 5, 2023
Frank Bretz, PhD
Distinguished Qualitative Research Scientist
Novartis
Presentation: Graphical Approaches to Multiple Test Problems
September 7, 2023
Tianzhong Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
University of Minnesota
Presentation: Subset Scanning For Multi-Trait Analysis Using GWAS Summary Statistics
April 5, 2023
David Kaplan, PhD
Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Presentation: Bayesian Methods for Borrowing Historical Information with Applications to the Analysis of Large-Scale Assessments
March 22, 2023
Nashlie Sephus, PhD
Principal Tech Evangelist
Amazon
Founder/CEO
The Bean Path
Presentation: Building a Tech State of Mind
February 1, 2023
Thomas R. Belin, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Biostatistics
University of California Los Angeles
Presentation: Maintaining Internal Validity in Community Partnered Participatory Research: Experience from the Community
January 18, 2023
Todd Schwartz, DrPH
Professor of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presentation:Approaches to Modeling Ordinal Categorical Response Variables Through Cumulative Logits
November 17, 2022
Elena Tuzhilina, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
University of Toronto
Presentation: Canonical Correlation Analysis in High Dimensions with Structured Regularization
November 3, 2022
Gen Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Presentation: New Amalgamation-Based Methods for Microbiome Compositional Data Analysis
October 20, 2022
Jennifer Starling, PhD
Statistician
Mathematica
Presentation: Identifying primary care practices with exemplar response to Medicare alternative payment models using individualized Bayesian Causal Forests (iBCF)
October 6, 2022
Bowei Xi, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics
Purdue University
Presentation: Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning and Robust Deep Ensemble
September 22, 2022
Ying Lu, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University
Presentation: Novel Composite Desirability of Outcome Ranking Approach for Patient-Centered Evaluation of Overall Treatment Benefits
September 8, 2022
Sheng Luo, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Duke University
Presentation: Functional Data Analysis: Novel Statistical Methods and Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease Research