Main ContentBiostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series
October 3, 2024
Elizabeth Stuart, PhD
Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Chair and Bloomberg Professor of American Health
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presentation: Integrating Data for Causal Inference
September 5, 2024
Rebecca Hubbard, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
School of Public Health
Brown University
Presentation: Not so Fast: Accelerating Precision Medicine with EHR Data While Safeguarding Medically Underserved Populations
September 3, 2024
Md Tareq Ferdous Klan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
Clemson University
Presentations: Study 1: Circadian Blood Pressure Dysregulation in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Study 2: Health outcomes associated with patterns of substance use disorders among patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension: Electronic health record findings
August 20, 2024
Chetkar Jha, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
University of Missouri, Columbia
Presentation: Multiple Hypothesis Testing to Eliminate the Numbers of Communities in Sparse Stochastic Block Models
July 31, 2024
Chaoyang "Joe" Zhang, PhD
Professor
School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi
Presentation: The Transformative Potential of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research and Healthcare
May 28, 2024
Xi "Lucy" Lu, PhD
Department of Statistics
Kansas State University
Presentation: Robust Bayesian Methods to Sparse High-Dimensional Regression
May 8, 2024
Nilabja Guha, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Presentation: Modeling Changes in the Data Generating Distribution: Some Recent Developments and Applications
May 3, 2024
Xinran Qi, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
Presentation: Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Hypothesis Testing Problems Structured with Side Information
May 2, 2024
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA
Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics
Chair, Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Yale University
Presentation: AI in Medicine
April 19, 2024
Keith Dillon, PhD
Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Presentation: Certifiable Learning for Imaging and Vision
April 17, 2024
Yuqiu "Ian" Yang
PhD Candidate
MS Department of Statistics and Data Science
Southern Methodist University
Presentation: Linking immune-informatics research at the molecular scale to the population scale
April 3, 2024
Heidi Hanson, PhD
Group Leader of Biostatics and Multilevel Systems Modeling
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Presentation: Disease Detection at the Speed of Life: Near Real-Time Disease Surveillance at Population Scale
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
February 1, 2024
Kelly H. Zou, PhD, PStat®, FASA
Head
Global Medical Analytics and Real-World Evidence, and Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Viatris Inc.
Presentation: Optimizing Patient Care through Real-World Evidence and Artificial Intelligence
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