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Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series

Elizabeth StuartOctober 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


Portrait of Rebecca Hubbard

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


Portrait of Mohammed Tareq Ferdous KhanSeptember 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


Portrait of Dr. Chetkar JhaAugust 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


Portrait of Chaoyang "Joe" Zhang

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


Portrait of Dr. Xi "Lucy" LuMay 28, 2024

Xi "Lucy" Lu, PhD
Department of Statistics
Kansas State University

Presentation: Robust Bayesian Methods to Sparse High-Dimensional Regression


Portrait of Dr. Nilabja GuhaMay 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


Portrait of Dr. Xinran QiMay 3, 2024

Xinran Qi, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University

Presentation: Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Hypothesis Testing Problems Structured with Side Information


Portrait of Dr. Ohno-MachadoMay 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


Portrait of Dr. Keith DillonApril 19, 2024

Keith Dillon, PhD
Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Presentation: Certifiable Learning for Imaging and Vision


Portrait of Yuqiu “Ian” YangApril 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


Portrait of Heidi Hanson

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


Portrait of Thomas Hartung

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


Portrait of Kelly Zou

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 


Tommy Naugle

December 7, 2023

Tommy Naugle, PhD
Data Scientist Team Leader
Rocket Loans

PresentationData Science in Practice: Lessons from the Field 


Daniel Byrne

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

PresentationArtificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes – the Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial is the Secret Sauce


Frank Bretz

October 5, 2023 

Frank Bretz, PhD
Distinguished Qualitative Research Scientist
Novartis

PresentationGraphical Approaches to Multiple Test Problems


Portrait of Dr. Tianzhong-Yang

September 7, 2023 

Tianzhong Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
University of Minnesota

PresentationSubset Scanning For Multi-Trait Analysis Using GWAS Summary Statistics


Portrait of Dr. David Kaplan

April 5, 2023 

David Kaplan, PhD
Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin – Madison

PresentationBayesian Methods for Borrowing Historical Information with Applications to the Analysis of Large-Scale Assessments


Portrait of Nashlie Sephus

March 22, 2023

Nashlie Sephus, PhD
Principal Tech Evangelist
Amazon
Founder/CEO
The Bean Path

PresentationBuilding a Tech State of Mind


Portrait of Thomas Belin

February 1, 2023 

Thomas R. Belin, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Biostatistics
University of California Los Angeles

PresentationMaintaining Internal Validity in Community Partnered Participatory Research: Experience from the Community


Portrait of Todd Schwartz

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


Portrait of Elena Tuzhilina

November 17, 2022

Elena Tuzhilina, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
University of Toronto

PresentationCanonical Correlation Analysis in High Dimensions with Structured Regularization


Portrait of Gen Li

November 3, 2022

Gen Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan

PresentationNew Amalgamation-Based Methods for Microbiome Compositional Data Analysis


Portrait of Jennifer Starling

October 20, 2022 

Jennifer Starling, PhD
Statistician
Mathematica

PresentationIdentifying primary care practices with exemplar response to Medicare alternative payment models using individualized Bayesian Causal Forests (iBCF)


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October 6, 2022

Bowei Xi, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics
Purdue University

PresentationVulnerabilities of Deep Learning and Robust Deep Ensemble


 Portrait of Dr. Ying LuSeptember 22, 2022 

Ying Lu, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University

PresentationNovel Composite Desirability of Outcome Ranking Approach for Patient-Centered Evaluation of Overall Treatment Benefits


Sheng Luo

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