Main ContentBiostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series
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
![Portrait of Heidi Hanson](/Calendar/Events/2024/04/images/Heidi-Hanson.png)
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](/Calendar/Events/2024/03/images/Thomas-Hartung.png)
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](/Calendar/Events/2024/02/images/Kelly-Zou.png)
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
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December 7, 2023
Tommy Naugle, PhD
Data Scientist Team Leader
Rocket Loans
Presentation: Data Science in Practice: Lessons from the Field
![Daniel Byrne](/Calendar/Events/2023/11/images/Daniel-Byrne.png)
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
![Frank Bretz](/Calendar/Events/2023/10/images/Frank-Bretz.png)
October 5, 2023
Frank Bretz, PhD
Distinguished Qualitative Research Scientist
Novartis
Presentation: Graphical Approaches to Multiple Test Problems
![Portrait of Dr. Tianzhong-Yang](/Calendar/Events/2023/09/images/Tianzhong-Yang.jpg)
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
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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
![Portrait of Nashlie Sephus](/Calendar/Events/2023/03/images/Nashlie-Sephus.jpg)
March 22, 2023
Nashlie Sephus, PhD
Principal Tech Evangelist
Amazon
Founder/CEO
The Bean Path
Presentation: Building a Tech State of Mind
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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
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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](/Calendar/Events/2022/11/images/Elena-Tuzhilina.png)
November 17, 2022
Elena Tuzhilina, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
University of Toronto
Presentation: Canonical Correlation Analysis in High Dimensions with Structured Regularization
![Portrait of Gen Li](/Calendar/Events/2022/11/images/Gen-Li.png)
November 3, 2022
Gen Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Presentation: New Amalgamation-Based Methods for Microbiome Compositional Data Analysis
![Portrait of Jennifer Starling](/Calendar/Events/2022/10/images/Yunxi-Zhang.png)
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)
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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
![Sheng Luo](/Calendar/Events/2022/09/images/Sheng-Luo.png)
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