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Department of Biostatistics Weekly Seminar

The department hosts weekly seminars and workshops for persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, and R. We maintain lists of interest groups, and seminar announcements are emailed as appropriate.

LOCATION: Seminars will be either virtual or hybrid, and details will be noted in the itinerary of the speaker.
TIME: 1:30-2:30 pm on the dates indicated in the calendar below (unless otherwise noted).

Contact Panpan Zhang for information about the seminars and their content.
Contact Cierra Streeter for admin needs/information, such as edits to the wiki page, zoom links, room info, travel info, etc.

Fall 2023

August	Title	Presenter	Venue
August 02	Summer Break			edit
August 9	Summer Break			edit
August 16	Summer Break			edit
August 23	Statistical challenges in modeling infectious disease transmissions among close contact groups	Yang Yang	Hybrid	edit
August 30	Modern Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Overcoming Challenges in Genomic Data	Qihuang Zhang	Virtual	edit

September	Title	Presenter	Venue
September 06	Cancer prognosis analysis via integrating molecular and histopathological imaging features	Shuangge "Steven" Ma	Virtual	edit
September 13	Robust Unsupervised Multi-task and Transfer Learning on Gaussian Mixture Models	Yang Feng	Virtual	edit
September 20	Statistical methods for health system-based cluster trials: experimenting in a finite sample	Michael Harhay	Virtual	edit
September 27	Biostatistics at the FDA	Jennifer Clark	Hybrid	edit

October	Title	Presenter	Venue
October 4	Regression Models of Covariance Matrices	Yi Zhao	Virtual	edit
October 11	Some Reflections on Rosenbaum and Rubins Propensity Score Paper	Roderick Little	Virtual	edit
October 18	PDA: Privacy-preserving Distributed Algorithms and statistical inference in the era of real-world data networks	Yong Chen	Hybrid	edit
October 25	ClusterDE: a post-clustering differential expression (DE) method robust to false-positive inflation caused by double dipping	Jingyi Jessica Li	Virtual	edit

November	Title	Presenter	Venue
November 01	Principles for Designing Complex Data Analyses	Roger Peng	Virtual	edit
November 08 at 9am	AI-Enhanced Integration of Genetic and Medical Imaging Data for Risk Assessment of Type 2 Diabetes	Hsin-Chou Yang	Hybrid	edit
November 08	Crossover and Individual Step-Wedge Study Designs To Estimate Vaccine Efficacy and Durability	Dean Follmann	Virtual	edit
November 15	Interpretable Classification of Categorical Time Series Using the Spectral Envelope and Optimal Scalings	Scott Bruce	Virtual	edit
November 22	No Seminar - Thanksgiving			edit
November 29	Whats It Like To Be A Statistician On A Platform Trial During A Pandemic? My ACTIV4a Experience	Andrew Althouse	Virtual	edit

December	Title	Presenter	Venue
December 06	Mission Imputable: Correcting for Error When Imputing a Censored Covariate	Tanya Garcia	Virtual	edit
December 13	Semiparametric estimation for dynamic networks with shifted connecting intensities	Shizhe Chen	Virtual	edit
December 20	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit
December 27	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit

Spring 2024

January	Title	Presenter	Venue
January 3	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit
January 10	Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments	Dehan Kong	Virtual	edit
Friday, January 12	Dynamic risk assessment by landmark modeling of the restricted mean survival time	Yuan Zhang	Virtual	edit
January 17	Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Time-to-Event Outcomes and Longitudinal Predictors, With Application to the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study	Colin O. Wu	Virtual	edit
Thursday, January 18 at 2:30pm	Cox Models with Auxiliary Outcomes, Left Truncation, and Complex Censoring	Yidan Shi	Virtual	edit
January 24	Time-aware Analyses for Critical Care Electronic Health Records	Anru Zhang	Hybrid (Joint Seminar)	edit
January 31	Can AI deliver on its promise for improving public health? Challenges in the clinical trial setting	Manisha Desai	Virtual	edit

February	Title	Presenter	Venue
February 7	The Paradoxes, Perplexities, and Power of Factor Analysis	Tyler VanderWeele	Virtual	edit
Friday, February 9	Between- and Within-Cluster Spearman Rank Correlations	Shengxin Tu	Hybrid	edit
February 14	PAM-HC:A Bayesian Nonparametric Construction of Hybrid Control for Randomized Clinical Trials Using External Data	Yuan Ji	Virtual	edit
February 16	Statistical Innovations Using Real World Data for Health System Performance Assessment	Jiayi "Jessie" Tong	Virtual	edit
February 21	Regression Frameworks for Brain Network Distance Metrics	Sean L. Simpson	Virtual	edit
February 28	Analyzing Functional Brain Network Changes from Childhood to Old Age: A Study Using HCP-D, HCP-YA, and HCP-A Datasets	Tingting Zhang	Virtual	edit

March	Title	Presenter	Venue
March 6 at 12:30p	LLMs and Active Learning for mRNA Vaccine Optimization	Ziv Bar-Joseph	Virtual	edit
March 13	No Seminar: Spring Break			edit
March 20	Meta-learners to analyze treatment heterogeneity in survival data: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption	Ying Ding	Virtual	edit
March 27	Pooling Data from Individual Clinical Trials in the COVID-19 Era	Andrea Troxel	Virtual	edit

May	Title	Presenter	Venue
May 1	Innovative Applications of Hidden Markov Models in Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics	Paul Albert	Virtual	edit
May 8	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 15	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 22	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 29	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit

June	Title	Presenter	Venue
June 12	Two Applications from One Theoretical Property	Norman Matloff	Hybrid	edit

Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Archives

Click Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Archives for links to previous years.

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Invited Presenter Itineraries

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