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Current Biostatistics Seminars
Monday Seminar Series
Join us for our weekly seminars led by biostatistics experts, covering a wide-range of topics.
All Biostatistics seminars are held at 12:05 p.m., via Zoom (registration required) and onsite (see events pages for Room numbers).
Click the title to register via the events page. For questions email Kara Friedman.
| DATE | TITLE (CLICK TITLE TO REGISTER) | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 9/16/24 | Sensitivity analysis for trials with irregular and informative assessment times; Identify Molecular Biomarkers through Spatial Genomics | Bonnie Smith and Boyi Guo are postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 9/23/24 | Estimation of Direct and Indirect Polygenic Effects and Gene-Environment Interactions using Polygenic Scores in Case-Parent Trio Studies; Who Are We Missing? A Principled Approach to Characterizing the Underrepresented Population | Ziqiao Wang and Harsh Parikh are postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 9/30/24 | A robust, scalable K-statistic for quantifying immune cell clustering in spatial proteomics data | Julia Wrobel is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. |
| 10/7/24 | A martingale theory of evidence (Joint seminar with the Hopkins Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics) | Aaditya Ramdas is an associate professor in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| 10/21/24 | Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation | Eli Ben-Michael is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Heinz College of Information Systems & Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| 11/4/24 | MHS Showcase (in person only) | Paul Rebman (PhD student in Mental Health), Jinqi Zhan (PhD student in Epidemiology) and Kening Jiang (PhD student in Epidemiology). |
| 11/11/24 | Proximal Causal Inference With Text Data | Rohit Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Williams College. |
| 11/18/24 | Estimation of constrained statistical functionals for fair machine learning | Razieh Nabi is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. |
| 12/9/24 | Opportunities for Incorporating Intersectionality into Biomedical Informatics with Applications to HIV Outcome Prediction | Oliver Bear Don't Walk IV is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington. |
| 1/16/25 | Making machines to learn biology from single-cell omics data | Xuegong Zhang is Professor of Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, and Adjunct Professor of the School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine. |
| 2/10/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | Abhirup Datta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Agbessi Amouzou is a Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 2/17/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | Stephanie Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Keri Martinowich is a Senior Investigator, Lieber Institute, and Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. |
| 2/24/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | Lin Chen, is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. |
| 3/3/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | Miguel Marino is an professor of biostatistics at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Public Health. |
| 3/10/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | J. Sunil Rao is a professor in the Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science and the Director of Biostatistics, Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. |
| 3/31/25 | TBA; Pre-register via Zoom. | Jane Pinelis is the Chief Scientist, Special Operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. |
| 4/7/25 | TBA | John Butler is an National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fellow & Special Assistant to the Director for Forensic Science at the U.S. Department of Commerce. |
| 4/14/25 | TBA | Ben Shaby is an associate professor in the Statistics Department at Colorado State. |
| 4/21/25 | TBA | TBA |
| 4/28/25 | TBA | Xu Shi is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. |
| 5/5/25 | Master's Thesis Showcase |