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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.

DATETITLE (CLICK TITLE TO REGISTER)SPEAKER
9/16/24Sensitivity analysis for trials with irregular and informative assessment times; Identify Molecular Biomarkers through Spatial GenomicsBonnie Smith and Boyi Guo are postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
9/23/24Estimation 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 PopulationZiqiao Wang and Harsh Parikh are postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
9/30/24A robust, scalable K-statistic for quantifying immune cell clustering in spatial proteomics dataJulia Wrobel is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
10/7/24A 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.
10/21/24Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluationEli 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.
11/4/24MHS Showcase (in person only)Paul Rebman (PhD student in Mental Health), Jinqi Zhan (PhD student in Epidemiology) and Kening Jiang (PhD student in Epidemiology).
11/11/24Proximal Causal Inference With Text DataRohit Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Williams College.
11/18/24TBA; Pre-Register via ZoomRazieh Nabi is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
12/9/24TBA; Pre-Register via ZoomOliver Bear Don't Walk IV is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.
2/24/25TBALin Chen, is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago.
3/3/25TBAMiguel Marino is an associate professor in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Public Health, where he holds a joint appointment in the Biostatistics Group, and a professor of Family Medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine.
3/10/25TBAJ. 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.
3/31/25TBAJane Pinelis serves as the chief AI engineer of the Applied Information Sciences Branch at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). 
4/7/25TBAJohn 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.
4/14/25TBABen Shaby is an Associate Professor in the Statistics Department at Colorado State.
4/21/25TBATBA
4/28/25TBAXu Shi is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health.
5/5/25Master's Thesis Showcase 

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