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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 Biostat Events.
| 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 | Common atom mixture models in two biostatistical inference problems | Peter Mueller is a professor of statistics and mathematics at UT Austin. |
| 2/17/25 | 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 | Integrative multi-omics multi-context association and causal inference for elucidating genetic mechanisms | Lin Chen is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. |
| 3/3/25 | Data Disaggregation in Health Equity Studies: Past, Present, and Future | Miguel Marino is a professor of biostatistics at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Public Health. |
| 3/10/25 | Modernizing Mixed Model Prediction | 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 | Justified Confidence in highly-consequential AI: Assuring AI-Enabled Systems for the Department of Defense | Jane Pinelis currently serves as the chief AI engineer of the Applied Information Sciences Branch at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). |
| 4/14/25 | A Three-groups Non-local Model for Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources to Identify Genes Associated with Parkinson's Disease | Ben Shaby is an associate professor in the Statistics Department at Colorado State. |
| 4/21/25 | Cancelled | |
| 4/28/25 | Addressing Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies: Insights from Negative Control Methods and Proximal Causal Inference | Xu Shi is an associate professor in Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. |
| 5/5/25 | Master's Thesis Showcase | |
| 5/12/25 | DNA Mixture Interpretation: Past, Present, and Future Needs Through the Lens of a NIST Scientific Foundation Review | John M. Butler is a NIST Fellow & Special Assistant to the Director for Forensic Science. He is an internationally recognized expert in forensic DNA analysis and holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Virginia. |
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