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Seminar Series
The Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics hosts a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters of each academic year on Fridays, 11 AM – 12 PM in SPHIS 103 (unless otherwise noted). The seminar schedule below lists speakers for the upcoming semester and has links to abstracts for each seminar. Contact the seminar directors for more information. You can also look at the archived schedule to view speakers from past semesters.
| Spring 2025, Director: Shuoyang Wang, PhD | |
| 1/24/2025 | |
| Speaker: Shih-Ting Huang, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Tuning-free lasso estimator for personalized prediction in medicine" | |
| 1/31/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Muxuang Liang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida | |
| Title: "AI-Powered Medical Decision-making: Learning under Outcome Misclassification" | |
| 2/7/2025 | |
| Speaker: Fei Xue, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Purdue University | |
| Title: "Generalized Heterogeneous Functional Model with Applications to Large-scale Mobile Health Data" | |
| 2/14/2025 | |
| Speaker: Wei Jin, Ph.D., Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Title: "Robust Bayesian Learning for Individualized Treatment Rules Under Unmeasured Confounding" | |
| 2/21/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Yang Wang, Ph.D., Institute of Public Health, Washington University in St Louis | |
| Title: "Semi-supervised Estimation of Event Rate with Doubly-censored Survival Data" | |
| 2/28/2025 | |
| Speaker: Md Yasin Ali Parh, PhD Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Predictor-Informed Bayesian Nonparametric Clustering" | |
| 3/7/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Yunhan Mou, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University | |
| Title: "Enhancing Win Statistics for Testing Composite Endpoints in Clinical Trials" | |
| 3/21/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Mary Lai Salvana, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut | |
| Title: "Multi- and Mixed-Precision Computations for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics" | |
| 3/28/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Jian Cao, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Houston | |
| Title: "Scalable Learning for Censored Gaussian Processes based on Conditional Independence Approximations" | |
| 4/11/2025 (MS Teams only; contact director for meeting details) | |
| Speaker: Chongliang Luo, Ph.D., Department of Surgery, Washington University | |
| Title: "Optimal surrogate-assisted sampling for cost-efficient validation of electronic health record outcomes" | |
