Archive

Spring 2024
Director: Mike Sekula, PhD, Dongfeng Wu, PhD

1/26/2024
Speaker: Fernanda Schumacher, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Ohio State University

2/9/2024
Speaker: James Belmonte, Staff Data Scientist – Causal Inference, Covera Health

2/16/2024
Speaker: Ashley Petersen, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota

2/23/2024
Speaker: Bryan Blette, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

3/1/2024
Speaker: Douglas Darnowski, Ph.D., Sts Therese and Isidore Farm College

3/8/2024
Speaker: Jun Xie, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, Purdue University

3/29/2024
Speaker: Wei-Wen Hsu, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

4/12/2024
Speaker: Maiying Kong, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

4/19/2024
Speaker: Felix Pabon-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine


Fall 2023
Director: Mike Sekula, PhD

9/1/2023
Speaker: Yong Zang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University
Title: "A Generalized Phase 1-2-3 Design integrating Dose Optimization with Confirmatory Treatment Comparison"

9/8/2023
Speaker: Xiaoran Tong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Innovation in Population Health, University of Kentucky
Title: "A machine learning assisted process to build interpretable decision support models from large data: standardize the decision-making in child welfare"

10/6/2023
Speaker: Anish Mukherjee, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Modeling Zero-Inflated Count Data with Spatio-Temporal Correlations through Gaussian copulas and Approximate Bayesian Computing"

10/20/2023
Speaker: Dayu Sun, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University, School of Medicine
Title: "Partial Tensor Regression"

10/27/2023
Speaker: Suvo Chatterjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington
Title: "New statistical models to address current challenges in differential analysis of omics data"

11/10/2023
Speaker: Jinyuan Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Feature Aggregation in Causal Discovery for High-dimensional Data: Application to Targeting the ‘Gut-Brain-Axis’ via the Microbiome Diversity"

11/17/2023
Speaker: Sean McCabe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: "Integrating functional annotations to empower rare variant set by environmental interactions in large biobank datasets"


Spring 2023
Director: Mike Sekula, PhD

1/20/2023 (Remote seminar via Zoom - contact Mike Sekula, PhD for meeting information)
Speaker: Jeong Hoon Jang, PhD, Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University
Title: "A functional quantile regression model for predicting hypoglycemic events using continuous glucose monitoring data"

1/27/2023
Speaker: Doug Lorenz, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Development and Internal Validation of a Prediction Rule for Radiographic Pneumonia in the Pediatric ED"

2/3/2023
Speaker: Raul Cruz-Cano, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington
Title: "A neural network based early warning system to enhance community resilience against diarrheal disease"

2/24/2023
Speaker: Triparna Poddar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Louisville
Title: "Estimation of Average treatment effect for Survival Outcomes with Continuous Treatment In Observational Studies"

3/3/2023
Speaker: Michael Sekula, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Detection of differentially expressed genes in discrete single-cell RNA sequencing data using a hurdle model with correlated random effects"

3/10/2023
Speaker: Uthpala Wanigasekera, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Bayesian methods for causal inference and propensity scores"

3/24/2023
Speaker: Carly E. Middleton, Ph.D. student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Assessment of positive selection across SARS-CoV-2 variants via maximum likelihood approaches and a continuous-time approximation to the Wright-Fisher diffusion model"

3/31/2023
Speaker: Huirong Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Statistical methods for assessing treatment effects on ordinal outcomes using observational data"

4/7/2023 (VIRTUAL ONLY VIA ZOOM - Contact Sharmin Sumy for Zoom information)
Speaker: Rameela Ramdan, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medical
Title: "Prescription monitoring in the child welfare system and its challenges"

4/21/2023
Speaker: Hongbin Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Statistical methods for complex longitudinal data"


Fall 2022
Director: Mike Sekula, PhD

9/9/2022
Speaker: Debamita Kundu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia
Title: "Bayesian Inference of Chemical Mixtures in Risk Assessment Incorporating the Hierarchical Principle"

9/16/2022
Speaker: Meredith Duncan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Modeling the Lifetime Risk of Smoking on Cardiovascular Disease"

9/23/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
Speaker: Arinjita Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., Biostatistics & Research Decision Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc.
Title: "A Two-Part Tweedie Model for Differential Analysis of Omics Data"

10/7/2022
Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Quantiles-based Personalized Treatment for Multivariate Outcomes"

10/14/2022
Speaker: Fang Li, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI
Title: "An Optimal Subsampling Method for Massive Penalized Spline Single Index Models"

10/21/2022
Speaker: Christopher McLouth, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "A Day in the Life of a Collaborative Biostatistician"

11/4/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
Speaker: Raghu Pasupathy, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Title: "Batching for Confidence Regions on the Steady State Quantile Field"

11/7/2022 (NOTE THE SPECIAL MONDAY SESSION)
Speaker: Arnab Ganguly, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Title: "Non-Parametric learning of stochastic dynamical systems"

11/11/2022
Speaker: Irina Kondaurova, PhD Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Acceptance of ARNA robot by nursing professionals: an experimental case study"

11/18/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
Speaker: Shilin Zhao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Integrative analysis of spatial transcriptome data with tissue morphology deep features by stiImage"


Spring 2022
Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.

1/21/2022
Speaker: Michael Sekula, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Single-cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models"

1/28/2022
Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "A Bayesian nonparametric model for classification of longitudinal profiles"

2/4/2022 (CANCELLED (Weather); Rescheduled for TBA)
Speaker: Sha Cao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University
Title: "Statistical models for spatial transcriptomics data to study cell cell interactions"

2/11/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
Speaker: Amir Asiaee, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Identification and comparison of genes differentially regulated by transcription factors and miRNAs"

2/18/2022
Speaker: Sha Cao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University
Title: "Statistical models for spatial transcriptomics data to study cell cell interactions"

2/25/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
Speaker: Fei Xue, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Title: "Statistical inference for high-dimensional block-wise missing data"

3/4/2022
Speaker: Maiying Kong, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Introduction of causal inference and use of propensity scores"

3/11/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103)
Speaker: Amber J Hackstadt, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: "Estimating Hazard Rate and Risk in Large Public Studies"

3/25/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103)
Speaker: Travis S. Johnson, PhD, MSPH, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: "Identifying high risk components of disease from single cell, spatial, and imaging data"

4/1/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
Speaker: Honglang Wang, PhD, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Title: "Multivariate partial linear varying coefficients model for gene-environment interactions with multiple longitudinal traits"

4/15/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103)
Speaker: Qian Xu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Doubly Robust Methods for Identifying Effect Modifiers and Estimating Optimal Treatment based on Observational Data"


Fall 2021
Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.

8/27/2021
Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "An Introduction to the Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC) at UofL"

9/3/2021
Speaker: Fangzheng Xie, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University
Title: "Central limit theorems for spectral estimators and their one-step refinement for sparse random graphs"

9/10/2021 (REMOTE - Contact Sharmin Sumy for Zoom link)
Speaker: Andrew Spiker, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Methods to evaluate the role of engagement with mobile interventions"

9/17/2021 (CANCELLED - To be rescheduled)
Speaker: Olga Vsevolozhskaya, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "DOT: Gene-set analysis by combining decorrelated association statistics"

9/24/2021
Speaker: Sarah Kendrick, Ph.D., Informatics Lead, Humana
Title: "Life After Grad School - Working in Corporate America"

10/1/2021
Speaker: Giorgos Bakoyannis, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Title: "Nonparametric tests for multistate processes with clustered data"

10/8/2021
Speaker: Ruben Adatorwovor, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "On Estimating Dependent Net or Relative Survival: A Parametric Approach"

10/15/2021
Speaker: Sudaraka Tholkage, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Conditional Kaplan-Meier Estimator with Functional Covariates for Survival Data"

10/22/2021
Speaker: Won Chang, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
Title: "Bayesian Model Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis for Oscillating Biological Experiments"

11/5/2021
Speaker: Dongfeng Wu, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Dynamic scheduling of the upcoming screening when sensitivity is a function of sojourn time"

11/12/2021
Speaker: Sagnik Bhadury, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Bayesian methodology for Graphical Models with Neighborhood Selection"

12/3/2021
Speaker: Siddhesh Kulkarni, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "A Bayesian Methodology for Estimation for Sparse Canonical Correlation"


Spring 2021
Director: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD

1/15/2021
Speaker: Stephanie Hicks, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell data science"

1/22/2021
Speaker: Rebecca C. Steorts, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Title: "(Almost) All of Entity Resolution"

1/29/2021
Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "htestClust: A R package for hypothesis tests for clustered data under informative cluster size"

2/5/2021
Speaker: Soutik Ghosal, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Title: "Placement-value based Bayesian ROC curve methodologies and brief applications on enforcing a priori constraints"

2/12/2021
Speaker: Antonio Linero, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Bayesian Decision Tree Ensembling Strategies for Nonparametric Problems"

2/19/2021
Speaker: You Wu, PhD, Biostatistics Manager at Amgen
Title: "Statisticians in Biotechnology Company"

2/26/2021
Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Personalized Treatment Selection using Data from Crossover Designs with Carry Over Effects"

3/12/2021
Speaker: Md Nazir Uddin, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Bayesian Variable Selection Strategies in Longitudinal Mixture Models and Categorical Regression Problems"

3/19/2021
Speaker: Farhin Rahman, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Inference of Sojourn Time and Transition Density using the NLST X-ray Screening Data in Lung Cancer"

3/26/2021
Speaker: Qian Xu, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Statistics Methods for Assessing Drug Interactions Using Observational Data"


Fall 2020
Director: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD

8/28/2020 (2PM)
Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: TBA

9/4/2020
Speaker: Yuan Ji, Ph.D., Department of Health Sciences, University of Chicago
Title: "Semiparametric Bayesian Inference for the Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 with a State-Space Model"

9/11/2020
Speaker: John Craycroft, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Bayesian causal inference using MCMC sampling approach"

9/18/2020
Speaker: Arkendu Chatterjee, Ph.D., Biostatistics Department, Bristol Myers Squibb
Title: "Improving Prediction of Overall Survival using Joint Modeling Approach"

9/25/2020
Speaker: Susmita Datta, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida
Title: "Unraveling city-specific signature for MetaSUB microbiome data"

10/2/2020
Speaker: David Benkeser, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
Title: "At warp speed: statistics and COVID-19 vaccine development"

10/9/2020
Speaker: Rebecca Steorts, Ph.D., Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Title: "Entity Resolution with Societal Impacts in Machine Learning"

10/16/2020
Speaker: Shu Yang, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Title: "Test-based Integrative Analysis of Randomized Trial and Real-World Data for Treatment Heterogeneity Estimation"

10/23/2020
Speaker: Chenguang Yang, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Leveraging Real-World Data in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis"

10/30/2020 (10AM)
Speaker: John Craycroft, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Aspects of Causal Inference"

11/6/2020
Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
POSTPONED

11/13/2020
Speaker: Fei Tan, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI
Title: "Massive Data Regression In GEEs Via A-optimal Subsampling"

11/20/2020
Speaker: Nazir Uddin, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Shared Bayesian Variable Shrinkage in Multinomial Logistic Regression Model"


Spring 2020
Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD

1/17/2020
Speaker: Subhadip Pal, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "The Modified-Half-Normal Distribution: Pertinency, Properties and an Efficient Sampling Scheme"

1/24/2020
Speaker: Ligong Chen, MD, MPH,Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Science
Title: "About Self-weight of Continuous Random Variable"

2/7/2020
Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "A Longitudinal Bayesian Mixed Effects Model with Hurdle Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distribution"

2/14/2020
Speaker: Chenlong Ye, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Sparsity Oriented Importance Learning for High-dimensional Linear Regression"

2/28/2020
Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University Of Louisville
Title: "Directed Acyclic Graph Assisted Methods For Estimating Average Treatment Effect"

Remaining sessions cancelled due to pandemic restrictions

Fall 2019
Director: Qi Zheng, PhD

8/23/2019
Speaker: Wentao Gu, Ph.D., Zhejiang Gongshang University, China and Indiana University
Title: "What Causes the Influence of Bank Channel towards Corporate Investment: Liquidity or Economic Policy Uncertainty?"

8/30/2019
Speaker: Emily Slade, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Pitfalls and Recommendations for Handling Missing Data in Canonical Correlation Analysis"

9/6/2019
Speaker: Mike Sekula, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "A sparse Bayesian factor model for the construction of gene co-expression networks from single-cell RNA sequencing count data"

9/13/2019
Speaker: Qi Zheng, Ph.D, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Globally Adaptive Longitudinal Quantile Regression with High Dimensional Compositional Covariates"

9/20/2019
Speaker: Julia Fukuyama, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University
Title: "Phylogenetically-informed distance methods for microbiome data analysis"

9/27/2019
Speaker: William Scott Sanders, PhD, Department of Communication, University of Louisville
Title: "The Collection, Analysis, and Quirks of Social Media Data"

10/4/2019
Speaker: Molu Shi, Senior Cognitive/Machine Learning Professional, Humana
Title: "Opening black-box models for better clinical intervention"

10/11/2019
Speaker: Anna Smith, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Prediction scoring for measuring the replicability of data-driven discoveries"

10/18/2019
Speaker: Philip Westgate, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Study Design and Statistical Analysis Options for Cluster Randomized Trials: Examples Based on the Proposed HEALing Communities Study - Kentucky"

11/1/2019
Speaker: Ruiqi Liu, Ph.D., Biostatistician, Medpace
Title: "Analysis of Data Sets with Missing Values in Clinical Trials"

11/8/2019
Speaker: Xiaofang Yan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University Of Louisville
Title: "Weighted test and test for multiple group comparisons in observational studies"

11/15/2019
Speaker: Bereket Kindo, PhD, Humana
Title: "Bayesian estimation of sums of sparse and dense signals"

11/22/2019, 10:30AM
Speaker: Arnold Stromberg, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Better Prediction Using Machine Learning and Regression Models"

Spring 2019
Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD

1/18/2019
Speaker:Subhadip Pal, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Data Augmentation Algorithms for Bayesian Analysis of Directional Data"

1/25/2019
Speaker: Xuan Cao, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
Title: "Consistent Bayesian Joint Variable and DAG Selection in High Dimensions "

2/1/2019
Speaker: Andrew Brown, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University
Title: "Statistical and inferential issues in nutrition and obesity research: opportunities for quantitative reasoning"

2/8/2019
Speaker: Debamita Kundu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Novel Bayesian Methodology In Multivariate Problems"

2/15/2019
Speaker: Jaroslaw Harezlak, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University
Title: "Brain Connectivity-Informed Adaptive Regularization for Generalized Outcomes"

2/22/2019
Speaker: Chungfeng Huang, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University
Title: "Intrinsic random functions on the sphere"

3/1/2019
Speaker: Brendan Depue, Ph.D., Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville
Title: "Neural Correlates Involved in Down Regulating Negative Memory and Emotion"

3/8/2019
Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "The Modified-Half-Normal distribution: properties and efficient sampling scheme"

3/22/2019
Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Selection of the Optimal Personalized Treatment from Multiple Treatments with Multivariate Outcome Measures"

3/29/2019
Speaker: Seongho Song, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
Title: "Flexible link functions in a joint model of binary and longitudinal data"

4/5/2019
Speaker: Mike Sekula, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinfomatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: TBA

4/12/2019
Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
Title: "Faculty salary analysis based on mixtures of two-way time series models"

4/19/2019
Speaker: Daniel Manrique-Vallier, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University
Title: "Simultaneous Edit and Imputation for Categorical Microdata"


Fall 2018 Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD

8/31/2018
Speaker:Dongfeng Wu, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Dynamic Scheduling of the Upcoming Exam Using Existing Screening Data and Personal Screening History"

9/7/2018
Speaker: Jasmit Shah, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Why are Missing Values Important? Novel Approach for Imputing Missing Values in High Dimensional Data"

9/14/2018
Speaker: Philip Westgate, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Small-Sample Issues in Cluster Randomized Trials"

9/21/2018
Speaker: Kathrine Thompson, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Incorrect model selection using R2 and AIC in big data analyses"

9/28/2018
Speaker: Nianjin Liu, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University
Title: "Associating Multivariate Quantitative Phenotypes with Genetic Variants in Family Samples"

10/5/2018
No Seminar

10/12/2018
No Seminar

10/19/2018
Speaker: Derek Young, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Hyperrectangular Tolerance and Prediction Regions for Setting Multivariate Reference Regions in Laboratory Medicine"

10/26/2018
Speaker: Xiaofang Yan, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville
Title: "Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Among Multiple Treatment Groups by Using an Ensemble Approach"

11/2/2018
Speaker: Tatsuki Koyama, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Title: "What we don’t talk about when we talk about biostatistics: Challenges in data merging and treatment definition in a large-scale observational study."

11/9/2018
Speaker: Chi Wang, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "Differential Abundance Analysis for Proteomic and Metabolomic Data"

11/16/2018
No Seminar

11/23/2018
No Seminar

11/30/2018
Speaker: CANCELED - Speaker conflict


Spring 2018 Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD

1/19/2018
Title: "A Bayesian Framework for Modeling Data on the Stiefel Manifold"
Speaker: Subhadip Pal, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

1/26/2018
Title: "Spatiotemporal mixed effect modeling and its applications"
Speaker: Soutik Ghosal, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

2/2/2018
Title: "Model Transfer Across Additive Manufacturing Processes via Mean Effect Equivalence of Lurking Variables"
Speaker: Arman Sabbaghi,PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

2/16/2018
Title: "Spatiotemporal mixed effect modeling and its applications"
Speaker: Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

2/23/2018
Title: TBA
Speaker: Ming Li, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington

3/16/2018
No Seminar: Spring Break

3/23/2018
Title: "Computation of Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Negative Binomial Distribution"
Speaker: Ryan Gill, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville

3/30/2018
Title: "Studying crime trends in the United States in the 21st century"
Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville

4/6/2018
Title: "A spatial Bayesian approach to cortical surface task FMRI analysis"
Speaker: Amanda Mejia, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington

4/13/2018
Title: "A Bayesian double fusion spatio-temporal model for resting-state brain connectivity using joint functional and structural data"
Speaker: Hakmook Kang, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

4/20/2018
Title: "Bayesian variable selection for multi-outcome models through shared shrinkage"
Speaker: Debamita Kundu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville


Fall 2017 Directors: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD and Subhadip Pal, PhD

9/1/2017
Title: "An Introduction to High Performance Computing at UofL"
Speaker: Doug Lorenz, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

9/8/2017
Title: "Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes"
Speaker: Vinayak Rao, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Purdue University

9/15/2017
Title: "Design and Analysis of Two-Phase Studies with Applications to Genetic Association Studies"
Speaker: Ran Tao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

9/22/2017
Title: "Default Bayes and Prediction Problems with Global-Local Shrinkage Priors"
Speaker: Anindya Bhadra, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

9/29/2017
Title: "Bayesian sharp minimaxity via FDR penalization"
Speaker: Qifan Song, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

10/6/2017
Title: "Statistical Tests for Interactions and Main Effects in Two-Factor Unbalanced Cross-Classified Fixed Effects Experiments with No Data in Some Cells"
Speaker: Mike Kutner, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University

10/13/2017
No Seminar due to Kentucky Chapter of the American Statistical Association Meeting

10/20/2017
Seminar cancelled - speaker conflict

10/27/2017
Title: "Hurdle Model with Correlated Random Effects for Differential Expression of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data"
Speaker: Mike Sekula, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

11/3/2017
Title: "Treatment Effect Estimate and Model Diagnostics with Two-way Time-Varying Treatment Switching: an application to a head and neck study"
Speaker: Qingxia Chen, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

11/10/2017
Title: "Evaluation of a two-step iterative resampling procedure for internal validation of genome-wide association studies"
Speaker: Kumar Srivastava, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

11/17/2017
Title: "The Matryoshka Prior and Goldilocks’ Penalization for Bayesian Regression"
Speaker: Andy Womack, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington

12/1/2017
Title: TBA
Speaker: Dave Fardo, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky


Spring 2017 Director: Qi Zheng, Ph.D.

1/20/2017
Title: "Survival Impact Index and Ultrahigh-dimensional Model-free Biomarker Screening with Survival Outcomes"
Speaker: Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

1/27/2017
Title: "Propensity Scores Based Methods for Estimating Average Treatment Effect and Average Treatment Effect Among Treated: A Comparative Study"
Speaker: Maiying Kong, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

2/3/2017
Title: "Assessment of variable contribution in model-based clustering through variation partition"
Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, PhDh, Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville

2/10/2017
Title: "Disease Classification from Longitudinal Data using Bayesian Nonparametrics"
Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

2/17/2017
Title: "Flexible Modeling in Generalized Linear Regression Models"
Speaker: Xia Wang, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati

2/24/2017
Title: "Novel Computational approaches for some key problems involving large-scale biological data"
Speaker: Subhajit Sengupta, PhD, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

3/3/2017
Title: "Nonparametric goodness-of-fit tests for uniform stochastic ordering"
Speaker: Dewei Wang, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina

3/10/2017
Title: "Bayesian Multivariate Gamma-Frailty Cox Model For Clustered Current Status Data"
Speaker: Seongho Song, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati

3/24/2017
Title: "Estimation and Comparison of Environmental Exposure Distributions in Presence of Detection Limits"
Speaker: Li Chen, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky

3/31/2017
Title: "A new class of measures for testing independence"
Speaker: Xiangrong Yin, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky

4/7/2017
Title: "A Distributional ICA Model for Analyzing Multimodal Neuroimaging Data"
Speaker: Subhadip Pal, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

4/14/2017
Title: "Examine treatment effect for ordinal outcome when confounding covariates exist"
Speaker: You Wu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

4/21/2017
ASA Kentucky Chapter Meeting
Location: Clinical and Translational Research Building 101/102, 505 S. Hancock St.


Fall 2016 Director: Qi Zheng, Ph.D.

9/9/2016
"Censored quantile regression in high dimensional survival data"
Qi Zheng, University of Louisville

9/16/2016
"Network Dynamics of Network Interventions: A Multilevel Meta Network Analysis"
Weihua An, Indiana University

9/23/2016
"Recurrent Event Data Analysis With Intermittently Observed Time-Varying Covariates"
Shangshan Li, IUPUI

9/30/2016
"Tree-based methods in personalized medicine"
Ruoqing Zhi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

10/7/2016
"Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome Weighted Learning"
Guanhua Chen, Vanderbilt University

10/14/2016
"Building Bayesian Models in Python with PyMC3"
Chris Fonnesbeck, Vanderbilt University

10/21/2016
"Multiple imputation to construct a data bank from a collection of studies"
Elly Kaizar, Ohio State University

11/4/2016
"Approximation-regularization for the analysis of large data sets"
Daniel McDonald, Indiana University

11/11/2016
"Characterizing uncertainty in genetic association landscapes by functional Bayesian bands: Application to pleiotropic effects of CSF levels of Alzheimer’s disease proteins"
Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya , University of Kentucky

12/2/2016
"A marginal log rank test for clustered data under informative within-cluster group size"
Doug Lorenz, University of Louisville


Spring 2016 Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.

1/15/2016
"Propensity scores based methods for estimating average treatment effect and average treatment effect among treated: A comparative review"
Younathan Abdia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

1/29/2016
"Personalized Plans with Multiple Treatments"
Chathura Siriwardhana, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

2/5/2016
"Estimation of the Average Causal Effect while Accounting for Uncertainty in Confounder and Effect Modifier Selection"
Chi Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky

2/12/2016
"Nonparametric Estimation of Phylogenetic Tree Distributions"
Ruriko (Rudy) Yoshida, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky

2/19/2016
"Covariate-adjusted Spearman's rank correlation with probability-scale residuals"
Bryan Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

3/4/2016
"Early phase development in clinical trials: What have we accomplished and where do we need to go?"
Emily Dressler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky

3/24/2016
"High-Dimensional Nonparametric ODE Models for Dynamic Gene Regulation Networks"
Tao Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, State University of New York, Albany

3/25/2016
"Applications of a Bayesian Hypothesis Testing Framework to the Analysis of Genetic Data"
Claudio Fuentes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University

3/28/2016
"Some Aspects of the Bayesian Adaptive Non-Inferiority Trial Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research"
Samiran Ghosh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University

3/30/2016
"Adaptive designs for phase II cancer clinical trials"
Guogen Shan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of the Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4/8/2016
"Multi-scale methods for analyses of functional phenotypes arising from high-throughput sequencing assays"
Heejung Shim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

4/15/2016
"Nonparametric Inference with Misclassified Competing Risks Data"
Ying Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, IUPUI


Fall 2015 Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.

9/11/2015
"Robust analyses of over-dispersed counts with varying follow-up in small samples and rare diseases"
Frank Konietschke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas

9/18/2015
"Bayesian Model Selection Under Heredity Constraints"
Andrew Womack, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Indiana University

9/25/2015
"Outcome related sampling designs for longitudinal binary data with application to spirometry-based COPD diagnosis"
Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

10/2/2015
"Distance-weighted Support Vector Machine"
Lingsong Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

10/9/2015
"A multivariate semiparametric regression model and its application in studies of hypertension"
Wanzhu Tu, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine

10/16/2015
"Spatial Analysis of High-Resolution Regional Climate-Change Projection over North America"
Emily Kang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Cincinnati

10/30/2015
"Marginal regression models for clustered count data based on zero-inflated Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution with applications"
Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

11/6/2015
"Inference of Long Term Outcomes and Over-diagnosis in Periodic Cancer Screening"
Dongfeng Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

11/13/2015
"Developments in statistical application and methodology resulting from scientific collaborations"
Julia Sharp, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University

12/4/2015
"High-dimensional Matrix Linear Regression Model"
Dehan Kong, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina

12/11/2015
"Spatiotemporal modeling with applications to stroke mortality and data privacy"
Harrison Quick, Ph.D., Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Spring 2015

Director: Susmita Datta, Ph.D.


3/27/15
"Quantitative trait mapping methods with complex data sets"
Kathrine Thompson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky

3/13/15
"Utility of Sequentially Monitored Response-Adaptive Designs for Multi-Center Clinical Trials"
Mi-Ok Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2/27/15
"Systems biology of the clock"
Jonathan Arnold, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics and Department of Statistics, University of Georgia

2/26/15
"Globally Adaptive Quantile Regression with High Dimensional Data"
Qi Zheng, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

1/30/15
"Modeling of Correlated Objects with Application to Detection of Metastatic Cancer using Functional CT Imaging"
Yuan Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas

1/23/15
"Multi-Sample Reweighted U-Statistics that Account for Confounding Covariates"
Somnath Datta, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville

1/16/15
"Cluster Adjusted Regression for Displaced Subject Data (CARDS): Marginal Inference under Potentially Informative Temporal Cluster Size Profiles"
Joe Bible, PhD candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville


Fall 2014

Director: Somnath Datta, Ph.D.


11/7/14
"Information in a Two-Stage Adaptive Optimal Design"
Adam Lane, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

10/31/14
"GEE type inference for clustered zero-inflated negative binomial regression with application to dental caries"
Maiying Kong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville

10/17/14
"Model Identification in Computational Systems Biology"
Eberhard O. Voit, PhD, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

10/3/14
"Real-Time Prediction in Clinical Trials: A Statistical History of REMATCH"
Daniel F. Heitjan, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

9/19/14
"Inverse Probability of Censoring Weighted U-statistics for Right-Censored Data with an Application to Testing Hypotheses"
Somnath Datta, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

9/12/14
"Evaluation of predictive accuracy measures in clinical data with competing risks"
Guy Brock, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville

9/5/14
"Sequential SDR for Large p Small n Problems"
Xiangrong Yin, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky

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