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.

Fall 2025,  Director: Shuoyang Wang, PhD

8/29/2025
Speaker: Xinyi Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Title: "Precision medicine in Alzheimer's Disease: incorporating abundant features"

9/5/2025
Speaker: Wei Fu, PhD, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, University of Louisville
Title: "Capping the First Script: Initial Opioid Prescription Limits and Intimate Partner Violence"

9/19/2025
Speaker: Zhou Lan, PhD, Investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Title: "Statistics and Machine Learning Methods for Diffusion MRI Data"

10/10/2025
Speaker: Selena Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Title: "Neuroimaging connectivity analysis needs network science for brain-behavior linking"

10/17/2025
Speaker: Chuanpeng Dong, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Title: "Computational Genomics Topics in the AI Era"

10/24/2025
Speaker: Zeya Wang, PhD and Bing Zhang, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Title: "How to validate deep clustering in learning: challenges and solutions"

10/31/2025
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

11/7/2025
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

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