Biostatistics Events

David Vock, PhD, assistant professor in the Divison of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, will present this week's seminar  titled, "Statistical Methods for Regulatory Tobacco Research." Dr. Vock's research focuses on statistical methods development for electronic health data with a particular focus on development of machine learning techniques... Read more »

This week, the Department of Biostatistics is welcoming back a UNC Alumnus, Dr. Suprateek Kundu. His current research focuses on developing flexible tools for Bayesian analysis of high dimensional data motivated by cancer genomics and neuroimaging applications. Some of his recent key focus areas include high dimensional graphical models and variable selection. For further details,... Read more »

The Department of Biostatistics is welcoming Lukas Biewald for his seminar on "Visualization and tracking of hyperparameters during training of deep learning models". Weights and Biases is an experiment tracking platform for deep learning. With a few lines of code, explore how hyperparameters affect model performance in real time, record and visualize every detail of... Read more »

With more than 10 years of experience in the design and conduct of phase I to III clinical trials, Dr. Barry has provided biostatistical leadership working for both contract research organizations and academic institutions. Dr. Barry is currently a co-PI of the NIAID/DAIT-funded Statistical and Clinical Coordinating Center, serving as a Scientific Leader of the... Read more »

Edward Kennedy, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Nonparametric Causal Effects Based on Incremental Propensity Score Interventions." Dr. Kennedy joined Carnegie Mellon as Assistant Professor in 2016. His research interests include causal inference, missing data, functional estimation, machine learning,... Read more »