Biostatistics Events

Robert Gentleman, PhD, will present a seminar titled, "Using genetic data to identify potential causal disease genes." Dr. Gentleman’s career has spanned more than 30 years. Prior to 23andMe, he was a Director at Genentech. At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he was the Head of the Computational Biology Department. Dr. Gentleman served as... Read more »

Xinyi Li, PhD, will present a seminar titled, "Sparse Learning for Image-on-Scalar Regression with Application to Imaging Genetics Studies."\ Motivated by recent advances in technology for medical imaging and high-throughput genotyping, we consider an imaging genetics approach to discover relationships between the interplay of genetic variation and environmental factors and measurements from imaging phenotypes. We... Read more »

Andrew Gordon Wilson, PhD, assistant professor at Cornell University, will present a seminar titled "Uncertainty, Loss Valleys, and Generalization in Deep Learning." Abstract: In this talk, we approach model construction from a probabilistic perspective. First, we introduce a scalable Gaussian process framework capable of learning expressive kernel functions on large datasets, implemented in our new... Read more »