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... 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... 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... Read more »
This week, the Biostatistics department is welcoming Dr. Jonathan Berg, a UNC physician and researcher in the Department of Genetics interested in the development and application of genetic tests in patients and their families. The recent revolution in genetic sequencing technology has led to an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the underlying etiology in families with... Read more »
Hongtu Zhu, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will present this "Modern Statistical Methods in Ride-sharing Platforms and other IT companies." Dr. Hongtu Zhu, has a broad background in statistics, biostatistics, medical imaging, genetics and computational neuroscience, with specific training and expertise in neuroimaging data analysis and big data integration as well as secondary... Read more »
Subhajit Dutta, PhD, Pranab K. Sen Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will present this "Adjustments of some distance based classifiers in HDLSS settings." Dr. Dutta's research interests include discriminant analysis, inference based on data depth, characterization of multivariate distributions and classification of sequence data, and he will be at the Gillings School... Read more »
Leslie McClure, PhD, professor and chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, will present "A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Sample Size Re-estimation: The SPS3 Experience," Methodologically, Dr. McClure is interested in the design and analysis of randomized clinical trials with multiple outcomes, and methodology for re-estimating sample size in... Read more »
Kai Zhang will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "BET on Independence." Kai Zhang, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC. Abstract: We study the problem of nonparametric dependence detection. Many existing methods may suffer severe power loss due to non-uniform consistency, which we illustrate with a paradox. To avoid... Read more »
This week's biostatistics seminar will be presented by Nathan Kallus, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. Kallas will present a seminar titled "Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement." Abstract: Since observational data no matter how rich will have some unobserved confounding, methods for individualized decision making that assume unconfoundedness... Read more »
Chuanhai Liu, PhD, professor of statistics at Purdue University, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "A Multithreaded and Distributed R for Big Data Analysis." Abstract: The computer software R is one of the most popular computing tools for data analysis. In the past decade or so, tremendous efforts have been made to make R useful for... Read more »
Nancy Zhang, PhD, professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics." Abstract: Cells are the basic biological units of multicellular organisms. The development of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies have enabled us to study the diversity of cell types in tissue and to elucidate the... Read more »
