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... 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... 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... 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:... 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... 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... 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 »
Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops... Read more »
Jan Hannig, PhD, professor of statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)." A major challenge in... Read more »
Shuangge Ma, PhD, professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence." For all... Read more »
Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and... Read more »
