Biostatistics Events

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 »

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 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 »

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 the age of Big Data is the integration of disparate data types into a data analysis. That is tackled here in the context of data blocks measured... 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 diseases, prevalence has been carefully studied. In the “classic” paradigm, the prevalence of different diseases has usually been studied separately. Accumulating evidences have shown that diseases can be... Read more »

Jamie Perin, the 2018 James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will be presenting her award lecture for this week's biostatistics seminar. The lecture is titled, "Predicting child mortality by... Read more »

Susan Homes, PhD, professor of statistics and member of BioX at Stanford University, will present this week's Biostatistics seminar titled, "Robust methods for heterogeneous data collected in studies of the... Read more »

Join the Department of Biostatistics in welcoming Dr. Rudin, who directs the Prediction Analysis Lab at Duke University. Previously, Dr. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, and NYU. She holds... Read more »