Seminars
The Division of Biostatistics seminar series includes research-focused talks by visiting faculty from a wide range of institutions, and faculty from the University of Minnesota. All seminars are free and open to the public. Biostatistics students organize the Student Seminar Series, where students present and discuss their work in progress.
| Date/Time/Location | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sept 15, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Abhi Datta | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Mortality Estimation Using Predicted Cause-of-Death Data from Verbal Autopsies |
| Wed, Sept 22, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Eric Feczko | University of Minnesota | The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Brain Imaging Data Structure Community Collection (ABCC): A Community Share for the ABCD Neuroimaging Data |
| Wed, Sept 29, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Lu Tang | University of Pittsburgh | Leveraging Models from Heterogeneous Data Sources to Improve Personalized Treatment Effect Estimation |
| Wed, Oct 6, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Hilary Parker | Independent Consultant | Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art & Science |
| Wed, Oct 20, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Eric Daza | Evidation Health | MoTR and PSTn: Building a Causal Engine for Estimating the Within-Individual Average Treatment Effect Using Wearable Sensors |
| Wed, Oct 27, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Chap T. Le | University of Minnesota | Public Health Statistics: Weighted Statistics and Weighted Statistical Methods |
| Wed, Nov 3, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Ken Rice | University of Washington | Knowing the Signs: Testing Made Simple and Coherent |
| Wed, Nov 17, 2021 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Peng Ding | University of California, Berkeley | Model-Assisted Analyses of Cluster-Randomized Experiments |
| Fri, Nov 19, 2021 11:00 a.m. CCBR Ballroom and Online via Zoom |
Biyue Dai | Eli Lilly and Company | Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Prognostic Biomarker Signatures with a Survival Endpoint |
| Wed, Jan 12, 2022 3:30 p.m. Moos 2-520 and Online via Zoom |
Jue Hou | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Winning Strategy in Real-world Evidence: Intelligent Medicine with Electronic Health Records |
| Wed, Jan 19, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Steffen Ventz | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Adaptive Statistical Designs for Subpopulation-Driven Biomedical Experiments |
| Mon, Jan 24, 2022 3:30 p.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Chong Wu | Florida State University | Accounting for Winner’s Curse and Pleiotropy in Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization |
| Wed, Jan 26, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Lu Zhang | Columbia University | Spatial Factor Modeling: A Bayesian Matrix-Normal Approach for Massive Spatial Data with Missing Observations |
| Mon, Jan 31, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Thierry Chekouo | University of Calgary | Integrative Bayesian Methods for Omics and Imaging Data: Application to Cardiovascular and Glioblastoma Diseases |
| Wed, Feb 2, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Jian Hu | University of Pennsylvania | Deciphering Tissue Microenvironment From Next Generation Sequencing Data |
| Mon, Feb 7, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Nima Hejazi | Weill Cornell Medicine | Efficiently Evaluating the Causal Impacts of Continuous Exposures in Vaccine Trials |
| Thurs, Feb 10, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Caitlin Ward | University of Calgary | Sound the Alarm: Modeling Behavioral Changes in Response to Epidemic Intensity |
| Fri, Feb 11, 2022 10:00 a.m. Online via Zoom |
Emily Roberts | University of Michigan | Surrogacy Validation with Longitudinal Outcomes for a Gene Therapy |
| Mon, Feb 14, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Jinyuan Liu | University of California, San Diego | Semiparametric Regression Models for Between- and Within-subject Attributes: Applications to High-Dimensional Data, Asymptotic Efficiency and Beyond |
| Wed, Feb 16, 2022 3:30 p.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Wodan Ling | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome-Profiling Studies: Batch Effect and Robust Testing |
| Mon, Feb 21, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Benjamin Langworthy | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Principal Components Analysis for Right-Censored Data |
| Wed, Feb 23, 2022 3:30 p.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Charles Spanbauer | University of Minnesota | Bayesian Regression Tree Models for Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression With High Dimensionality Applied to Genome Wide Causal Inference |
| Fri, Feb 25, 2022 10:00 a.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Shikun Wang | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Joint Analysis of Longitudinal and Survival data in Large EHR Datasets |
| Fri, Mar 4, 2022 10:00 a.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Hua He | Tulane University | Statistical Analysis of Censored Data Due to Detection Limits |
| Mon, Mar 7, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Thomas Braun | University of Michigan | Revisiting Adaptive Methodology for Identifying Non-Toxic Immunotherapy Regimens |
| Tues, Mar 15, 2022 3:30 p.m. Mayo 3-100 and Online via Zoom |
Xianghua Luo | University of Minnesota | Statistical Methods for Behavioral Economics Data in Tobacco Research |
| Fri, Mar 18, 2022 9:00 a.m. Online via Zoom |
J. Sunil Rao | University of Miami | A Tour of Classified Mixed Model Predictions and Projections |
| Wed, Mar 30, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Felicity Enders | Mayo Clinic | Hidden Curriculum: Expanding Our Toolbox to Help Diverse and Majority Trainees and Junior Faculty |
| Wed, Apr 20, 2022 3:30 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Yifei Sun | Columbia University | Dynamic Risk Prediction Triggered by Intermediate Events Using Survival Tree Ensembles |
| Wed, Apr 27, 2022 3:00 p.m. Online via Zoom |
Tyler VanderWeele | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Simplifying and Unifying Sensitivity Analysis |
