Conferences & Events
Room locations
- ACB1.2345 is the Telehealth Conference Room on the first floor of the Ambulatory Clinic Building / Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic
- ACB1.2325 is a room adjacent to the Telehealth Conference Room
- CPB8.3059 is a conference room on the eighth floor of the Cancer Prevention Building / Dan L. Duncan Building
- FC1.2002 is the AT&T Classroom on the first floor of the John Mendelsohn Faculty Center
- FCT conference rooms are in the T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower
2017-2018 Guest Seminars
September 20, 2017
Daniel Kowal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Dynamic shrinkage process
October 25, 2017
Michael C. Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Biostatistics & Biomathematics Program
Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Statistical methods for correlating microbiomic and other -omic data
November 10, 2017
Jianqing Fan, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Robust inference for high-dimensional data with application to false discovery rate control
December 6, 2017
Fei Zou, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bagging and deep learning in optimal individualized treatment rules and semiparametric regression modeling
December 13, 2017
Ganggang Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, New York
Quasi-likelihood for bivariate point processes
January 31, 2018
Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
Chief of Biostatistics Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Clinical trial designs for precision medicine: Baskets, umbrellas, and still no free lunch
February 21, 2018
Laura Hatfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Methods for difference-in-difference studies
March 7, 2018
Martin Lindquist, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Brain signatures and models in translational neuroimaging
March 14, 2018
Irina Gaynanova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Structural learning and integrative decomposition of multi-view data
May 2, 2018
Philip Rausch
Research Scholar
Department of Psychology
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Introducing the BayesFMM package for R and a novel approach to writing R wrappers for running MATLAB® code
May 16, 2018
Gary Chan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Empirical balancing scores and balancing weights
June 6, 2018
Andrew G. Chapple, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A hybrid, phase I-II/III clinical trial design allowing for dose re-optimization in phase III
Biostatistics Grand Rounds
December 7, 2017
Yang Ni, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics and Data Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Integrative gene networks: Precision medicine and public health (slide presentation with audio)
November 30, 2017
Zihuai He, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
New York, New York
A semi-supervised approach for predicting organism-level and cell-type-/tissue-specific functional consequences of non-coding variation (slide presentation with audio)
October 11, 2017
Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Statistical challenges, opportunities and strategies in large-scale medical studies
September 12, 2017
Donald A. Berry, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Rigor and reproducibility
Previous Grand Rounds:
February 23, 2017
Guanhua Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Statistical learning for heterogeneous biomedical data (Slide presentation with audio)
February 15, 2017
Yong Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lessons from integrating biomedical data (Slide presentation with audio)
February 8, 2017
Dongjun Chung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
The Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
GPA Suite: A comprehensive toolkit for prioritization of GWAS results and investigation of pleiotropic architecture (Slide presentation with audio)
December 20, 2016
Yifei Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Recurrent marker process with application to health economics (Slide presentation without audio)
November 29, 2016
Abhra Sarkar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Statistical issues and methods for research in nutrition and neuroscience (Slide presentation with audio)