Seminar Series

Upcoming Speakers

October 25, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Karen Kafadar
Commonwealth Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia

November 1, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Heping Zhang
Susan Dwight Bliss Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University

November 22, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Ting Ye
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

December 6, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Ji-Hyun Lee
Professor & Associate Director for Cancer Quantitative Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida

January 24, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Matteo Bonvini
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University

Previous Speakers

September 13, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Qianqian Song
Assistant Professor of College of Medicine & Director of Translational Bioinformatics, Department of MD-HOBI-General and Department of Health Outcomes, College of Medicine, University of Florida

August 23, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Sohom Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida

August 30, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Yi Guo
Associate Professor of Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, Associate Director of the Office of Data Science Research of the OneFlorida+ clinical research network, and Director of the Cancer Informatics Shared Resource in the UF Health Cancer Center. University of Florida

May 24, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Michael R. Kosorok
W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Professor of Department of Biostatistics, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 26, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Shuangge Steven Ma
Department Chair and Professor of Biostatistics, Affiliated Faculty, Director of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Yale Institute for Global Health

March 22, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Sai  Zhang
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

February 23, 2024 (CTRB 2161)
Lan Wang
Centennial Endowed Chair Professor, Department Chair, Department of Management Science, Miami Herbert Business School, University of MiamiJanuary 26, 2024 (CTRB 2161)

Alan Agresti
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
Title: “Simple Ways to Interpret Effects in Modeling Binary and Original Data”

December 1, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Jing Huang
Assistant Professor of Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Associate Director of Observational Research
Title: “Time-Since-Infection Models for Modeling Infectious Diseases”

November 16, 2023 (CTRB 5235)
Kerry Costello
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
Title: “Exploring The Role of Joint Loading in Musculoskeletal Health: Complexities of Human Movement Data Analysis ”

November 3, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Naitee Ting
Director of Department of Biostatistics, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Fellow of American Statistical Association
Title: “What is A Clinical Trial”

October 27, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Mingzhang Yin
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Marketing, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida
Title: “Estimating Individual Treatment Effects under Unmeasured Confounding”

September 29, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Yunan Wu
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Title: “Model-Assisted Uniformly Inference for Optimal Treatment Regimes in High Dimension”

August 25, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Takis Benos
William Bushnell Presidential Chaired Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas
Title: “Interpretable Machine Learning Models and Multi-scale Medical Research”

April 7, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Ying Guo
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
Title: “Statistical Methods for Reliable Mapping of Human Brain Connectome”

April 14, 2023 (CTRB 5235)
Xiang Zhu
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State University
Title: “Complex Trait Genetics Through the Lens of Sequence-conserved Enhancer-like Elements”

March 31, 2023 (CTRB 2161)
Judy Wang
Department Chair & Professor of Statistics, George Washington University
Title: “Semiparametric Approach for Analyzing Non-Gaussian Spatial Data”

February 24, 2023 – 11:00am (CTRB 2161)
Michael Fay (NIH/National Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

January 27, 2023 – 11:00am (CTRB 2161)
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Title: “Periodontal Health: Precision Medicine Approaches”

December 2, 2022 – 11:00am (CTRB 5235)
Jong-Min Kim (Univ. of Minnesota-Morris)
Title: Copula and It’s Applications

November, 2023 – 11:00am (CTRB 5235)
Indranil Mukhopadyay (ISI)
Professor of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Title: Pseudotime Reconstruction and Downstream Analysis Based On Single Cell RNA-seq Data

October 28, 2022 – 11am (Zoom)
Marina Vannucci (Rice) Join Zoom Meeting 11:00am-12:00pm

Noah Harding Professor, Department of Statistics, Rice University
Title: A Bayesian Joint Model for Mediation Effect Selection in Compositional Microbiome Data

October 14, 2022 – 11am (Zoom)
Ian McKeague (Columbia Univ.)

August 26, 2022 (CTRB 2161)
Juan Diego Hernandez Jarquin
Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Florida
Title: Genomic Prediction Models Including Interactions Between Multiple-Omics with Potential Applications in Personalized Medicine

June 3, 2022 – 12:15pm (CTRB 2161)
Yushu Shi (University of Missouri, Department of Statistics)
Title: Bayesian Knockoff Generators for Complex Data Structure

April 15, 2022 – 12:15pm (CTRB 2161)
Bikram Karmakar (UF, Department of Statistics)
Title: Replication and Evidence Factors for Causal Inference from Observational Studies: The Case of Multiple, Possible Invalid, Instruments

April 13, 2022 (CTRB 2161 & Zoom)
AI Faculty Candidate
Li Chen (Indiana University)
Title: Novel deep learning approaches for analyzing genetic variants by integrating genotype and multi-omics data
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92656160783?from=addon Meeting ID: 926 5616 0783

April 8, 2022 – 11:30am (Zoom only)
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA)
Title: On Massively Scalable Spatial Process Models for High-Resolution Actigraph Data
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94029446171 Meeting ID: 940 2944 6171