Upcoming Defense Schedule

Yulei Wang Thesis Defense
Monday, May 1, 2017, 1:00 PM, Bldg 2, Rm 401
Yulei will present her Master’s thesis on “Studying Life Rhythmicity Among Mood Disorder Patients with Smartphone Sensor Data”.  Her committee is chaired by Dr. JP Onnela.

Jessica Gronsbell Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 1:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 426
Jessica will present her dissertation on “Robust and Efficient Machine Learning Methods for the Analysis of Electronic Medical Records Data”.  His/her committee is chaired by Dr. Tianxi Cai.

Yu Evelyn Zheng Dissertation Defense
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 10:00 AM, Bldg 2 Room 426
Yu will present her dissertation on “Efficient Assessment of Individualized Disease Risk and Treatment Response via Augmentation”.  Her committee is chaired by Dr. Tianxi Cai.

Boyu Ren Dissertation Defense
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 1:30 PM, FXB G11.
Boyu will present his dissertation on “Bayesian Statistical Framework for High-Dimensional Count Data and Its Application in Microbiome Studies”.  His committee is chaired by Dr. Lorenzo Trippa.

Sixing Chen Dissertation Defense
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 3:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 426
Sixing will present his dissertation on “Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection for Complex Data”.  His committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin.

Katherine Evans Dissertation Defense
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 3:30 PM, FXB G13
Kathy will present his/her dissertation on “Contributions to Semiparametric Methods for Incomplete Data”.  His/her committee is chaired by Dr. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen.

Abhinav Reddy Thesis Defense
Monday, May 8, 2017, 9:30 AM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Abhinav will present his Master’s thesis on “Multi-Tissue eQTL Analysis and Cross-Tissue Heritability Weighting in Coronary Artery Disease”.  His thesis advisor is Dr. Liming Liang.

Wei Yu Thesis Defense
Monday, May 8, 2017, 1:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Wei will present his Master’s thesis on “Detection of Breast Cancer based on Mammography by Machine Learning”.  His thesis advisor is Dr. John Quackenbush.

Liu Cao Thesis Defense
Monday, May 8, 2017, 2:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Liu will present his Master’s thesis on “Radiomics and Gene Regulatory Network”.  His thesis advisor is Dr. John Quackenbush.

Xue Zou Thesis Defense
Monday, May 8, 2017, 3:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Xue will present her Master’s thesis on “T Cell Repertoire Analysis for Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Treated with Anti-PD1 Reagent”.  Her thesis advisor is Dr. Xiaole Shirley Liu.

Benny Ren Thesis Defense
Monday, May 8, 2017, 4:00 PM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Benny will present his Master’s thesis on “Tissue Specific Regulators due to Genetic Variation in Biological Networks”. His thesis advisor is Dr. Megha Padi.

Yaguang Wei Thesis Defense
Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 3:30 PM, Bldg 2 Room 401
Yaguang will present his Master’s thesis on “Chronic Effects of Seasonal Temperature on Dementia Admissions”.  His committee is chaired by Dr. Francesca Dominici.