As we approach the holiday season, I would like to express my warmest appreciation to faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, alumni, and friends of the Harvard Biostatistics Department for your … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin”
The Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Program had another productive year under the directorship of Professor Rebecca Betensky. The 29 Catalyst statisticians provided over 875 consultations to investigators at 28 Harvard-affiliated institutions. … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst 2016 Summary”
The Department was busy this past year concentrating on the development of several educational initiatives. We launched a new Masters program in Health Data Science, with the first cohort scheduled … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Brent Coull”
Continuing the work initiated by Bahaa Abalkhail and Jim Ware, the King Abdulaziz University MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology Program continues to grow under the able guidance of Marcello Pagano, … Continue reading “KAU Collaboration in 2016”
The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core had another productive year under the leadership of Shannan Ho Sui. We were excited to recruit Dr. Victor Barrera from Madrid with his expertise in epigenetics and pipeline … Continue reading “Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core – 2016 Summary”
In a recent hearing on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) of the Senate Commerce Committee, the Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew Moore, … Continue reading “Statistics as a Building Block for Artificial Intelligence”
Please join us for a special presentation by a group of statisticians from the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim on Friday, December 9 at noon in the Biostats Conference Room. The group will … Continue reading “Special Seminar with Boehringer Ingelheim”
Assistant Professor JP Onnela has just launched his new HarvardX online course, Using Python for Research. This course will bridge the gap between introductory and advanced courses in Python by … Continue reading “New Online Course – Using Python for Research”
Please visit the BSCC website for more information! Doctoral student Emily Slade received a grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching to create the Biostatistics Student Consulting Center … Continue reading “Biostatistics Student Consulting Center”