Harvard Catalyst Journal Club with Kush Kapur

“Functional data analysis using smoothing splines” Tuesday, July 18th 12:30pm – 1:30pm Bldg 2, Rm 426  Kush Kapur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Senior Biostatistician … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Journal Club with Kush Kapur”

Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

Thursday, July 20th DFCI, Smith Building, rooms 308/309 Check-in @ 8:30am Program 9am-4pm RSVP NOW! Knashawn Morales – Keynote Speaker Dept Alum, Sc.D. ’01 Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”

Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense

Friday, July 14th 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM FXB FXB-G10 Yered Pita-Juarez will present his dissertation on “Three Aspects of Gene Expression: Pathway Coexpression, Cross-Species Analysis of RNA-seq Data, and … Continue reading “Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense”

2017 Myrto Award Winner: Ciprian Crainiceanu

We are very excited to announce that Dr. Ciprian Crainiceanu will be this year’s recipient of the 2017 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship. Dr. Crainiceanu will be presented with the award and will deliver a lecture … Continue reading “2017 Myrto Award Winner: Ciprian Crainiceanu”

Nick Horton: Lagakos Alumni Award Winner

We are extremely proud to announce that Dr. Nicholas Horton, ScD ’99, will be this year’s recipient of the annual Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Horton will be presented with the award and … Continue reading “Nick Horton: Lagakos Alumni Award Winner”

Amstat News Profiles Data Science Program

Rafael Irizarry recently answered questions for the June edition of Amstat News profiling universities’ new master’s programs in data science and analytics. In describing the motivation for the Department’s new SM in Health Data Science, … Continue reading “Amstat News Profiles Data Science Program”