Events Calendar

Dissertation Defense – Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi

Virtual In Person

Patrick will present the dissertation entitled "Interpretable Statistical Learning for Real-World Behavioral Data". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Jukka-Pekka Onnela and Dr. Junwei Lu, and includes Dr. Susan Murphy.

Dissertation Defense – Beau Coker

Virtual In Person

Beau will present the dissertation entitled "Misspecification, Nonstationarity, and Approximate Inference in Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Neural Networks". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Brent Coull and Dr. Finale Doshi-Velez, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee.

Dissertation Defense – Shuting Shen

Virtual In Person

Shuting will present the dissertation entitled "Large Scale Inference with Theoretical Guarantees under Various Distributed Settings". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin and Dr. Junwei Lu, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee and Dr. Samuel Kou.

Dissertation Defense – Wenying Deng

Virtual In Person

Wenying will present the dissertation entitled "A Gaussian-process Framework for Nonlinear Statistical Inference Using Modern Machine Learning Models". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Brent Coull, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee, Dr. Andrew Beam, and Dr. Jeremiah Zhe Liu.

Dissertation Defense – Luli Zou

Virtual In Person

Luli will present the dissertation entitled "Statistical and Computational Methods for Spatial and Regulatory Genomics". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Martin Aryee and Dr. Rafael Irizarry, and includes Dr. Kathleen Burns and Dr. Bradley Bernstein.

Dissertation Defense – Isabella Grabski

Virtual In Person

Isabella will present the dissertation entitled "TBD". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Giovanni Parmigiani and Dr. Rafael Irizarry, and includes Dr. Lorenzo Trippa, and Dr. Jeffrey Miller.

Dissertation Defense – Nathan Huey

Virtual In Person

Nathan will present the dissertation entitled "On Inference in High-Dimensional Settings via De-sparsifying Techniques with Applications in Genomics". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee and Dr. Brent Coull, and includes Dr. Junwei Lu, and Dr. Christoph Lange.

Dissertation Defense – Octavious Smiley

In Person

Octavious will present the dissertation entitled “Inference for Mechanistic Network Models and Visualization of Real-World Network Data”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. JP Onnela, and includes Dr. Xihong Lin, and Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee.

Dissertation Defense – Gopal Kotecha

Virtual In Person

Gopal will present the dissertation entitled “Methods for the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Uncertainty Directed Randomization and Data Synthesis”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Lorenzo Trippa, and includes Dr. Steffen Ventz and Dr. Briana Stephenson.

Dissertation Defense – Yige Li

Virtual In Person

Yige will present the dissertation entitled “Toward Robust and Transparent Estimation of the Effects of Time-Dependent Interventions". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. José Zubizarreta, and includes Dr. Miguel Hernán and Dr. Tyler VanderWeele.