Events Calendar

Dissertation Defense – Hali Hambridge

Virtual In Person

Hali will present the dissertation entitled “Methods for High-Fidelity Epidemic Simulations on Time-Varying Networks”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and includes Dr. Marc Lipsitch, and Dr. Jeffrey Miller.

Dissertation Defense – Jemar Bather

Virtual In Person

Jemar will present the dissertation entitled “Contributions to Design and Analysis of Pediatric HIV Studies”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Paige Williams, and includes Dr. Sonia Hernández-Díaz, Dr. ‪Christopher Sudfeld‬, and Dr. Brent Coull.

Dissertation Defense – Daniel Li

Virtual

Daniel will present the dissertation entitled “Methods for Complex Observational Study Data”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee, Dr. Rui Duan, and Dr. Brent Coull.

Dissertation Defense – Lara Maleyeff

Virtual In Person

Lara will present the dissertation entitled "Assessing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Cluster Randomized Trials". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Wang, and includes Dr. Sebastien Haneuse, and Dr. Fan Li.

Dissertation Defense – Larry Han

Virtual In Person

Larry will present the dissertation entitled "On Causal Inference in Real World Settings". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Tianxi Cai and Dr. Lorenzo Trippa, and includes Dr. Sebastian Schneeweiss, and Dr. Rui Duan.

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.