Events Calendar

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.

PQG Seminar

In Person

Joel Bader Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Connecting GWAS SNPs to causal genes by integrating information across loci Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been powerful in identifying genetic variants, usually single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), associated with biomedical traits. These SNPs (or other correlated SNPs in the region) usually affect the regulation or function … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"

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.

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar

Virtual In Person

Anuraag Gopaluni Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Methods for accurate real-time estimates of death in the context of reporting delays" ABSTRACT: State-level mortality data in the United States is subject to reporting delays of up to 18 weeks, causing gaps between reported and true mortality in the short-term. Existing methods for correcting gaps … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"

Thesis Defense – Lauren Flynn

Virtual

Thesis Defense: Lauren Flynn Time: Monday May 8, 2023, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93710427859 Lauren will present the thesis titled “Affected-only Modeling of Familial Cancer Risk”. The thesis committee is chaired by Danielle Braun and includes Giovanni Parmigiani and Peter Kraft.

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.