Events Calendar

Dissertation Defense – Sean McGrath

Virtual In Person

Sean will present the dissertation entitled "Inferring Conditional Dependencies in Observational Studies: Nuisance Function Tuning and Transfer Learning". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee, and includes Dr. James Robins, Dr. Brent Coull, Dr. Samuel Kou, and Dr. Rui Duan.

Dissertation Defense – Kevin Chen

Virtual In Person

Kevin will present the dissertation entitled "Causal Inference Methods for Evaluation of Large-Scale Environmental Policy Effects under Complex Treatment Interference". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rachel Nethery, and includes Dr. Francesca Dominici, Dr. Andrew Beam, and Dr. Falco Bargagli Stoffi.

Dissertation Defense – Hui Li

Virtual In Person

Hui will present the dissertation entitled “Powerful Statistical Methods for Precise Heritability Estimation and Partitioning using Summary Statistics”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin, and includes Dr. Rahul Mazumder, Dr. Alkes Price, and Dr. Samuel Kou.

Thesis Defense – Jiaxin Shen

Virtual In Person

Jiaxin will present the thesis entitled “Unsupervised Model Aggregation Methods to Integrate Pre-trained Polygenic Risk Prediction Models". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Duan, and includes Dr. Georg Hahn and Dr. Erin Lake.

Thesis Defense – Minye Zhou

Virtual In Person

Thesis Defense: Minye Zhou Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92207007205 Minye will present the thesis titled “Integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq Data to Elucidate Gene Regulatory Networks”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Lori Chibnik and John Quackenbush.