Events Calendar

HIV Working Group

Virtual

Daniel J. Escudero, Ph.D, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center "Developing an HIV model to assess the epidemiologic impact of HIV treatment and prevention in Miami" ABSTRACT: For this talk, we will go through the development of an agent-based model of HIV transmission. This ongoing work is foundational to … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"

Thesis Defense – Yujie Zhang

Virtual

Thesis Defense - Yujie Zhang Time: Friday, April 28, 2023 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time Location: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99404923372 Yujie will present the thesis defense titled "Assessing the Performance of Coloc and Finemapping Approaches for testing GWAS-eQTL Colocalization". The thesis committee will be chaired by Hailiang Huang and includes Peter Kraft and John Quackenbush.

Thesis Defense – Qingru Xu

Virtual

Thesis Defense - Qingru Xu Time: Friday April 28, 2023 at 02:00 PM Eastern Time Location: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92890587626 Qingru will present the thesis titled "Genomic Approaches to Therapeutic Target Discovery in Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma (tRCC)". The thesis committee will be co-chaired by Srinivas Viswanathan and Chengzhong Zhang and includes John Quackenbush.

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.

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar

Virtual

Daniel Schwartz, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Harmonized Estimation of Subgroup Specific Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials: The Use of External Control Data" ABSTRACT: Subgroup analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) constitute an important component of the drug development process in precision medicine. However, these subgroup analyses … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"

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.