Each event features 4 rounds of 5-minute talks by department faculty & postdocs. This is a great opportunity to get a quick snapshot of current department research in a relaxed, social setting.

Next Round of Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks Archive

April 4th, 2024
Building 2, Room 426

Falco Bargagli Stoff
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Biostatistics
Jung Wun Lee
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Biostatistics
Michael Hughes
Professor of Biostatistics, Dept. of Biostatistics
Junwei Lu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Dept. of Biostatistics
Rachel Nethery
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics

December 7th, 2023
Building 2, Room 426

Mauricio Tec
Research Associate, Dept. of Biostatistics
Michael Wojnowicz
Research Associate, Dept. of Biostatistics
Rafael Irizarry
Chair of the Dept. of Data Sciences at Dana-Farber Professor of Applied Statistics at Harvard and Dana-Farber Professor of Biostatistics, Dept. of Biostatistics
Junwei Lu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Dept. of Biostatistics

Thursday, December 1, 2022
Building 2, Room 426 | 4PM

Tianxi Cai
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Jonas Fisher
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Briana Stephenson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Georg Hahn
Research Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Nima Hejazi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Junwei Lu
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Mauricio Tec
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Friday, March 4, 2022

Georg Hahn
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Sally Paganin
Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Briana Stephenson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Friday, February 4, 2022

Izzie Fulcher
Data Fellow at the Harvard Data Science Initiative
Rachel Nethery
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Meg Short
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Tamar Sofer
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Biostatistician and Director of the Biostatistics core of the program in Sleep Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Friday, October 8, 2021

Jue (Marquis) Hou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Adam Haber
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology and Environmental Health &
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Biostatistics
Jeff Miller

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics
Rui Duan
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics

Friday, September 10, 2021

Tian Gu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Marouen Ben Guebila
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Martin Hemberg

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Giovanni Parmigiani
Professor, Dept of Data Science, DFCI and Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
Associate Director for Population Sciences, DF/HCC

Friday, May 7, 2021

Kyu Ha Lee
Assistant Professor of Integrative Genomic Epidemiology
Depts of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Lorenzo Trippa
Associate Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics & Comp Bio, DFCI
Tanayott (Tony) Thaweethai
Instructor of Investigation, MGH Biostatistics Center
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Friday, April 9, 2021

Hugo Aerts
Associate Professor, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Director, Program for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)
Anna Beukenhorst
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Rebekka Burkholz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Francesca Dominici
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population & Data Science and Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative

Friday, March 5, 2021

Rafael Irizarry, Professor of Applied Statistics
Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics
Junwei Lu, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Rachel Nethery, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
John Quackenbush, Chair & Professor of Computational Biology
Briana Stephenson, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Rui Duan
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH
Radhika Khetani
Research Scientist & Training Director, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
LJ Wei
Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH
Haoyu Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH

Friday, October 9, 2020

Pierre Bushel

Adjunct Lecturer on Biostatistics, HSPH
Staff Scientist, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, NIH/NIEHS
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS
Rachel Nethery
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Deborah Weighill
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Thursday, September 10, 2020

These talks were streamed remotely and not recorded.

Francesca Dominici
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population & Data Science and Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative
Georg Hahn
Research Associate, Harvard University
Andi Shi
Biostatistics PhD student, Harvard University
Zack McCaw
Department alumnus, Data Scientist at Google

Friday, May 8, 2020

These talks were streamed remotely and not recorded.

Shannan Ho Sui
Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
Rafa Irizarry
Chair of the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Applied Statistics at Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
John Platig
Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Friday, April 3, 2020

These talks were streamed remotely and not recorded.

Aedin Culhane
Senior Research Scientist, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Senior Research Scientist, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
Adam Haber
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology and Environmental Health
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
X. Shirley Liu
Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
Co-director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jose R. Zubizarreta
Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics (by courtesy), Harvard University

Friday, December 13, 2019

Marouen Ben Guebila – Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Jeff Miller – Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics
Corbin Quick – Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics

November 15, 2019

- Christine Choirat, Chief Innovation Officer of the Swiss Data Science Center, and Adjunct Lecturer on Biostatistics at the Harvard Chan School and the Harvard Extension School
- Danielle Braun, Research Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
- Georg Hahn, Research Associate, Harvard University
- Tamar Sofer, Associate Biostatistician and Director of the Biostatistics core of the program in Sleep Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
October 11, 2019
- - Andrea Foulkes – Director of the Biostatistics Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, and faculty appointment in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  - Jonathan Huggins – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
  - Sharon-Lise Normand – S. James Adelstein Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics), Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
  - Boyu Ren – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
  May 1, 2019
  - - Fangxin Hong – Senior Research Scientist in Biostatistics, HSPH & DFCI
    - Kwonsang Lee – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Lorenzo Trippa – Associate Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH & DFCI
    - Yaoyu Wang – Director of Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, HSPH
    April 4, 2019
    - Mei Sheng Duh – Pharmacoepidemiologist & Managing Principal, The Analysis Group
    - Sebastien Haneuse, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Lucas Henneman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Jamie Robins, Mitchell L. & Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology, Depts of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    March 6, 2019
    - Rebekka Burkholz, Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Rajarshi Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Rachel Nethery, Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - LJ Wei – Professor of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics, HSPH
    February 7, 2019
    - Garrett Fitzmaurice, Professor of Psychiatry (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
    - Elysia Larson, Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, HCSPH
    - Steven Piantadosi, Associate Senior Biostatistician, Surgical Oncology, Brigham And Women’s Hospital
    - Bella Vakulenko-Lagun, Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, HCSPH
    December 6, 2018
    - Christine Choirat, Senior Research Scientist, HCSPH & Institute for Quantitative Social Science
    - Kimberly Glass, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    - Alkes Price, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Depts of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    - Luwan Zhang, Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics
    November 7, 2018
    - Bethany Hedt-Gautheir – Associate Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine, HMS & Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Sharon-Lise Normand – S. James Adelstein Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS & Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH
    - Heather Mattie – Instructor of Data Science & Executive Director, Master’s Program in Health Data Science
    - Molin Wang – Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Depts of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    September 5, 2018
    - Camila Lopes-Ramos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics & Comp Bio, DFCI
    - Junwei Lu, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics
    - John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Prof of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics & Chair
    - Michele Zemplenyi, Doctoral Candidate, President of the Biostatistics Student Consulting Center
    May 10, 2018
    - Michael Hughes, Professor of Biostatistics & Director, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research
    - Xihong Lin, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics &
      Chair, Department of Biostatistics
    - Franziska Michor,Professor of Computational Biology, Dept of Biostatistics & Comp Bio, DFCI
    - Paige Williams, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics & Director of Graduate Studies, Biostatistics
    April 12, 2018
    - Scott Carter, Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Dept of Biostatistics
    - Pete Kraft, Professor of Epidemiology, Depts of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    - Bob Glynn, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics
    - Jamie Robins, Mitchell L. & Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology, Depts of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
    February 8, 2018
    - Donna Spiegelman, Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, Depts of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Nutrition
    - Tyler VanderWeele, Professor of Epidemiology, Depts of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    - JP Onnela, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics
    - Liming Liang, Associate Professor of Statistical Genetics, Depts of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    December 14, 2017
    - Miguel Hernan, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
    - X. Shirley Liu, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at HSPH & Director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics at DFCI
    - Judith Lok, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    - Giovanni Parmigiani, Chair, DFCI Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
    November 9, 2017
    - Curtis Huttenhower, Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    - Rafa Irizarry, Professor of Applied Statistics at Harvard & DFCI
    - Cyrus Mehta, Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics / President, Cytel Software Corporation
    - Jeff Miller, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
    October 5, 2017
    - Tianxi Cai, Professor of Biostatistics
    - Sebastien Haneuse, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    - John Quackenbush, Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    - Marcello Pagano, Professor of Statistical Computing
    September 7, 2017
    - Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics
    - Christoph Lange, Professor of Biostatistics
    - Guocheng Yuan, Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    - Cory Zigler, Associate Professor of Biostatistics