Upcoming Career Development Events

The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) invites our students and postdocs to visit with a recent Harvard astrophysicist PhD currently in the malaria group at the Institute for Disease Modeling … Continue reading “Upcoming Career Development Events”

32nd Annual New England Statistics Symposium

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are excited to co-host the 32nd annual New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) … Continue reading “32nd Annual New England Statistics Symposium”

HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects

Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund Deadline: March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Eligible Applicants: Individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school … Continue reading “HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects”

2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium

Register now for the 2018 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Frontier Science and Research Technology Foundation’s Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. This year’s topic is: Data Science in Biomedical Research Featuring the … Continue reading “2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium”

Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Short Course

Machine Learning and Bayesian Approaches for Data Science in Medicine January 18 | 11:00am-5:30pm Kresge G1 | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Sherri Rose, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Short Course”

Harvard Catalyst Events: Save the Date!

Machine Learning and Bayesian Approaches for Data Science in Medicine  Sherri Rose, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Laura Hatfield, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School 1 DAY SHORT COURSE: … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Events: Save the Date!”

HDSI/Elsevier Community Networking Event

November 6th 4:00-5:30 PM The Cabot Science Library, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce a networking reception with data scientists from Elsevier on November 6, 2017 … Continue reading “HDSI/Elsevier Community Networking Event”

The Evolution of Data Science: Success, Challenges and Opportunities for Statistics and Biostatistics

What are some of the challenges for statistics and biostatistics in the era of Data Science?  A recent NSF-Sponsored Workshop for Chairs of Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics took the … Continue reading “The Evolution of Data Science: Success, Challenges and Opportunities for Statistics and Biostatistics”