It was our distinct honor to welcome Dr. DJ Patil, The White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, to the School on Friday for an informal … Continue reading “JP Onnela Hosts White House Chief Data Scientist, DJ Patil”
Co-organized by the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, the Biostatistics – Biomedical Informatics Big Data Seminar (B3D) is a series of research talks … Continue reading “New Biostatistics-Biomedical Informatics Big Data Seminar (B3D)”
On July 20-22 we had an enormously successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, culmination, reunions, evaluation and celebration related to our activities to increase the diversity of our students … Continue reading “Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics”
We hope everyone had a great long weekend. In honor of Memorial Day yesterday, read our student story on Army officer, Kevin Cummiskey. We’re so thankful for his service! Last Thursday was … Continue reading “Commencement May 31, 2016”
Congratulations to JP Onnela for being selected by the Dean’s Challenge Program selection committee to receive the 2016 McLennan Family Fund Challenge Grant! Each year, the Dean identifies a set … Continue reading “JP Onnela Receives Challenge Grant”
Maria Simoneau, Project Manager Maria is joining the Biostatistics team after five years within the HSPH Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, where she provided program management for research projects studying … Continue reading “Two New Onnela Lab Members – Welcome!”
Assistant Professor JP Onnela, with colleagues Jeanette Lorme, Matthew Kiang, and John Torous published a paper last week on “New Tools for New Research in Psychiatry: A Scalable and Customizable Platform to … Continue reading “JP Onnela – Paper on New Research Platform”
April 28 Building 2, Room 426 | 2:00pm Patrick Staples Committee Chair: JP Onnela Networks and Statistical Approaches in Biological Contexts May 2 Kresge 202A | 10:00am Godwin Yung Committee … Continue reading “Dissertation Defense Schedule”
Congratulations to our faculty who received high course evaluation ratings (4.3 or higher) for their teaching during the 2015 Fall Semester! Paul Catalano BIO201, Introduction to Statistical Methods Marcia Testa … Continue reading “Faculty News”
The department has developed several new educational initiatives this past year. As Xihong mentioned, the School has approved a new Masters program in Health Data Science. This program affords several … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Associate Chair Brent Coull”
