Siyuan Ma & Boyu Ren Win Boston Datathon!

We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Siyuan Ma and Postdoc Boyu Ren were part of the winning team at the Boston Datathon! Along with Harvard Statistics PhD student Ryan Lee, and Eric Alt, … Continue reading “Siyuan Ma & Boyu Ren Win Boston Datathon!”

Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense

Friday, July 14th 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM FXB FXB-G10 Yered Pita-Juarez will present his dissertation on “Three Aspects of Gene Expression: Pathway Coexpression, Cross-Species Analysis of RNA-seq Data, and … Continue reading “Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense”

Amstat News Profiles Data Science Program

Rafael Irizarry recently answered questions for the June edition of Amstat News profiling universities’ new master’s programs in data science and analytics. In describing the motivation for the Department’s new SM in Health Data Science, … Continue reading “Amstat News Profiles Data Science Program”

New Student & Postdoc Awards

Isabel Fulcher and Ben Wong have both been selected to receive one of the American Statistical Society’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Awards. The awards are intended to defray travel costs … Continue reading “New Student & Postdoc Awards”

Summer Project Presentations

The Biostatistics Summer Projects Presentations will be held on Tuesday, August 23, from 2-5pm in Kresge 502, followed by a reception.  Please attend if possible and help encourage our students! … Continue reading “Summer Project Presentations”

Spring 1 & 2 Course Evaluations

As part of its mandate to monitor quality teaching at the School, the Committee on Educational Policy recently reviewed student course evaluations and found that the following courses in the … Continue reading “Spring 1 & 2 Course Evaluations”

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute News

Ayshwarya Subramanian won a Broadnext10 round 3 Catalytic Steps award, an innovative round of funding instituted by the Broad Institute for independent, catalytic ideas by trainees, that will spur important science … Continue reading “Dana-Farber Cancer Institute News”

Highly Cited Researchers 2015

Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated … Continue reading “Highly Cited Researchers 2015”