Spring 2024 Seminars

Spring 2024 seminars

Date

Title

Presenter

Location

January 10

Fighting noise with noise: Causal inference with many candidate instruments 

Dehan Kong

Virtual

January 12Dynamic risk assessment by landmark modeling of the restricted mean survival timeYuan Zhang

Virtual

January 17Knowledge-guided machine learning for time-to-event outcomes and longitudinal predictors, with application to the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults studyColin O. Wu

Virtual

January 18
2:30 p.m.
Cox models with auxiliary outcomes, left truncation, and complex censoringYidan Shi

Virtual

January 24Time-aware analyses for critical care electronic health recordsAnru Zhang

Hybrid (joint seminar)

January 31Can AI deliver on its promise for improving public health? Challenges in the clinical trial settingManisha Desai

Virtual

February 7The paradoxes, perplexities, and power of factor analysisTyler VanderWeele

Virtual

February 9Between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlationsShengxin Tu

Hybrid

February 14PAM-HC: A Bayesian nonparametric construction of hybrid control for randomized clinical trials using external dataYuan Ji

Virtual

February 16Statistical innovations using real world data for health system performance assessmentJiayi "Jessie" Tong

Virtual

February 21Regression frameworks for brain network distance metricsSean L. Simpson

Virtual

February 28Analyzing functional brain network changes from childhood to old age: A study using HCP-D, HCP-YA, and HCP-A datasetsTingting Zhang

Virtual

March 6
12:30 p.m.
LLMs and active learning for mRNA vaccine optimizationZiv Bar-Joseph

Virtual

March 20Meta-learners to analyze treatment heterogeneity in survival data: Application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruptionYing Ding

Virtual

March 27Pooling data from individual clinical trials in the COVID-19 eraAndrea Troxel

Virtual

April 3Faculty Lightning TalksDepartment faculty

Virtual

April 5
1:00 p.m.
The survival-incorporated median: A summary measure for clinical outcomes in the presence of deathQingyan Xiang

Hybrid

April 10Addressing known and unknown batch effects in microbiome sequencing studiesNi Zhao

Virtual

April 17Learning optimal dynamic treatment regimes under risk constraintsDonglin Zeng

Virtual

April 24A general framework for brain network extraction from fMRI data with repeated measurementsJoshua Lukemire

Virtual

May 1Innovative applications of hidden Markov models in cancer epidemiology and geneticsPaul Albert

Virtual

June 12Two applications from one theoretical propertyNorman Matloff

Hybrid