This past week, presentations by our faculty and students included the following:
June 3–6, 2023 - New England Statistics Symposium (NESS), Boston
- Panpan Zhang, "Recent Advances in Neuroimaging Data Integration and Analysis" - invited session organizer (session chaired by Siyuan Ma)
- Kaidi Kang, "Double Anchoring Events Based Sigmoidal Mixed Model for Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Modeling" - student paper presenter (paper co-authored by Panpan Zhang and Dandan Liu)
June 5–6, 2023 - CFAR Symposium on Statistics and Data Science in HIV, Providence
- Bryan Shepherd, "The Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program" - invited speaker
On Tuesday, Kaidi Kang was named a NESS Student Research Award winner. He notes that the work started as as a course project with Dr. Liu. He will also be presenting work later this summer on effect sizes in brain-wide association studies (BWAS) at the Joint Statistical Meetings (#JSM2023) and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping's annual meeting (#OHBM2023), which was conducted in collaboration with professor Jonathan Schildcrout, assistant professor Ran Tao, PhD student Jiangmei Ruby Xiong, MS student Megan Taylor Jones, and assistant professor Simon Vandekar.
