On June 9, department chair Yu Shyr (third from left) delivered "Future of Investigational Medicine and Smart Data—What We Learned from ChatGPT" as a keynote during the 2023 Health+ Conference hosted by Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade. (Photo via Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs.)
From June 17 through June 23, Shyr is serving as invited faculty in the 2023 EORTC-ESMO-AACR Workshop on Methods in Clinical Cancer Research (MCCR) in the Netherlands. Shyr has been involved with MCCR workshops since 2004 and will be speaking on "Novel Study Design and Analysis for Integrating Multi-omics Technologies for Early Detection of Cancer" at the 2023 ESMO Asia Congress this December in Singapore.
Assistant professors Jinyuan Liu and Panpan Zhang were invited speakers at the 2023 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, which was in Ann Arbor last week. Zhang organized and chaired "Statistical and Machine Learning Methods with Applications to Neurodegenerative Diseases" on June 13, and presented "A Covariate-Dependent Multi-Layer Network Model for Classification Analysis in Neuroimaging" on June 14. Liu presented "Edge: Ensembled Distance-Based Generalized Semiparametric Estimation for Between-Subject Attributes in Longitudinal Microbiome Data" on June 13.
This week both Liu and Zhang are at WNAR in Alaska as invited session organizers and speakers. See the conference website for more about their presentations, and our Upcoming Presentations page for more meetings and workshops where they and other colleagues will be representing Vanderbilt Biostatistics.