Department of Biostatistics Seminars

The department hosts seminars by visiting experts on biostatistical topics most weeks during the school year. Seminars are from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Central Time unless otherwise noted.

This page documents our Spring 2025 series. For information about upcoming seminars, visit our graduate program Events page.

Spring 2025 seminars

Date

Title

Presenter

Location

January 8Multi-Source Stable Variable Importance Measure via Adversarial Machine LearningMolei LiuVirtual
January 15Game-Theoretic LLM: Agent Workflow for Negotiation GamesWenyue HuaVirtual
January 22Enhancing Statistical Validity and Power in Hybrid Controlled TrialsShu YangVirtual
January 29The Trust Regulation: Why It's a Game Changer and What Biomedical Researchers Need to KnowJennifer ParkVirtual
February 5Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Signal Detection and Ascertaining Precision of Adverse Event Rates in Clinical TrialsGuoqing DiaoVirtual
February 12Fitting Mixed Models to Data From Complex SurveysThomas LumleyHybrid
February 19Computational Pathology and Integrative Genomics for Precision Medicine ResearchKun HuangHybrid
February 26Topic Models in Microbiome AnalysisKris SankaranVirtual
March 5Learn-As-You-Go (LAGO) to Adapt the Intervention in an Ongoing Trial to Prevent Trial FailureJudith LokVirtual
March 19Time-to-Event Analysis with Unknown Time Origins via Longitudinal Biomarker RegistrationWensheng GuoVirtual
April 2Faculty Lightning Talks (2024 details) (2023 details)  
April 9Leveraging Statistical Models and AI for Genomic Analysis and Biomedical ApplicationsWenpin HouHybrid
April 16Scalable Distributional Regression via Quantile Functional Regression for Data Streams Including Wearable DevicesJeffrey MorrisHybrid
April 23Bayesian Thinking AnalysisFrank HarrellHybrid
April 30Statistical Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics StudiesXiang ZhouVirtual
May 7The Importance of Sample Size for the Development and Evaluation of Clinical Prediction ModelsRichard RileyVirtual