In addition to events hosted at 2525 West End (such as our weekly Wednesday seminars) and elsewhere at Vanderbilt, our department members are often invited to present lectures, workshops, and courses online and around the world. Here is a sample of what's on the calendar:
April 4–May 2, 2024 - Winn Career Development Award Scholar Forums - online
- Yu Shyr, invited faculty
May 13, 2024 - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs Division - online
- Brad Malin, "AI for Scientific Discovery - Proceedings Release" - moderator
May 29, 2024 - Statistical Horizons Distinguished Speaker Series - online
- Frank Harrell, "Ordinal Regression" - invited faculty
June 10–11, 2024 - Risks and Opportunities of AI in Pharmaceutical Medicine - Boston
- Cindy Chen, "Empowering Insights in the All of Us Research Program: A Statistical Perspective on the Transformational Role of AI and ML" - invited speaker
June 13–21, 2024 - Methods in Clinical Cancer Research - Sint Michielgestel, Netherlands
- Yu Shyr, invited faculty
June 16–19, 2024 - ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium - Nashville
- Conference co-chaired by Dandan Liu and Cindy Chen; committee chairs include Shawn Garbett, Jinyuan Liu, Siyuan Ma, Ran Tao, Janey Wang, Yaomin Xu, Fei Ye, and Panpan Zhang. Volunteers include PhD candidate Siwei Zhang.
- Course instructors include Jinyuan Liu, Bryan Shepherd, and Simon Vandekar.
- The special panel discussion "Empowering paths: Mentorship and career development for women" will be organized and moderated by Cindy Chen.
- Invited sessions include the following:
- "Novel statistical methods for imaging data analysis and beyond" - organized and chaired by Panpan Zhang
- "Biostatistics in government and pharmaceutical industry" - organized and chaired by Panpan Zhang
- "Opportunities and challenges in omics data analysis and integration" - organized and chaired by Shilin Zhao; Qi Liu, discussant
- Zhao will present "Optimizing spatial transcriptomic analysis through customizable deep histology and location informed integration" during this session.
- "Reliable and rigorous inference for brain structure and networks" - organized by Kaidi Kang; chaired by Simon Vandekar
- Kang will present "Study design features that improve the effect sizes in brain-behavior associations" during this session.
- "Advanced statistical methods to inform clinical decision making" - organized by Dandan Liu; chaired by Tianyi Sun
- Liu will present "Statistical challenges of implementing an EHR-based prediction model in real time" during this session.
- "Machine learning methods for complex data analysis and modeling" - chaired by Yaomin Xu
- Xu will present "Mining complex epigenetic patterns from imperfect real-world data: A case study on socioeconomic hardship using EHR-linked biobank data" during this session.
- "Statistical challenges of modeling patient-reported outcome measures in real-world evidence studies" - chaired by Yaomin Xu
- "Methods and applications of network data science: A showcase of the Journal of Data Science" - chaired by Panpan Zhang
- "CompDA for novel health-microbiome associations and controlling false discoveries," a talk by Siyuan Ma, in the session titled "Statistical innovations for understanding human microbiome and their interactions with other omics"
- "An anchoring-event-based sigmoidal mixed model with application to Alzheimer's disease progression," a talk by Panpan Zhang, in the session titled "New models and inferential methods for complicated biomedical data"
- Cindy Chen will serve as discussant for the session titled "Innovative and applied methods in design and analysis of oncology trials on the time-to-event endpoints"
- Colleagues affiliated with the Departments of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology have also committed to participating in the symposium.
August 3–8, 2024 - Joint Statistical Meetings - Portland, Oregon
- Fei Ye represents the ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology on the Program Committee.
- A list of presenters from our department will be posted later this year. See the 2023 roundup to view last year's cohort.
November 18–22, 2024 - Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials: Design and Implementation of Clinical Trials Workshop - Richmond, Virginia
- Yu Shyr, co-director; Mario Davidson, invited faculty
Details subject to change.