Biostatistics 10th Anniversary Conference and Celebration 10 Years

Day 1 – Monday, November 11, 2024

Check-in begins at 11:00 a.m.

11:30am-12:30pm-Luncheon

12:45pm-1:45pm – Session 1: Precision Health

• Organizer: Michael Kosorok, PhD
• Christina Zhou, MS, PhD Candidate
• Individualized Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Competing Risks
• Dong Neuck (East) Lee, PhD
• Reinforcement Learning for High Dimensional Rewards

1:45pm-2:00pm – Break

2:00pm-3:00pm – Session 2: Bayesian Statistics

• Organizer: Joe Ibrahim, PhD
• Xinxin Chen, PhD Candidate
• A Framework for Ensembling Informative Priors via Model Averaging
• Matt Psioda, PhD
• Bayesian Dynamic Borrowing for Nonparametric Survival Analysis

3:00pm-4:00pm – Session 3: Machine Learning

• Organizer: Didong Li, PhD
• Qiang Sun, PhD
• Making AI Trustworthy: A Statistical Perspective
• Kevin Wang, PhD Candidate
• Deep Generative Models: Complexity, Dimensionality, and Approximation

4:00pm-4:15pm – Break

4:15pm-5:00pm – Session 4: CSCC

• Organizers/Speakers: Kevin Anstrom, PhD, MS & Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, DrPH
• Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, DrPH
• Fifteen Years of Research in Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease of US Hispanic/Latino Persons: HCHS/SOL
• Lisa Strader, DrPH and Micah McCumber, PhD
• Recent CSCC Contributions to Data Ecosystems
• Kevin J. Anstrom, PhD
• A Sampling of Recent Clinical Trials Designed at the CSCC

5:00pm-6:00pm – Networking Reception

6:00pm-8:30pm – Dinner

• Keynote Speaker: Sir Dennis Gillings, CBE

Day 2 – Tuesday, November 12, 2024

8:00am-9:00am – Breakfast

9:00am-10:00am – Session 5: Statistics in Neuroscience

• Co-Organizers: Tanya Garcia, PhD & Hongtu Zhu, PhD
• Brian Richardson, PhD Candidate
• Robust and Efficient Estimation in the Presence of a Randomly Censored Covariate
• Bingxin Zhao, PhD
• Multi-organ Imaging Genomics: New Resources and Findings

10:00am-10:15am – Break

10:15am-11:45am – Session 6: Careers in Clinical Trials

• Co-Organizers: Anastasia Ivanova, PhD & Richard Zink, PhD
• Panelists:
• Jennifer Clark, PhD
• Rakhi Kilaru, MS
• Sharon Murray, PhD
• Shane Rosanbalm, MS
• Chalmer Thomlinson, PhD

11:45am-12:00pm – Break

12:00pm-1:00pm – Luncheon

• Keynote Speaker: Ji-Hyun Lee, DrPH

1:00pm-1:15pm – Break

1:15pm – 2:35pm – Session 7: Genomics

• Co-Organizers: Fei Zou, PhD & Xihao Li, PhD
• Jiawen Chen, PhD Candidate
• Advancement, Opportunities and Challenges in Spatial Omics
• Bryce Rowland, PhD
• GAUDI and Future Precision Medicine in the BEST Clinical Trial
• Arjun Bhattacharya, PhD
• Inferring Gene Isoform Mechanisms Underlying Genetic Associations with Cancer Risk

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Concertgebouw, 1071 LN, Amsterdam, Netherlands