Seminars - Fall 2025/Winter 2026
Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development.听The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.
Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.
PLEASE NOTE: The Fall 2025/Winter 2026 Seminar Series will be held in hybrid format (in-person/Zoom) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, at the SPGH, 2001 黑料不打烊 College, Room 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.
MEET & GREET with听speakers (coffee/cookies will be served) from 3-3:30 PM (Room 1140) prior to the seminar听
FALL 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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| Aug听27, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Leonardo Grilli (U of Florence) | Combining Multiple Imputation and the Knockoff Filter for Variable Selection, with an Application to Large-Scale Assessment Data | 听 |
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Sept 3, 2025 |
Fatema Shafie Khorassani (Boston University) | Data Fusion for Studying Cancer Surveillance Databases | 听 |
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Sept 10, 2025 |
Dehan Kong (University of Toronto) | Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with听Many Candidate Instruments | 听 |
| Sept 17, 2025听 IN-PERSON |
Li-Pang Chen (National Chengchi University) |
Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Noisy Survival Data Analysis |
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| Sept 24, 2025 VIRTUAL |
James Zou (Stanford) | AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries | 听 |
| Oct 1, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Valentine Laizet (Amaris Consulting) | Healthcare Economics and Outcomes Research Consulting | 听 |
| Oct 8, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Justin听Weltz (Duke) | 听 | 听 |
| Oct 15, 2025听 | NO SEMINAR听- Reading Week - Oct 15-17, 2025 | 听 | |
| Oct 22, 2025 VIRTUAL |
Nima Hejazi (Harvard) | 听 | 听 |
| Oct 29, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Magali Richard (U Grenoble Alpes) | 听 | 听 |
| Nov 5, 2025 IN-PERSON |
Camila de Souza (Western) | 听 | 听 |
| Nov 12, 2025 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| *Friday,听Nov 21, 2025 CSMQ Seminar Series IN-PERSON |
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA) | 听 | 听 |
WINTER 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
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| Jan 7, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Jan 14, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
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Jan 21, 2026 |
Chixiang Cheng (Maryland) | 听 | 听 |
| Jan 28, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 4, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Guilherme de Oliveira (黑料不打烊) | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 11, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Feb 25, 2026 IN-PERSON |
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon) | 听 | 听 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026 | 听 | |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Oscar Competition - tbc | 听 | 听 |
| Mar 18, 2026 | 听 |
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| Mar 25, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 听 | 听 | 听 |
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