Webinar Series

2025

November 13, 2025

Venturing beyond genomics: integrating chromatin, transcript, and protein layers in single cells Avi Srivastava, PhD, The Wistar Institute.

September 11, 2025

Unbiased machine learning regression models for biological age Shuo Chen, PhD, University of Maryland. (Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will be rescheduled for January 2026)

June 26, 2025

Modeling host-microbial interactions to understand disease immune responses Noam Auslander, PhD, The Wistar Institute. 

May 15, 2025

An Overview of Bayesian image analysis in transformed spaces John Kornak, PhD, University of California, San Francisco. 

April 24, 2025

Design and analysis of the HEALthy brain child development (HBCD) study Wesley Thompson, PhD, Laureate Institute for Brain Research. 

February 13, 2025

Advancing programmable human digital twins for substance use disorder drug discovery Lei Xie, PhD, Hunter College, The City University of New York. 

January 9, 2025

Precision medicine: subgroup identification in clinical trials Lei Liu, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis. 

2024

October 10, 2024

          Bayesian Imaging genetics modeling for brain structural connectivity Yize Zhao PhD, Yale University.

September 12, 2024

          graphicalMCP: An R package for graphical multiple comparison procedures Dong Xi PhD, Gilead Sciences.

June 6, 2024

          Bayesian modeling with spatial curvature processes Aritra Halder PhD, Drexel University.

May 23, 2024

          A semiparametric method for developing and evaluating risk prediction models using integrated electronic health record data Jill Hasler PhD, Fox Chase  Cancer Center. 

April 11, 2024

          Enhanced mixture gateekeeping procedures with hierarchy modification George Kordzakhia PhD, Astra Zeneca. 

March 21, 2024

          Target trial emulation for evaluating health policy Nicholas Seewald, PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

March 7, 2024

          Estimation and model selection for finite mixtures of Tukey’s g-&-h distributions Tingting Zhan, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University. 

February 1, 2024

Reflections on clinical trial futility decisions and approval strength of evidence from the aducanumab saga Paul Gallo, PhD, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

2023

December 14, 2023

Adaptations and type I error control in platform trials Ekkehard Glimm, PhD, Novartis Pharma, Switzerland.

November 30, 2023

Our most important discovery: the question Scott Evans, PhD, George Washington University. 

November 02, 2023

Innovative design and analysis approaches for master protocols James Wason, PhD, Newcastle University.

September 14, 2023

A gate group sequential design for seamless phase II/III trial with subpopulation selection Jason Liao, PhD, Incyte Corporation.

July 10, 2023

A Bayesian machine learning approach for estimating heterogeneous survivor causal effects: applications to a critical care trial Fan Li, PhD, Yale University.

May 18, 2023

Introducing a lightweight version of R Markdown Yihui Xie, PhD, Posit Software, PBC (formerly known as RStudio).

April 6, 2023

Partially-global Frechet regression and its variable selection Yichao Wu, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago.

March 9, 2023

On the treatment effect estimation of count or recurrent event data Tu Xu, PhD, Vertex Pharmaceutical.

February 16, 2023

Deep neural networks guided ensemble learning for point estimation Tianyu Zhan, PhD, AbbVie Inc.

2022

August 25, 2022

Principal regression for covariance matrix outcomes Yi Zhao, PhD, Indiana University.

2021

December 9, 2021

Major statistical challenges in count data analysis Hui Zhang, PhD, Northwestern University. 

October 21, 2021

Issues in confirmatory clinical trial design for cancer immunotherapies Keaven Anderson, PhD, Merck Methodology Research.

June 17, 2021

Modeling complex survival outcomes with large-scale genetic covariates: methods and applications Ying Ding, PhD, University of Pittsburgh.

May 13, 2021

Machine learning in neuroimaging: applications to clinical neuroscience and neurooncology Christos Davatzikos, PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

2020

October 29, 2020

Joint modeling approaches for longitudinal studies Cheng Yong Tang, PhD, Temple University.

May 21, 2020

Statistical multiplicity in clinical studies Jiangtao Gou, PhD, Villanova University.

April 23, 2020

Quantification of spatial tumor heterogeneity in immunohistochemistry staining images Inna Chervoneva, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University.

January 30, 2020

Trends in the tract-level prevalence of obesity in Philadelphia by race, space, and time Harrison Quick, PhD, Drexel University.

2019

December 5, 2019

Distributed learning from multiple EHRs databases for predicting medical events Qi Long, PhD, University of Pennsylvania.