We are delighted to announce that Thevaa Chandereng won the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Paper Competition for his manuscript titled “Robust Blocked Response-Adaptive Randomization Designs.” Thevaa’s primary advisor is Rick Chappell and he is co-advised by …
Month: January 2020
Call for Abstracts – Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources
The Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources is being held from April 26-28 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations are due by Friday, …
Jacob Maronge wins JSM Travel Award
Congratulations to Jake Maronge for winning the JSM Travel Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. Jack won this award for a paper titled “Generalized case-control sampling under generalized linear models,” one …
BMI Assistant Professor Velten and Professor Yu named Vilas Associates
Two BMI faculty were named Vilas Associates in the most recent Vilas Associates Competition. Andreas Velten and Menggang Yu were selected for this honor by the Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice …
Dr. Sündüz Keleş and her graduate student, Ye Zheng, in Nature
Dr. Sündüz Keleş and her graduate student, Ye Zheng, have developed FreeHi-C (fragment interactions empirical estimation for fast simulation of Hi-C data), a way to generate simulated Hi-C data which is published in Nature – …
Professor Sunduz Keles profiled in Nature Methods
BMI Professor Sunduz Keles was profiled in “The Author File” section of Nature Methods in December 2019. The profile is a nice combination of background on Professor Keles and her current research (with graduate student …