Congratulations to Jingqi Duan for winning the 2025 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper award. Jingqi is mentored by Professor Sunduz Keles and Professor Hyunseung Kang. The winning paper is titled “Causal mediation analysis of perturbations with …
Year: 2024
Qiongshi Lu and team propose a statistical method to guarantee the reliability of AI-assisted GWAS
Associate Professor Qiongshi Lu and colleagues were highlighted in a Nature Genetics article for their work on the perils of relying on AI to predict complex traits and disease risks with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, …
Guanhua Chen wins PCORI award
PCORI awarded BMI Associate Professor Guanhua Chen a 3-year, $1.05M contract for a study titled “Learning Interpretable and Fair Personalized Treatment Rules.” Dr. Chen will collaborate with Professor Maureen Smith (co-I) and Dr Jared Huling …
Daifeng Wang co-I on $9M NIH award to study Down Syndrome
Associate Professor Daifeng Wang is co-investigator on a newly awarded $9M grant to study Down Syndrome. Sigan Hartley (PI) and the team will conduct an in-depth study of factors driving the risk and severity of …
Miao and Lu – First and Last Author Paper in Nature Genetics
Congratulations to Jiancheng Miao (1st author) and Qiongshi Lu (last author) for a paper published online September 30 in Nature Genetics. The paper, titled “Valid inference for machine learning-assisted genome-wide association studies” offers a robust …
Seeking Clinical Biostatistics Faculty with Expertise in Cancer
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center seek a tenure-track/tenured or clinical health sciences faculty member with expertise in clinical biostatistics in cancer beginning July 1, 2025. …
Irene Ong promoted to Associate Professor
Irene Ong Promoted to Associate Professor Irene Ong, jointly appointed in Ob/Gyn and BMI, was promoted to associate professor effective July 1, 2024. Congratulations to Irene for a well-deserved promotion! Ob/Gyn announcement: https://www.obgyn.wisc.edu/ob-gyn-department-news/ong-promoted-to-associate-professor-with-tenure CHGPM announcement: …
Welcome assistant professor Tianyuan “T” Lu
Assistant professor Tianyuan “T” Lu joined the department on August 1, 2024. He is jointly appointed in Population Health Sciences, which is his tenure home. T comes to the department from the University of Toronto …
Welcome to new Biomedical Data Science program students
Welcome to the new Biomedical Data Science Students We are pleased to welcome the newest cohort of students to our Biomedical Data Science program. This years new students are: Fromandi, Mike (MSTP) Gendreau, Kaya Haddad, …
Velten Co-PI on Research Forward Award
Congratulations to associate professor Andreas Velten (co-PI) on receiving a Research Forward award titled “Quanta sensing for next generation quantum computing,” led by professor Mohit Gupta, associate professor of computer sciences and PI on the …