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 …
Year: 2024
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 …
Velten wins SIGGRAPH 2024 Test of Time Award
Associate Professor Andreas Velten received one of four “Test of Time” awards at the 2024 SIGGRAPH conference for his paper titled “Femto-Photography: Capturing and Visualizing the Propagation of Light,” which was published in 2013. The …
Wei wins 2024 NESS student paper award
Congratulations to Zhoujingpeng Wei, BDS PhD student advised by Zhengzheng Tang, for being one of ten winners of the 2024 NESS student paper awards. The winning paper is titled, “Melody: Meta-analysis of Microbiome Association Studies …
Kendziorski named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Congratulations to Professor Christina Kendziorski for being named Fellow of the 2024 class of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Designation as an IMS Fellow is a significant honor, and has been for nearly 90 …
ICSA Student paper presentation
Please join me in congratulating Jiacheng Miao who recently won the ICSA Student Paper Award and will present the paper Valid inference for machine learning-assisted GWAS at the ICSA applied statistics symposium in Nashville this …