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 …
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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 …
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 …
BMI seeking faculty
BMI is hiring multiple faculty in a range of areas, from clinical biostatistics, to machine learning, to computational biology/data science in metabolism. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and BMI are also jointly hiring for a machine …
Asst Prof Lu Mao receives 3-year NIH award to develop new statistical methods for use in clinical trials
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lu Mao on the award of a $1.1M 3-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award titled “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials. In clinical …
Asst Prof Daifeng Wang awarded 5-year NIH grant to study Alzheimer’s Disease
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, who has been awarded a $1.68M, 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Understanding the molecular mechanisms that contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychiatric …
Congratulations to Chaoqun Mei
Congratulations to Chaoqun Mei who has been accepted as a student scholar for the 2019 Deming Conference!
BMI Affiliate Prof. Guilherme Rosa advances big-data methods for precision livestock farming.
Grow magazine, published by the UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences featured BMI affiliate professor Guilherme Rosa’s research on using big data methods for precision livestock farming. Professor Rosa developed tools that combine big …