Assistant Professor Lu Mao was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant titled “Randomized Trials with Non-Compliance: Extending the Angrist-Imbens-Ruben Framework. Congratulations to Lu! Abstract: Randomized controlled trial (RCT) refers to a design commonly employed …
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Announcing our 2020 Graduates
The faculty and staff of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics are proud to announce this year’s 27 graduates. The graduates represent a mix of students. Eight students graduated from our MS in Biomedical …
Thevaa Chandereng wins Thomas Chalmers award!
Thevaa Chandereng, whose advisor is Rick Chappell, added to his long list of honors by winning one of three Thomas Chalmers awards from the Society for Clinical Trials. He won the award for his work …
Covid-19 updates
COVID-19 updates: in line with UW Madison guidance, BMI will deliver instruction online after spring break, support telecommuting for faculty, staff, and students, and support safe research collaborations.
Fan Chen wins ASA Distinguished Student Paper
Congratulations to Fan Chen for winning the 2020 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper award for his paper: “SURF: Integrative analysis of a compendium of RNA-seq and CLIP-seq datasets …
Thevaa Chandereng wins the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Student Paper Competition
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 …
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 – …