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Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics seminar Friday, September 16th
Annie Qu, PhD Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics University of California, Irvine “Query-augmented Active Metric Learning” Friday September 16, 2022 12:00-1:00 pm at the Biotech Center Auditorium, 425 Henry Mall *or* via Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95990198725 …
ISCB Conference
BMI is a co-sponsor of the 30th ISMB conference, hosted in Madison this year
Singh and Pimentel-Alarcon win American Family Funding Initiative awards
Professor Vikas Singh and Assistant Professor Daniel Pimentel-Alarcon are two of the nine recipients of funding awarded through the fourth American Family Funding Initiative of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute. This competitive initiative …
Kendziorski and Roy, Kellett and Romnes award winners, in “Inside UW”
Kellett Fellowship award winner Christina Kendziorski and H.I. Romnes award winner Sushmita Roy were included in a UW news release and the May 19, 2022 Inside UW newsletter. BMI received 2 of the 32 awards …
Roy awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Associate Professor Sushmita Roy was awarded the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service to the university and the broader research community. This prestigious award is designed …
Kendziorski awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award
Professor Christina Kendziorski received the Kellett Mid-Career Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. This award is made to mid-career faculty to support them at a critical stage of …
Bayes Meets Markov – Oophorectomy and Age at Hysterectomy
BMI’s biostatistical consulting team supported the initial work that led to a May 2022 publication in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology titled “A Revised Markov Model Evaluating Oophorectomy at the Time of Hysterectomy for Benign …
Tom Cook Elected to the 2022 Class of Fellows by the Society for Clinical Trials
Congratulations to Tom Cook, Professor CHS, for his election as member of the 2022 Class of Fellows by the Society of Clinical Trials. He, and classmate Alexia Iasonos of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will …
Gao and Chen win COVID-19 Data Challenge, Task 1
Congratulations to graduate student Jifan Gao and Assistant Professor Guanhua Chen for their winning entry to Task 1 of the Pediatric COVID-19 Data challenge! Their submission, titled “A Model for Predicting Need for Hospitalization,” earned …