Congratulations to Daifeng for receiving an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, a major campus honor awarded in recognition of Daifeng’s outstanding academic accomplishments. This award includes a $60,000 flexible research fund to support his research efforts. …
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Kwangmoon Park wins 2025 ICSA Student Travel Award
Congratulations to Kwangmoon Park (advised by Sunduz Keles) on winning a 2025 International Chinese Statistical Association Student Travel Award for his paper titled “Systematic Background Selection for Enhanced Contrastive Dimension Reduction.” Kwangmoon will present the …
Andreas Velten Startup Named First Round Draft Pick by TitletownTech
Congratulations to Andreas Velten and CEO Sebastian Bauer (former BMI postdoc with Andreas) for the recognition of Ubicept’s, a startup focused on computer vision, contributions by TitletownTech. TitletownTech is a collaboration between the Green Bay …
Special Seminar with Bryan Plummer
Reproducibility Training Initiatives Seminar – Tuesday, Feb 18
The Stanford CTSA Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR) will host a discussion on Reproducibility Training Initiatives on Tuesday, Feb 18, at 11 am central time. Reproducibility Rounds Flyer) Registration Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/xJPujcCSRr2mOULoWBd5yg#/registration.
Andreas Velten named to 2025 class of Optica Fellows.
Congratulations to Andreas Velten for being selected as one of 121 fellows of the Optica 2025 Fellows Class. The 2025 Optica Fellows Class represents 27 different countries, who will be honored at Optica conferences and …
Qilin Hong wins ASA 2025 Early Career Award
Congratulations to graduate student Qilin Hong, mentored by Associate Professor Zhengzheng Tang, for winning the 2025 Early Career Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association. Qilin received the award …
Jingqi Duan wins the 2025 ENAR Distinguised Student Paper award.
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 …
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 …