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 …
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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 …
Open Science Grid (OSG) User School 2022 – July 25-29, 2022
Applications are open for this course using high-throughput computing (HTC) systems, including the HTCondor cluster here on campus. The campus HTCondor cluster feeds into the Open Science Grid. The training is applicable to the BMI …
Daifeng Wang – Manifold Learning Paper in Nature Computational Science
Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, whose research focuses on manifold learning, had a paper titled “A deep manifold-regularized learning model for improving phenotype prediction from multi-modal data” published in the prestigious journal, Nature Computational Science. The …
Please join us for this week’s Biostatistics & Medical Informatics seminar on Friday February 18th at noon
Time: Friday, February 18 2022 at 12:00-1:00pm Zoom Link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91614190924 Please note that this seminar is fully virtual. Title: Decorrelated Local Linear Estimator: Inference for Non-linear Effects in High-dimensional Additive Models Presenter: Dr. Zijian …
Sir David Cox, 1924-2022
Last week we lost one of the giants of the statistics world. Sir David Cox, whose unmatched career affected the path of thousands — including many of us in BMI — passed away on 18 …
BMI Affiliate Jignesh Patel named AAAS fellow
BMI affiliate Jignesh Patel (Professor of Computer Sciences) is one of 13 UW-Madison faculty elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read the UW news release for more information. Congratulations to …
BDS student Jiacheng Miao wins ASA student paper competition
BDS PhD student Jiacheng Miao, advised by Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu, won this year’s ASA Section on Statistical Genomics and Genetics Student Paper award. The paper is titled “A quantile integral linear model to quantify …
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics seminar on Friday December 10th
Please join us for this week’s Biostatistics & Medical Informatics seminar on Friday! Time & Place: Friday, December 10 2021 at 12:00-1:30pm Location: Biotech Center Auditorium The seminar can also be viewed virtually through Zoom. …
BMI Affiliate Matt Churpek and Colleagues Publish Findings on Factors that May Increase COVID Death Rate in ICU Patients
BMI affiliate Dr. Matt Churpek and colleagues published an analysis of 4,019 severely ill COVID-19 patient outcomes at 70 hospitals. The study incorporates a mix of hospital system and patient characteristics that may increase death …