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Lu Mao – awarded competitive renewal of NIH grant
Congratulations to BMI Associate Professor Lu Mao, who has been awarded a 5-year competitive renewal of his NIH grant “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials.” The project aims to develop …
Roy – Computational Approach to Uncovering Gene Networks of Cell Fate
Nature Communications published a paper by BMI Professor and WID Investigator Sushmita Roy and graduate student Shilu Zhang that describes a computational tool called scMTNI, which will allow researchers to construct a more precise view …
BMI Affiliate Majid Afshar Inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association
BMI affiliate faculty member and faculty leader for the SMPH Learning Health Systems Initiatives, Majid Afshar, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in May. AMIA launched the Applied Informatics …
Machine learning algorithm to improve estimation and integration of single-cell data
Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, with research group members Noah Cohen Kalafut and Xiang Huang, published a paper titled “Joint variational autoencoders for multimodal imputation and embedding” in Nature Machine Intelligence on May 29. The algorithm, …
Announcing our 2023 Graduates
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics is proud to recognize our outstanding 2023 graduates. The are graduation from our MS and PhD programs in Biomedical Data Science, as well as programs in Computer Sciences …
2023 Faculty Promotions
We are delighted to report the promotions of five BMI faculty members, with effective dates this summer. The promotions recognize their outstanding scholarly accomplishments and contributions to the department, university, and scholarly community. Promotions to …
Machine Learning for Medical Imaging (ML4MI) retreat on March 15 at the Memorial Union
This event will feature researchers from various Schools/Colleges within UW. The morning session (830am-1pm approx, including lunch) will include talks from various faculty on campus. The afternoon session will include strategic discussion about research …
Two BMI students win ASA SGG Student Paper Awards!
BMI graduate students, Kwangmoon Park (3rd year with Sunduz Keles) and Soham Ghosh (2nd year with Guanhua Chen) won two of the five 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper …
Newton and Zheng on team that wins WARF Innovation Award
Congratulations to Michael Newton and Zihao Zheng, one of his graduate students, for their contributions to a team that won a 2022 WARF Innovation Award! Sara McCoy and Miriam Shelef, both in the Department of …