Chen and Longhurst win 2023 Joint ICSA/NIC-ASA student poster competition

Graduate students Grace Yi Chen and Colin Longhurst won the 1st and 3rd prizes, respectively, in the student poster competition at the 2023 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Midwest Chapter and the Northeastern Illinois Chapter …

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 …