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 …
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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 …
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 …