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 …
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Elicieri wins highly cited researcher award for second time
Kevin Elicieri, PhD, BMI affiliate, is one of 11 UW-Madison researchers to win a highly cited researcher award from the Institute for Scientific Information. This is his second appearance on this list. The 2021 award …
Singh research team wins prestigious best paper award at 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision
Professor Vikas Singh, Xingjian Zhen (first author), Zihang Meng, and Rudrasis Chakraborty won the prestigious ECCV award for best paper out of more than 5,000 entries at the 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) …
Tang and Chen Labs collaborate to win
Congratulations to Associate Professors Zhengzheng Tang and Guanhua Chen and graduate students Jifan Gao and Zhoujingpeng Wei for winning Task 1 of the Preterm Birth Prediction – Microbiome DREAM Challenge. The predictive tool they developed …
Singh and Pimentel-Alarcon win American Family Funding Initiative awards
Professor Vikas Singh and Assistant Professor Daniel Pimentel-Alarcon are two of the nine recipients of funding awarded through the fourth American Family Funding Initiative of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute. This competitive initiative …
Kendziorski and Roy, Kellett and Romnes award winners, in “Inside UW”
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 …
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 …
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 …
Newton Co-PI on NSF Transdisciplinary Research in Data Science (TRIPODS) award
BMI Chair Michael Newton is co-PI on an NSF TRIPODS award to WID titled: TRIPODS: Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS). Stephen Wright (Computer Sciences) is PI, with Robert Nowak (ECE, ISyE, CS, and …