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 …
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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 …
Fan Chen wins ASA Distinguished Student Paper
Congratulations to Fan Chen for winning the 2020 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper award for his paper: “SURF: Integrative analysis of a compendium of RNA-seq and CLIP-seq datasets …
Jacob Maronge wins JSM Travel Award
Congratulations to Jake Maronge for winning the JSM Travel Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. Jack won this award for a paper titled “Generalized case-control sampling under generalized linear models,” one …