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 …
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
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 …
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 …
KyungMann Kim awarded $7.1M U24 for the HIV/Cervical Cancer Prevention “CASCADE” Clinical Trials Network
Congratulations to Dr. Kim and his team for their success being awarded a $7.1M U24 cooperative agreement from the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Kim will serve as PI of the Data Coordinating Center for the …
Special Event: Kjell Doksum – Virtual Celebration of Life – November 12, 2022
Vijay Nair, former student of the late Kjell Doksum, is organizing a virtual celebration of life on November 12, 2022 at 7 pm Central via Zoom. If you are able to join the zoom call, …
Tenure track faculty position in social genomics – cluster hire
The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in statistical genetics. This position is one of three hiring opportunities on social genomics included in a UW interdisciplinary cluster hiring …
Assistant or Associate Professor (CHS) of Biostatistics
The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, in collaboration with the Department of Surgery, in the School of Medicine & Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek candidates for the position of assistant or …
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 …