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 …
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Yin Li featured on NBC15 News
Assistant Professor Yin Li’s work on the “Fingertrak” device is featured on the NBC15 News website. Fingertrak is a new device designed to help identify and diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s at early stages …
Mao wins three-year NSF grant
Assistant Professor Lu Mao was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant titled “Randomized Trials with Non-Compliance: Extending the Angrist-Imbens-Ruben Framework. Congratulations to Lu! Abstract: Randomized controlled trial (RCT) refers to a design commonly employed …
Announcing our 2020 Graduates
The faculty and staff of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics are proud to announce this year’s 27 graduates. The graduates represent a mix of students. Eight students graduated from our MS in Biomedical …
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 …
Thevaa Chandereng wins the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Student Paper Competition
We are delighted to announce that Thevaa Chandereng won the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Paper Competition for his manuscript titled “Robust Blocked Response-Adaptive Randomization Designs.” Thevaa’s primary advisor is Rick Chappell and he is co-advised by …
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 …
Professor Sunduz Keles profiled in Nature Methods
BMI Professor Sunduz Keles was profiled in “The Author File” section of Nature Methods in December 2019. The profile is a nice combination of background on Professor Keles and her current research (with graduate student …
Asst Prof Lu Mao receives 3-year NIH award to develop new statistical methods for use in clinical trials
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lu Mao on the award of a $1.1M 3-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award titled “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials. In clinical …
Asst Prof Daifeng Wang awarded 5-year NIH grant to study Alzheimer’s Disease
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, who has been awarded a $1.68M, 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Understanding the molecular mechanisms that contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychiatric …