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 …
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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 …
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 …
Founding Chair Dave DeMets Spearheads Society for Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committee Initiative
The Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) launched a Data Monitoring Committee initiative, which was born out of the recognition that there is a dearth of people qualified to serve on Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs). BMI …
BMI 738 and BMI 775 Approved as Permanent Courses
BMI 738, Ethics for Data Scientists, and BMI 775, Computational Network Biology, are now approved as permanent BMI courses. BMI 738 is designed to educate data scientists, particularly those who work with biomedical data, about …
Associate Professor Tony Gitter featured in Cap Times AI article
Associate Professor Tony Gitter was featured in an article published by the Capital Times that discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to biomedical research. https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/researchers-uw-educators-see-a-bright-future-for-ai-in-health-care/article_e000507c-1f33-5a53-ac2d-44541ad8fad2.html/?&logged_out=1
Professor Mark Craven Wins NHGRI Grant
Professor KyungMann Kim Lead Editor of Newly Published Clinical Trials Handbook
Professor KyungMann Kim, the director of BMI’s Clinical Trials Program, is the lead editor of the newly published “Handbook of Statistical Methods for Randomized Controlled Trials” from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Professor Kim and fellow …
Mayampurath and Hu join BMI faculty
We are delighted to welcome assistant professors Anoop Mayampurath and Junjie Hu to the BMI faculty. Dr. Mayampurath is a clinical informatics expert who joined us from the University of Chicago, where he focused on …