Associate Professor Qiongshi Lu and colleagues were highlighted in a Nature Genetics article for their work on the perils of relying on AI to predict complex traits and disease risks with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, …
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Guanhua Chen wins PCORI award
PCORI awarded BMI Associate Professor Guanhua Chen a 3-year, $1.05M contract for a study titled “Learning Interpretable and Fair Personalized Treatment Rules.” Dr. Chen will collaborate with Professor Maureen Smith (co-I) and Dr Jared Huling …
Daifeng Wang co-I on $9M NIH award to study Down Syndrome
Associate Professor Daifeng Wang is co-investigator on a newly awarded $9M grant to study Down Syndrome. Sigan Hartley (PI) and the team will conduct an in-depth study of factors driving the risk and severity of …
Juan Caicedo profiled in Morgridge SPARK newsletter
Assistant Professor and Morgridge Investigator Juan Caicedo is featured in the December 2023 SPARK newsletter published by the Morgridge Institute for Research. The profile describes his interest in using AI to develop “an image processing …
Machine learning algorithm to improve estimation and integration of single-cell data
Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, with research group members Noah Cohen Kalafut and Xiang Huang, published a paper titled “Joint variational autoencoders for multimodal imputation and embedding” in Nature Machine Intelligence on May 29. The algorithm, …
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) …
BMI Affiliate Matt Churpek and Colleagues Publish Findings on Factors that May Increase COVID Death Rate in ICU Patients
BMI affiliate Dr. Matt Churpek and colleagues published an analysis of 4,019 severely ill COVID-19 patient outcomes at 70 hospitals. The study incorporates a mix of hospital system and patient characteristics that may increase death …
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 …
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 …