Leading biostatisticians and scholars are featured in our weekly department seminar series which covers a wide range of topics, issues and methods relevant to the field of biostatistics.
Spring Quarter 2025 Seminars
Seminars are usually held Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 p.m. PDT unless otherwise listed. Check our calendar to view confirmed seminars scheduled.
Spring 2025 Seminar Recordings
Links to seminar recordings will be posted 1-2 days after the seminar (providing permission has been given to record).
- Partial least squares regression: Highlights from what we learned in the past decade presented May 1 by Dennis Cook, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota.
- Navigate the Crossroad of Statistics, ML/AI and Genomic and Health Science presented April 24 by Xihong Lin, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (recording coming soon).
- Harmonized Estimation of Subgroup-Specific Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials: The Use of External Control Data presented April 17 by Lorenzo Trippa, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This seminar recording is available only to UW Biostat students, faculty, and staff. Email nelsod6@uw.edu to request the link.
- Being Realistic About Unmeasured Biases in Observational Studies presented April 11 by Paul Rosenbaum, PhD, Robert G. Putzel Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Generative AI for Multimodal Biomedicine presented April 3 by Sheng Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.
Winter 2025 Seminar Recordings
- Statistical issues in the design, analysis, and reporting of cardiovascular outcome clinical trials in diabetes and obesity presented January 23 by Scott Emerson, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Addressing Real-world Challenges in Cancer Early Detection and Therapeutic Studies presented January 16 by Yingqi Zhao, PhD, Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
- Veridical Data Science and Alignment in Medical AI presented January 9, 2025 by Bin Yu, PhD, CDSS Chancellor's Distinguished Professor; Departments of Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences and Center for Computational Biology; University of California, Berkeley
Autumn 2024 Seminar Recordings
Topics in proximal causal inference presented September 26, 2024 by Kendrick Li, PhD, Assistant Faculty Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Advancing Health at the Speed of AI presented October 3, 2024 by Hoifung Poon, PhD, General Manager, Health Futures, Microsoft
Multi-task Learning for Gaussian Graphical Regressions with High Dimensional Covariates presented October 10, 2024, by Yi Li, PhD, M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics; Professor, Global Public Health, University of Michigan
Design Sensitivity and Its Implications for Weighted Observational Studies presented October 17, 2024, by Sam Pimentel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California Berkeley
Improving estimates of brain connectivity in autism spectrum disorder presented October 24, 2024 by Benjamin Risk, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Statistical Analysis of Spatial Proteomics: Investigating the Mysteries of Space and TIME presented October 31, 2024 by Michael Wu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Identifying Ascertainment Bias in Clinical Genetic Data presented November 8, 2024 by Brian Shirts, MD PhD, Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics; Associate Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; University of Washington
- Outliers or Reformists? Robust estimators and their role in applied studies presented December 5, 2024 by Gabriela V. Cohen Freue, PhD, Associate Professor of Statistics, The University of British Columbia