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.
Winter 2026 Seminars
Seminars for winter 2026 are held Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. PST unless otherwise listed. Check our calendar to view confirmed speakers.
Seminar Recordings
Links to seminar recordings from our 2025-26 academic year. When speakers have given permission to record and post, session recordings are posted 1-2 business days after the seminar session date.
Winter 2026
- Integrating Machine Learning into Survival Analysis through Distribution-Free Conformal Prediction presented January 22 by Yu Shen, PhD, Oestmann Family Foundation Chair for Cancer Research, Division of Discovery Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Statistics in the Age of AI: Theory, Methods, and Data presented January 15 by Didong Li, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Autumn 2025
- Integrating genetics and single-cell genomics to define non-coding mechanisms of common and rare diseases presented November 20 by Saori Sakaue, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington,
- Statistical Frameworks for Dissecting Genetic Regulation in the Human Transcriptome presented November 13 by Pejman Mohammadi, PhD, Associate Professor, UW School of Medicine; Principal Investigator, Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
- Detecting conditional dependence in practice: why it's so hard, and what we can do presented November 6 by Danica Sutherland, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, The University of British Columbia
- Leveraging Statistical Machine Learning Models to Characterize the Progression of Neurodegenerative Diseases presented October 23 by Mariano Gabitto, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, Affiliate Professor of Statistics, University of Washington.
- l1-Regularized Generalized Least Squares presented October 16, 2025 by Alex Gibberd, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Statistics, Lancaster University.
- Generalization Beyond Data: A Distributional Perspective presented October 2, 2025 by Xinwei Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Washington