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.
Seminars are usually held Thursdays from 3:30-5 p.m. PST unless otherwise listed. Check our Calendar for upcoming lectures.
Recent Recordings
- Robust Methods for Surrogate Marker Evaluation presented May 30 by Layla Parast, PhD, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
- Simulator: the Swiss Army knife of biomedical data science presented May 23 by Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, UCLA
- Statistical Analysis for Correlative Data in CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy Trials: Challenges and Opportunities presented May 16, 2024, by Qian (Vicky) Wu, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences Divisions, and Member, Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center, Fred Hutch.
- Anatomy of Event Studies: Hypothetical Experiments, Exact Decomposition, and Robust Estimation presented May 9, 2024 by José Zubizarreta, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health. Recording not available due to ongoing research. UW Biostatistics students, faculty, and staff should contact the seminar coordinator to request access.
- Beyond Global Correlations presented May 2, 2024, by Hongyu Zhao, PhD, Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health.
- Scalable computational methods and software for single-cell and spatial data science presented April 26, 2024 by Stephanie Hicks, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
- Test-negative designs from Influenza, Dengue and Ebola to COVID-19 presented April 18, 2024 by Nicholas Jewell, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
- From Biostatistician to Administrator: A Personal Journey presented April 11, 2024 by Norman E. Breslow Distinguished Lecturer Kung-Yee Liang (PhD 1982 Biostatistics), Distinguished Chair Professor and Senior Advisor for Office of the President, Feng Chia University; former president, National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan
- Safeguarding medically underserved populations in EHR-based research subject to informed presence bias presented April 3, 2024, by Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania.
- Uniform Inference for Local Conditional Quantile Treatment Effect Curve with High-Dimensional Covariates presented March 28, 2024, by Jing Tao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington
- Keeping your Microbiome Analyses out of the Toilet: Batch Effects and Robust Testing presented March 7, 2024, by Michael Wu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Model misspecification and differential abundance in microbiome studies presented February 29, 2024 by Amy Willis, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington.
- Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression presented February 22, 2024 by Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School; University of Pennsylvania
- Diagnosing the role of observed heterogeneity in replication studies presented February 15, 2024 by Dominik Rothenhäusler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
- Pre-Training Data Selection for Representation Learning presented February 9, 2024 by Simon Shaolei Du, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
- Developing risk prediction models for suicide prevention research, presented February 1, 2024 by Susan Shortreed, PhD, Senior Biostatistics Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Causal Inference for Continuous Exposures: Challenges and Opportunities, Ross L. Prentice Lecture presented December 7, 2023, by Andrea Rotnitzky, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- The genetic architecture of cancer, seminar presented November 30, 2023, by Sara Lindstroem, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington
- Adaptive conformal classification with noisy labels, seminar presented November 9, 2023, by Matteo Sesia, PhD, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, USC Marshall School of Business
- Graph Learning for Functional Neuronal Connectivity, seminar presented November 2, 2023, by Genevera Allen, PhD, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University; Founder, Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge
- Two Deep Learning Examples from Vaccine and Infectious Disease Studies, seminar presented October 26 by Youyi Fong, PhD, Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington
- Model Selection over Partially Ordered Sets, seminar presented October 19 by Armeen Taeb, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Washington.
- Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview, seminar presented October 12 by Lexin Li, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
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