Check out the great work accomplished by UW Biostatistics students, faculty, and alums presenting at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), August 2- August 7, in Nashville!  Email nelsod6@uw.edu with any presentations we missed!

Sunday, August 3

• 2:35 – 2:50 p.m. — Jingyi Guan Student 
  Assessing Topological Associations Between Immune Cell Structures in Spatial Proteomic Imaging Data, Room CC-101B, Session: Section on Statistics in Imaging Contributed Session 1
• 4:00 – 5:50 p.m. — Susan Shortreed Faculty (panelist)
  A Guideline for Handling Longitudinal Data Subject to Irregular Observation, Room CC-207B , Session: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
• 4:20 – 4:35 p.m. — Ana Gabriela Vasconcelos Student 
  Accounting for Spatial Correlation in Graphical Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data, Room CC-209B, Session: Advanced Computational and Graphical Methods in Genomics and Genetics
• 4:20 – 4:35 p.m. — Albert Osom Student 
  A general nonparametric framework for testing hypotheses about a class of function-valued parameters, Room CC-101A, Session: Modern Nonparametric Techniques: Beta-Trees, Ranked-Set Sampling, and Function-Valued parameters
• 5:20 – 5:45 p.m - Andrea Cook Faculty
  Methods for using Multi-Health Plan EHR data to conduct Active Safety Surveillance Studies of New Medical Products, Room CC-201A , Session: Recent Advances in Statistical Methods for Integrative Analyses of Healthcare Data

Monday, August 4

• 8:50 – 9:05 a.m.— Nir Keret Post doc
  GLM Inference with AI-Generated Synthetic Data Using Misspecified Linear Regression, Room CC-207C, Session: WNAR Contributed Session
• 8:55 – 9:15 p.m - Yates Coley Faculty
  The electronic health record Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule (eRADAR): External validation in two real-world healthcare systems, Room CC-101D, Session: AI for AD/ADRD Care: Essentials to Improve Learning Health Systems’ Management of Aging People
• 8:55 – 9:15 p.m - Yingqi Zhao Faculty
  Improve Fairness with Shift-Adjusted Neyman–Pearson Classifiers via Single Index Modeling (SACSI) Presentation, Room CC-101C, Session: Big Data Analysis with Applications to Biostatistics
• 10:35 a.m. – 10: 50 a.m. — Yinxiang Wu Student
  A More Robust Approach to Multivariable Mendelian Randomization, Room CC-207D, Session: Advances in Mendelian Randomization and Microbiome Studies
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. — Ali Shojaie Faculty (panelist)
  Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities in Biostatistics Graduate Education, Room CC-214, Session: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
• 10:50 – 11:05 a.m - Maricela Cruz Faculty
  A doubly hierarchical change point model for multi-unit interrupted time series in healthcare, Room CC-106C, Session: New Directions in Spatiotemporal Bayesian Methodology
• 10:55 – 11:15 a.m. — Albert Osom Student
  Developing Performance-Guaranteed Biomarker Combination Rules with Integrated External Information under Practical Constraint, Room CC-202C, Session: RAS Student Paper Competition Award Section
• 2:05 – 2:25 p.m - Ying Huang Faculty
  Optimizing Classification Performance with Decision Lists under Constraints, Room CC-207D, Session: Statistical Innovations for Assessing Linear and Non-Linear Associations in Genetic and Genomic Data
• 2:55 – 3:20 p.m - Jennifer Bobb Faculty
  Advancing Evidence for Opioid Use Disorder Treatments through Real-World Data and Novel Statistical Methods, Room CC-104A, Session: Innovations at the Interface of Statistics, AI, and Real-World Evidence
• 3:05 – 3:25 p.m. — Keshav Motwani Student
  Disentangling Genetic Contributions to Human Brain Connectivity Using an Efficient Estimator of Variance Components in Multivariate Random Effects Models, Room CC-103A, Session: Section on Statistics in Imaging Student Paper Competition Award Winners

Tuesday, August 5

• 9:15 – 9:35 a.m - Elizabeth Brown Faculty
  Using the adherence‐efficacy relationship of TDF/FTC to calculate counterfactual background HIV incidence: A Bayesian modeling approach, Room CC-101B, Session: Modern statistical methods in HIV research
• 10:35 – 10:50 a.m. - Zichun Xu Student
  A Unified Framework for Semiparametrically Efficient Semi-supervised Learning, Room CC-207D, Session: Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Award Presentations
• 10:35 – 10:55 a.m. - Ting Ye Faculty
  Causal Perspectives on Platform Trials for Continuous, Discrete, and Time-to-Event Outcomes, Room CC-104D, Session: Complex Innovative Trial Designs: Current State and Future Prospects
• 10:35 – 11 a.m. - Wei Sun Faculty
  Use Graph Neural Network to Study Spatial Proteomic Data, Room, CC-Davidson Ballroom B, Session: Innovative Statistical Methods and AI for unlocking the power of spatial omics
• 11:55 a.m. - 12:15 p.m - Kehao Zhu Recent Graduate
  Two-step Error-controlling Classifiers, Room CC-102A, Session: Medical Device and Diagnostics Section Student Paper Competition Winning Papers
• 2:05 – 2:25 p.m. - Michael Hellstern Student
  Assumption-Lean Inference for Spectral Differential Network Analysis of High-Dimensional Time Series, Room CC-104D, Session: Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science Student Paper Award Presentations

Wednesday, August 6

• 9:15 – 9:35 a.m.  — Pamela Shaw Faculty
  Assessing treatment effects in observational data with missing or mismeasured confounders: A comparative study of practical doubly-robust and traditional missing data methods, Room CC-102A, Session: From reactive to proactive medicine: Statisticians’ evolving roles in the learning health system
• 10:35 – 10:55 a.m.  — Pamela Shaw Faculty
  A brief overview of the STRATOS initiative, Room CC-209B, Session: The Strengthening Analytical Thinking in Observational Studies (STRATOS) Initiative
• 11:25 – 11:35 a.m. — Yuhan Qian Recent Graduate
  From Estimands to Robust Inference of Treatment Effects in Platform Trials, Room CC-207C, Session: ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Competition Award
• 12:30 – 1:50 p.m. — Kevin Lin Faculty
  WL09: From Faculty Hiring to Collaborative Success: Building a Thriving Academic Career, Room CC-Dean Grand Ballroom A2, Roundtables – Lunch Section on Statistical Computing P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee)
• 2:35 – 2:50 p.m. — Rui Wang Recent Graduate
  GMM with Many Weak Moment Conditions and Nuisance Parameters: General Theory and Applications, Room CC-211, Section: Robust and Semiparametric Methods in Causal Inference and Treatment Effect Estimation
• 10:35 – 11 a.m. — Ali Shojaie Faculty 
  Directed Graphical Models and Causal Discovery for Zero-Inflated Dat, Room CC-104E, Session: Innovations in Biological Network Modeling: Unraveling Omics Data Analysis
• 10:55 – 11:15 a.m. — Michael Wu Faculty
  Accommodating Differential Read Depth in Analyses of Virome Diversity, Room CC-104A, Section: Microbiome Beyond Bacteria with AI and statistical tools: Integrating Virome and Multi-Omics
• 11:50 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. — Yingye Zheng Faculty
  Raising the Bar for Launching Biomarker Utility Trial Design with Multi-stage Incidence and Mortality Modeling, Room CC-103C , Section: Pioneering New Strategies in Preventive Healthcare: Design and Analysis Innovations