Check out this year's line-up of UW Biostatistics students, recent graduates, faculty, and alumni presenting at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts from August 2-6, 2026. Email nelsod6@uw.edu with any presentations we missed!

Sunday, August 2

• 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Pamela Shaw faculty 
  "Understanding and Tackling Measurement Error: A Review of Modern Practical Methods," Room CC-150, Professional Development Course/ICE
• 2:05 to 2:25 p.m. — Ali Shojaie faculty 
  "Inferring gene regulatory networks from single cell multi-omics data," Room CC-258A, Session: Novel Approaches for the Analyses of Next-Generation Modern Omics Data 
• 2:20 to 2:35 p.m. — Ana Gabriela Vasconcelos recent grad 
  "Accounting for Spatial Correlation in Network Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data," Room CC-257A, Student Paper Competion Awards Session, Statistics in Genomics and Genetics Section
• 2:25 to 2:45 p.m. — Ting Ye faculty 
  "Proximal Learning for Trials with External Controls," Room CC-107A, Session: Integrating data from external sources: new methods for observational studies and randomized trials
• 5:20 to 5:35 p.m. — Yuhan Qian student
  "Robust and Data-Adaptive Integration of Nonconcurrent Data in Platform Trials via Gaussian Processes," Room CC-257A, Student Paper Competition Awards Session, Biopharmaceutical Section

Monday, August 3

• 8:30 to 10:20 a.m. — Patrick Heagerty faculty (panelist)
  "Implementing the Estimand Framework in Medical Publications: Challenges and Best Practices," Room CC-210A, panel session
• 8:55 to 9:15 a.m — Wei Sun faculty
  "Learning Cancer-Specific Cellular and Molecular Features from Histopathology Foundation Model Embeddings," Room CC-206A, Session: Advances in Statistical and AI Methods for Digital Pathology and Spatial Molecular Imaging
• 9:50 to 10:05 a.m — Antonio Olivas-Martinez alumni
  "Source-Condition Analysis of Kernel Adversarial Estimators," Room CC-256, Session: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling and Inference
• 10:35 to 10: 55 a.m. — Jing Ma faculty
  "Mediation Analysis with Compositional Exposures," Room CC-156B, Session: Modern Statistical and Computational Advances in Microbiome-multiomics Integration
• 11:15 to 11:35 a.m. — Jasper Yang student
  "Optimal two-phase sampling designs for studies using error-prone electronic health record data with multiple parameters of interest.," Room CC-156A, Session: Smarter Data Integration: Statistical Methods for Multi-phase and Multi-source Data
• 11:20 to 11:35 a.m. — Jaewon Lin recent grad
  "Estimation of causal dose-response functions under data fusion," Room CC-106, Session: Data Fusion and Subgroup Analysis
• 11:25 to 11:50 a.m. — Jingyi Jessica Li  faculty 
  "Definitions and Applications of Spatial Niches in Spatial Omics Data Analyses: A Summary and Discussion," Room CC-156C, Session: Statistical and AI Models in Spatial Omics for Precision Medicine and Health
• 11:35 to 11:55 a.m. — Eardi Lila  faculty
  "A physics-informed geometric deep learning method for electrophysiological source reconstruction," Room CC-253A, Session: Advances in Functional Data Methods for Biomedical Brain Imaging Studies
• 3:25 to 3:45 p.m — James Peng recent grad
  "Vaccine sieve analysis on deep sequencing data using competing risks Cox regression with failure type subject to misclassification," Room CC-255, Session: Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Section Student Paper Awards

Tuesday, August 4

• 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. — Jennifer Bobb faculty (panelist)
  "Making an Impact through Statistical Leadership: Methods, Collaboration, and Beyond," Room CC-156C, panel session
• 10:50 to 11:05 a.m. — Zichun Xu student
  "Efficient data fusion under exchangeability of functionals," Room CC-257A, Session: Methods for Data Integration under Constraints
• 11:05 to 11:20 a.m. — Zhaoheng Li student
  "Manifold‑Informed Gene‑module Extraction for Disentangling Simultaneous Dynamics in scRNA‑Seq," Room CC-254A, Session: Spatial Omics: Clustering and Integration
• 11:15 to 11:35 a.m. — Ethan Ashby recent grad
  "Debiasing Hazard-Based, Time-Varying Vaccine Effects Using Vaccine-Irrelevant Infections: An Observational Extension of a Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Trial," Room CC-257B, Session: Biometrics Section Early Career Paper Award Session
• 4:25 to 4:45 p.m. — Yilin Song alumni
  "Proximal Learning for Trials With External Controls: A Case Study in HIV Prevention," Room CC-257B, Session: Statistics in Epidemiology Early Career Paper Competition

Wednesday, August 5

• 9:15 to 9:35 a.m. — Yingqi Zhao faculty
  "PRIMAL–DUAL ALTERNATING NEURAL LEARNING FOR TIMELY CLASSIFICATION WITH PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES," Room CC-105, Session: Agentic AI and Bayesian Methods for Transforming Clinical Research and Trial Design
• 10:35 to 10:50 a.m. — Jingyi Guan student
  "A Permutation-Based Test for Spatial Colocalization in Heterogeneous Tissue Samples," Room CC-255, Session: Spatial Methods for Imaging Data
• 11 to 11:25 a.m. — Ken Rice faculty
  "Advances in Methods for Integrating Heterogeneous Health Data," Room CC-210C, Session: Advances in Methods for Integrating Heterogeneous Health Data
• 12:05 to 12:20 p.m. — Ameer Dharamshi recent grad
  "Testing hypotheses via orthogonalization," Room CC-252A, Session: Hypothesis Testing and AI-Assisted Inference
• 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. — Ruth Etzioni faculty
  "Clinical Trials Shape Health Policies but How Can Statisticians Influence the Policies That Shape Trials? A Report from the New Era of Cancer Early Detection," Room CC-251, Session: Health Policy Statistics Section Lunchtime Speaker (Added Fee)
• 2:05 to 2:25 p.m. — Aaron Hudson alumni
  "A class of nonparametric methods for evaluating the effect of continuous treatments on survival outcomes," Room CC-206B, Session: Causal Inference in Survival Analysis: Emerging Methods for Complex Data Challenges
• 2:05 to 2:25 p.m. — Rui Wang student
  "Generalized projection tests for function-valued parameters with applications to testing structural causal assumptions," Room CC-211, Session: Semiparametric and Nonparametric Advances Confronting Non-ideal and Testable Model Assumptions in Causal Inference and Missing Data
• 2:30 to 2:55 p.m. — Fei Gao faculty
  "Estimating causal risk ratio under complex longitudinal adherence patterns with time-varying principal stratification," Room CC-252A, Session: Recent Theoretical and Methodological Advances in Causal Inference for Survival Data
• 3:35 to 3:50 p.m. — Yu-Ru Su faculty
  "On leveraging parametric and machine learning-based multiple imputations in clinical risk modeling," Room CC-212, Session: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology 8 - Missing Data & Bias Adjustment

Thursday, August 6

• 8:35 to 8:50 a.m.  — Yimin Zhao student
  "Benchmarking Conformal Inference Under Covariate Shift," Room CC-102B, Session: Conformal Prediction and Conformal Inference
• 9:35 to 9:55 a.m. — Michael Wu faculty
  "ReDAQt the Virome: When Depth Gets Too Deep," Room CC-211, Session: Future Directions in Statistical Microbiome Research
• 11:15 to 11:35 a.m. — Brian Williamson faculty
  "Marginal generalized raking for incomplete data," Room CC-204B, Session: Using Two-Phase Design and Analysis Methods to Improve Risk Estimation in Large-Scale Cohort Studies and EHR Data