Announcements
Announcements
Biostatisticians Mingyao Li, PhD, and Sharon Xiangwen Xie, PhD (pictured), have been elected fellows of the American Statistical Association, the largest professional organization for statisticians in the United States. Read more.
Danish Saleheen, PhD, has garnered a Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum for his leadership of a project that examines loss-of-function genetic mutations—which can yield valuable information about basic biology and possible therapeutics for major medical disorders. Read more.
Two biostatistics PhD students—Rui Duan and Jiarui Lu–have won prestigious Distinguished Paper awards from ENAR, the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society. Read more.
For his “distinguished contributions to statistical genetics methodology, promotion of statistical reasoning in society, and modeling of high dimensional genomic and metagenomic data," Hongzhe Li, PhD, has been selected as a new fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more.
Qi Long, PhD, has been selected to participate in a winter faculty fellowship in Israel. The program is an opportunity to interact with counterparts in major Israeli institutions and to learn more about Israel's people, society and diverse culture. Read more.
George Demiris, PhD, FACMI, a leader in new technologies for e-health and home-based health care, will hold joint faculty appointments in the DBEI and in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences of the School of Nursing. Read more.
John Holmes, PhD, FACE, FACMI, is among the first class elected to the International Medical Informatics Association's International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. The Academy is an honor society that recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally. Read more.
Dr. Moore has been elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the primary professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. His research focuses on developing and applying artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods for uncovering complex patterns in biomedical big data. Read more.
Edward Kennedy, PhD in Biostatistics, ’16, has won the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Kennedy earned the award for his paper "Robust Estimation and Inference for the Local Instrumental Variable Curve.” Read more.
Correlation doesn’t equal causality—but contemporary statistical methods give us ways to estimate what does. Dr. Roy’s new Coursera “Crash Course in Causality: Inferring Causal Effects from Observational Data,” the first-ever open course taught by a member of our primary faculty, begins in June. Registration is now open. Read more.
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