Congratulations to our biostatistics students who have received honors recently! Two students won International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) Student Paper Travel Awards: Arielle Marks-Anglin (PhD student advised by Yong Chen, PhD), for her work on quantifying evidence of selective publishing in network meta-analysis, and Arman Oganisian (4th year PhD student advised by Nandita Mitra, PhD, and Jason Roy, PhD), for his work on nonparametric Bayesian causal approaches for health care cost analysis. Both will present their work at the ICHPS conference in January in San Diego.
Three PhD students were recognized at the American Society for Human Genetics Conference in Houston. Jiaxin Fan’s abstract was selected as a Reviewers’ Choice Abstract. She presented her research on allele-specific expression analysis. She is supervised by Mingyao Li, PhD, and Rui Xiao, PhD. Justin Lakkis was selected as a semifinalist for the Charles Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research. Justin presented his work on reconstruction of pseudotemporal trajectories in single-cell RNA-seq. He is supervised by Mingyao Li, PhD. Jian Hu was also selected as a semifinalist for the Charles Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research. Jian presented his work on transfer learning for single-cell RNA-seq clustering. He is also supervised by Mingyao Li, PhD.