Biostatistics

Seminars - Fall 2025/Winter 2026

Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development. The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.

Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.

PLEASE NOTE: The Fall 2025/Winter 2026 Seminar Series will be held in hybrid format (in-person/Zoom) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, at the SPGH, 2001 McGill College, Room 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.

MEET & GREET with speakers (coffee/cookies will be served) from 3-3:30 PM (Room 1140) prior to the seminar 

FALL 2025

Date Speaker Title Recording
Aug 27, 2025
IN-PERSON
Leonardo Grilli (U of Florence) Combining Multiple Imputation and the Knockoff Filter for Variable Selection, with an Application to Large-Scale Assessment Data  

Sept 3, 2025
IN-PERSON

Fatema Shafie Khorassani (Boston University) Data Fusion for Studying Cancer Surveillance Databases  

Sept 10, 2025
IN-PERSON

Dehan Kong (University of Toronto) Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments  
Sept 17, 2025 
IN-PERSON
Li-Pang Chen (National Chengchi University)

Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Noisy Survival Data Analysis

 
Sept 24, 2025
VIRTUAL
James Zou (Stanford) AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries  
Oct 1, 2025
IN-PERSON
Valentine Laizet (Amaris Consulting) Presentation of the Health Economics and Market Access (HEMA) department at Amaris Consulting for consulting in Healthcare Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)  
Oct 8, 2025
IN-PERSON
Justin Weltz (Duke)

Reinforcement Learning for Respondent-Driven Sampling

 
Oct 15, 2025  NO SEMINAR - Reading Week - Oct 15-17, 2025  
Oct 22, 2025
VIRTUAL
Nima Hejazi (Harvard)    
Oct 29, 2025
IN-PERSON
Magali Richard (U Grenoble Alpes)    
Nov 5, 2025
IN-PERSON
Camila de Souza (Western)    
Nov 12, 2025      
*Friday, Nov 21, 2025
CSMQ Seminar Series
IN-PERSON
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA)    

WINTER 2026

Date Speaker Title Recording
Jan 7, 2026      
Jan 14, 2026      

Jan 21, 2026
VIRTUAL

Chixiang Cheng (Maryland)    
Jan 28, 2026      
Feb 4, 2026
IN-PERSON
Guilherme de Oliveira (McGill)    
Feb 11, 2026      
Feb 18, 2026      
Feb 25, 2026
IN-PERSON
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon)    
Mar 5, 2026 NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026  
Mar 11, 2026 Oscar Competition - tbc    
Mar 18, 2026  
 
 
Mar 25, 2026      
Apr 1, 2026      

 

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