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.
FALL 2025
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Speaker |
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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 |
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Sept 3, 2025
IN-PERSON
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Fatema Shafie Khorassani (Boston University) |
Data Fusion for Studying Cancer Surveillance Databases |
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Sept 10, 2025
IN-PERSON
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Dehan Kong (University of Toronto) |
Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments |
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Sept 17, 2025
IN-PERSON |
Li-Pang Chen (National Chengchi University) |
Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Noisy Survival Data Analysis
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Sept 24, 2025
VIRTUAL |
James Zou (Stanford) |
AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries |
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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) |
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Oct 8, 2025
IN-PERSON |
Justin Weltz (Duke) |
Reinforcement Learning for Respondent-Driven Sampling
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| Oct 15, 2025 |
NO SEMINAR - Reading Week - Oct 14-17, 2025 |
Oct 22, 2025
VIRTUAL |
Nima Hejazi (Harvard) |
Evaluating the Causal Effects of Continuous Exposures under Network Interference with Induced Modified Treatment Policies |
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Oct 29, 2025
IN-PERSON |
Magali Richard (U Grenoble Alpes) |
Statistical and Computational Methods for the Analysis of Tumor Heterogeneity |
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Nov 5, 2025
IN-PERSON |
Camila de Souza (Western) |
Advancing Functional Data Clustering and Survival Analysis with Variational Inference |
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Nov 12, 2025
VIRTUAL |
Ting Ye (U of Washington) |
From Estimands to Robust Inference of Treatment Effects in Master Protocol Trials |
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*Friday, Nov 21, 2025
CSMQ Seminar Series
IN-PERSON |
Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA) |
Artificially Intelligent Geospatial Systems: A Case Study in Energetics for Mobile Health Data |
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*Monday, Nov 24, 2025
IN-PERSON |
Ying Yuan (U of Texas) |
SAM: Self-adapting Mixture Prior to Dynamically Borrow Information from Historical Data in Clinical Trials
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Nov 26, 2025
VIRTUAL |
James Zou (Stanford) |
AI agents to automate biomedical discoveries |
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WINTER 2026
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Recording |
Jan 7, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Michal Abrahamowicz (McGill) |
Phases of Development of the Weighted Cumulative Exposure Modeling |
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Jan 14, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Augustine Wigle (McGill) |
Doubly-Robust Bayesian Estimation of Individualized Treatment Rules Using Network Meta-Analysis |
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Jan 21, 2026
VIRTUAL |
Chixiang Cheng (Maryland) |
Promising Tools for Integrating Information from Secondary Outcomes to Improve Primary Data Analysis: A New Usage of Secondary Outcomes in the Era of Big Data |
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*Jan 28, 2026
10:00-11:00 AM
Online only
(via ZOOM) |
Kelly Van Lancker (Ghent University) |
Chasing Shadows: How Implausible Assumptions Skew Our Understanding of Causal Estimands |
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Feb 4, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Guilherme de Oliveira (McGill) |
A Zero-Inflated Spatiotemporal Model for Underreported Infectious Diseases Counts |
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Feb 11, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Arthur Chatton (UdeM) |
Checking the Positivity Assumption in Practice |
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| Feb 18, 2026 |
Sophia Yazzourh (Association des femmes scientifiques Africaines) |
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Feb 25, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon) |
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| Mar 4, 2026 |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026 |
| Mar 11, 2026 |
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| Mar 18, 2026 |
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Mar 25, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Oscar Competition |
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| Apr 1, 2026 |
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