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 in-person speakers, (coffee/cookies will be served) from 3-3:30 PM (Room 1140) prior to each seminar
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 |
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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) |
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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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Speaker |
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Recording |
| Jan 7, 2026 |
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| Jan 14, 2026 |
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Jan 21, 2026
VIRTUAL
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Chixiang Cheng (Maryland) |
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| Jan 28, 2026 |
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Feb 4, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Guilherme de Oliveira (McGill) |
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| Feb 11, 2026 |
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| Feb 18, 2026 |
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Feb 25, 2026
IN-PERSON |
Alex Levis (Carnegie Mellon) |
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| Mar 5, 2026 |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 2-6, 2026 |
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| Mar 11, 2026 |
Oscar Competition - tbc |
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| Mar 18, 2026 |
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| Mar 25, 2026 |
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| Apr 1, 2026 |
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