People & Slides
Plenary Speakers
Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington)
Title of the talk: As data density increases: From pedigrees to populations to pedigrees [slides]
Hongyu Zhao (Yale University)
Title of the talk: Bayesian nonparametric methods for prediction of complex traits using summary statistics across populations [slides]
Denise Scholtens (Northwestern University)
Title of the talk: Network models for multi-omics data [slides]
Invited Speakers
Benedict Anchang (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Title of the talk: Benchmarking computational framework for optimal visualization of high-dimensional data with unknown ground truths [slides]
Saonli Basu (University of Minnesota)
Title of the talk: Efficient SNP-based heritability estimation using Gaussian predictive process in large-scale cohort studies [slides]
Yuehua Cui (Michigan State University)
Title of the talk: Causal inference with Mendelian randomization for longitudinal traits [slides]
Diptavo Dutta (National Cancer Institute)
Title of the talk: Sparse canonical correlation to identify gene networks trans-regulated by disease-related genetic variants [slides]
Andrea Foulkes (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital)
Title of the talk: Statistical challenges in COVID and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) clinical research [slides]
Shannon Gillespie (Ohio State University)
Title of the talk: Analytical triangulation identifies priority DMCs for further evaluation: Findings from a nested case-control study of spontaneous preterm birth [slides]
Katerina Kechris (Colorado School of Public Health)
Title of the talk: Networks inference and deep learning for multi-omics classification [slides]
Abbas Khalili (McGill University, Canada)
Title of the talk: Sparse estimation in varying coefficient regression mixtures [slides]
Lin Li (PharmaLex)
Title of the talk: Genomic data science in drug discovery and development [slides]
Rong Lu (Stanford University)
Title of the talk: When to encourage using Gaussian regression for feature selection tasks with time-to-event outcome [slides]
Yuqun (Abigail) Luo (Food and Drug Administration)
Title of the talk: Advancing advanced therapeutics: Biostatistician’s roles and contributions to FDA and CBER’s regulatory missions and innovations [slides]
Peter Müller (University of Texas at Austin)
Title of the talk: Bayesian Nonparametric Bivariate Survival Regression for Current Status Data [slides]
Karabi Nandy (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Title of the talk: The Psychometric Analyses of a Measure of Suicidal Risk in Adolescent Outpatients [slides]
Tony Ng (Bentley University)
Title of the talk: Statistical modeling approaches for the comparison of dissolution profiles [slides]
Liang Niu (University of Cincinnati)
Title of the talk: IUTA: A tool for effectively detecting differential isoform usage from RNA-Seq data [slides]
Li-Xuan Qin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Title of the talk: Evidence-based practice of omics data harmonization for survival outcome prediction [slides]
Zhaohui (Steve) Qin (Emory University)
Title of the talk: Accurate detection of tissues affected by diseases using multi-tissue expression data [slides]
Sandra Safo (University of Minnesota)
Title of the talk: Randomized nonlinear association and prediction methods for multi-view learning with feature selection [slides]
Sunyoung Shin (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Title of the talk: Scalable test of statistical significance for protein-DNA binding changes with insertion and deletion of bases in the genome [slides]
Samiran Sinha (Texas A&M University)
Title of the talk: The MM algorithm for fitting the additive risk model to interval-censored data [slides]
Shuying Sun (Texas State University)
Title of the talk: Analysis of breast cancer co-methylation patterns [slides]
Asuman Turkmen (Ohio State University)
Title of the talk: Conditional independence tests for understanding multi-omics data [slides]
Jung-Ying Tzeng (North Carolina State University)
Title of the talk: Association methods for biobank studies: Scalable gene-environment interaction (GxE) tests and copy number variant (CNV) association tests [slides]
Shuyan (Sabrina) Wan (Merck)
Title of the talk: What and how we do as a pharmaceutical statistician [slides]
Meng Wang (Nationwide Children's Hospital)
Title of the talk: The 3D chromatin landscape of rhabdomyosarcoma [slides]
Zailong Wang (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
Title of the talk: Historical data borrowing in clinical trials [slides]
Michael Wu (Fred Hutch Cancer Center)
Title of the talk: Assessing the conditional correlation between genomic features and microbial taxa [slides]
Guanghua (Andy) Xiao (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Title of the talk: Deep learning identifies clinically-relevant cell-cell interactions in tissue images [slides]
Jingyuan Yang (AbbVie)
Title of the talk: Application of deep learning in biomedical image analysis [slides]
Min Zhang (Purdue University)
Title of the talk: Integrative analyses for large-scale gene regulatory network construction [slides]
Organizing Committee
Swati Biswas (University of Texas at Dallas)
Pankaj Choudhary (University of Texas at Dallas)
Qiwei Li (University of Texas at Dallas)
Charalampos (Babis) Papachristou (Rowan University)
Chuan-Fa Tang (University of Texas at Dallas)
Student Volunteers
Rozina Akter
Sharaf Anjum
Tejasv Bedi
Ying Chen
Lirit Fuksman
Hasini Gammune
Bhanu Garg
Aidan Gettemy
Jaidev Goel
Yanghong Guo
Mahmuda Jahan
Jimi Kim
Sanjaya Kumara Mananage
Kevin Lutz
Indrajith Mudiyanselage
Lakshika Ruberu
Ibrahim Sajal
Farabi Shuvo
Yaga Thomas
Tingfang Wang
Nisansala Wickramasinghe
Jie Yang
Weixi Zhu