Schedule

Day 1 (April 2nd, Friday)

9:00 - 9:15

Announcement (Dr. Brooke Fridley)


9:15 - 9:40


9:40 – 10:05


10:05 – 10:30

Invited Session (Chair: Dr. Yoga Balagurunathan)

  • Dr. Yasin Yilmaz, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

    • Title: Real-Time Video Anomaly Detection with Asymptotic Bound on False Alarm Rate

  • Dr. Mitch Hill, Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

    • Title: Energy-Based Models for Unsupervised Image Representation and Adversarial Defense

  • Dr. Adrian Barbu, Professor, Florida State University

    • Title: Learning nonlinear feature interactions in the data starved regime

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:15

COVID-19 Panel Discussion

  • Panelists: Drs. Ann Chen (Chair, Moffitt Cancer Center), Jeff Morris (U of Penn),
    Bob Small (The Coalition for Emergency Preparedness Innovation, CEPI),
    Jason Salemi (USF), Yang Yang (UF)

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 - 2:15

Keynote Speaker (Dr. Blakely McShane, University of Northwestern)

  • Title: Statistical Significance and the Dichotomization of Evidence

2:15 - 2:30

Break

2:30 - 4:00

Contributed Session: Application-I (Chair: Dr. Jongphil Kim)

2:30 – 2:45

  • Hasibul Hasan, Yang Yang, Kenah Eben, University of Florida

    • Title: Continuous Time MCMC Model for Transmission of Infectious Diseases in Close Contact Groups

2:45 – 3:00

  • Naomi Brownstein, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

    • Title: Zero-inflated negative binomial modeling illuminates racial disparities in cancer symptoms and illustrates the importance of careful statistical practice

3:00 – 3:15

  • Yanjia Zhang, University of South Florida, G. Daniel Grass, H. Michael Yu, Geoffrey G. Zhang, Dung-Tsa Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center

    • Title: Application of Random Forest in Analysis of GBM Image Data for Predicting Recurrence

3:15 – 3:30

  • Sneh Gulati, John Tenenholtz, and Florence George, Florida International University

    • Title: Some Multiple Regression Models for the number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States

3:30 – 3:45

  • Fan Yi, Peihua Qiu, University of Florida

    • Title: Water Resource Surveillance for the Salton Sea in California By Adaptive Sequential Monitoring of Its Landsat Images

3:45 – 4:00

  • Michiko I. Wolcott, Msight Analytics

    • Title: Effective Collaboration Practices When Working with Humans

4:00 - 4:15

Break

4:15 -

Networking / Breakout / Happy hour


Day 2 (April 3rd, Saturday)

9:00 - 10:00

Business Meeting

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote Speaker (Dr. Andrew Gelman, Columbia University)

11:00 - 11:30


Break/Posters

Contributed Session: Application-II
(Chair: Dr. Xiaoqing Yu)

Zoom Link for the Contributed session (same as the Main Link for the Meeting): https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/97833700645

11:30 - 11:45

  • Ling Cen, DungTsa Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

    • Title: Are we using the right response data for biomarker discovery and development?

11:45 – 12:00

  • Julia N. Soulakova, University of Central Florida

    • Title: Using Nation-Wide Surveys in Health Research: Statistical Considerations

12:00 – 12:15

  • Biwei Cao, Jongphil Kim, Moffitt Cancer Center

    • Title: The development of R shiny app for Covariate-Adjusted KM plot

12:15 – 12:30

  • Ram Thapa, Dung-Tsa Chen, Ling Cen, Biwei Cao, Wenyi Fan, Jiannong Li, Mahrukh Naqvi, Sandhya Prabhakaran, Zachary Thompson, Junmin Whiting, Alberto Chiappori, Aik Choon Tan, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

    • Title: Visualization and analytical tool of target lesions heterogeneity in assessing RECIST treatment response

12:30 – 12:45

  • Junmin Whiting, Ram Thapa, Biwei Cao, Ling Cen, Wenyi Fan, Jiannong Li, Mahrukh Naqvi, Sandhya Prabhakaran, Zachary Thompson, Hyo S. Han, Aik Choon Tan, Dung-Tsa Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

    • Title: An innovative approach to transform HIPAA date-sensitive data into HIPAA compliant time data

12:45 – 1:00

  • Syeda Mahrukh Hussnain Naqvi, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

    • Title: Analysis of unstructured clinical data using natural language processing and clustering method

Contributed Session: Theory
(Chair: Dr. Lu Lu)

Zoom Link for the Contributed session: https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/95868099254

11:30 - 11:45

  • Aditya Chakraborty, Chris P. Tsokos, University of South Florida

    • Title: Survival Analysis of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

11:45 – 12:00

  • Seungha Um, Florida State University

    • Title: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for Multivariate Skewed Responses

12:00 – 12:15

  • Chris Wilson, Ram Thapa, Jordan Creed, Brooke Fridley, Moffitt Cancer Center

    • Title: Ripley’s K with permutation testing to determine degree of spatial clustering of multiplex immunofluorescence data

12:15 – 12:30

  • Yue Mu, Florida State University

    • Title: Hypothesis Tests for Comparing Poisson Processes



12:30 – 12:45

  • Lohuwa Mamudu, Chris P. Tsokos, University of South Florida

    • Title: A New Statistical Modeling Approach for Survival Analysis of Cancer Patients - Multiple Myeloma Cancer

1:00 - 1:15

Closing Announcement (Dr. Aik Choon Tan)