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
Zoom Link for the Networking: https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/93498307333
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
Zoom Link for Natalie DelRocco: https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/96667038509
Title: An Enhanced Prognostic Index for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): A Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Report
Zoom Link for Zishen Xu: https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/92745968355
Title: Modeling and analyzing neuron signals with phase variability using Fisher-Rao registration
Zoom Link for Chenran Wang: https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/92777887939
Title: Predicting Amino Acid Sequences using a Parallel Convolutional Neural Network
Contributed Session: Application-II
(Chair: Dr. Xiaoqing Yu)
(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)
(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