Conferences

  • Invited talk on "Volcano and valley prior with adhesive shrinkage for high dimensional data", ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2022.

  • Invited talk on "New statistical approaches for microbiome selection and cancer research", BERD seminar at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Apr 2022.

  • Invited talk on "Bayesian Zero-Constrained Regression Modeling with Structured Prior for Microbiome Feature Selection", ENAR Spring Meeting, Mar 2022.

  • Invited talk on "Bayesian compositional regression for microbiome feature selection and cancer research", UC Statistics Seminar at University of Cincinnati, Mar 2022

  • Invited talk on "Bayesian Zero-Constrained Regression Modeling with Structured Prior for Microbiome Feature Selection", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Virtual Meeting, Aug 2021.

  • Invited talk on "Bayesian compositional regression with structured priors for microbiome feature selection", ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Virtual Meeting, Dec 2020.

  • Attending "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Microbiome", Virtual Meeting, Oct 2020.

  • Presenting ”Bayesian Logistic Regression and Survival Models with Structured Priors for Microbiome Feature Selection”, Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Virtual Meeting, Aug 2020.

  • Presenting ”Progressive permutation for a dynamic representation of the robustness of microbiome discoveries”, iBright Conference, Houston, TX, Nov 2019

  • Presenting poster "Bayesian variable selection in regression with compositional covariates", The Annual Postdoctoral Science Symposium (APSS), University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Sep 2019

  • Presenting ”A new flexible prior being local and nonlocal for Bayesian variable selection”, Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Denver, CL, Jul 2019

  • Presenting ”Bayesian variable selection in regression with compositional covariates”, Eastern North American Region (ENAR), Philadelphia, PA, Mar 2019

  • Attending talks on "Gut Health, Microbiota & Probiotics throughout the Lifespan", Harvard Probiotics Symposium, Boston, MA, Oct 2018

  • Presenting poster of ”Supervised learning on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease using a multi-state Markov model”, Eastern North American Region (ENAR), IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY Jun 2017

  • Presenting ”Patient-Specific prediction of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Expansion Using Bayesian Calibration”, Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Chicago, IL Aug 2016

  • Presenting ”Bayesian Calibration methods and its application in biomedical science”, Eastern North American Region (ENAR), Austin, TX, Mar 2016

  • Attending CCNS: Computational Neuroscience Summer School, SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute), North Carolina, Jul 2015