Presentations

Invited Talks

2025. Invited oral presentation at the Old Dominion University College of Sciences “Science Friday”, Norfolk VA, USA – “Biomarker identification and disease prediction using statistical methods in genomic studies.”

2023. Invited oral presentation at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA – “An empirically adjusted weighted ordered p-values method for meta analysis.” 

2022.  Invited oral presentation at the Truman State University, Kirksville MO, USA – “An empirically adjusted weighted ordered p-values method for meta analysis.” 

2022. Invited oral (and poster) presentation at the IMS New Researchers Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA – “An empirically adjusted weighted ordered p-values method for meta analysis.” 

2022. Invited oral presentation at the Old Dominion University Association for Women in Mathematics, Norfolk VA, USA – “A roadmap to a career in Biostatistics and Data Science.” 

2020. Invited oral presentation at the Old Dominion University College of Sciences “Science Friday”, Norfolk VA, USA – “Integrative Statistical Analysis of -Omics Data in Disease Studies.”

2019. Invited oral presentation at the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference on “Innovations in Data and Statistical Sciences”, Mumbai, India – “Empirical Adjustments to Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing in Genomic Experiments.”

2019. Invited oral presentation at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA – “Empirical Adjustments to Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing in Genomic Experiments.”

2019. Invited oral presentation at the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University, Clemson SC, USA – “Empirical Adjustments to Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing in Genomic Experiments.”

2019. Invited oral presentation at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University, Logan UT, USA – “Empirical Adjustments to Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing in Genomic Experiments.”

2018. Invited oral presentation at the Epigenetics Group meeting at the UW CHARGE Baltimore meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA – “Unique newborn methylation   signatures of maternal smoking during pregnancy not observed in adults from personal smoking.”

2017. Invited oral presentation at the Epidemiology branch at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham NC, USA – “Meta-analysis and integrative analysis of -omics data.”

2014. Invited for competing at the 13th Annual International Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA 2014), Boston MA, USA – “An integrative exploratory analysis of –omics data from the ICGC cancer genomes lung adenocarcinoma study.”

Contributed Talks

2023. Contributed oral presentation at the International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Statistics Congress (WSC), Ottawa, Canada - “An empirically adjusted weighted ordered p-values method for meta-analysis.”

2022. Contributed oral presentation at Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS), Pittsburgh PA, USA– “An Empirically Adjusted Weighted Ordered P-values Method for Meta-Analysis.”

2021. Contributed oral presentation at Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) (Virtual)– “Robust Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Genomic Experiments based on an Empirical Approach.”

2020. Contributed oral presentation at JSM (Virtual)– “Meta-Analysis of Genomic Experiments: An Empirical Approach.”

2020. Contributed oral presentation at the International Conference on Strategic Management, Decision Theory and Data Science (SMDTDS), Kolkata, India – “Empirical Adjustments to Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing in Genomic Experiments.”

2018. Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, San Diego CA, USA – “Unique methylation signatures  of maternal smoking exposure during pregnancy.”

2018. Contributed oral presentation at ENAR, Atlanta GA, USA – “Empirically adjusted meta-analysis (EAMA) for large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing in   genomic experiments.”

2017. Contributed oral presentation at ENAR, Washington D.C, USA – “A novel statistical approach for identification of the master regulator transcription factor.”

2016. Contributed oral presentation at the 13th Annual Conference on Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM '16), Newark NJ, USA – “An   integrative exploratory analysis of –omics data from the ICGC cancer genomes lung adenocarcinoma study.

2015. Contributed oral presentation at the 9th International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Kolkata, India – “An integrative exploratory analysis of –omics data from the ICGC cancer genomes lung adenocarcinoma study.”

Posters

2020. Contributed poster presentation at the 2020 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (virtual) – “Meta-Analysis of Genomic Experiments: An Empirical Approach”.

2019. Peer-reviewed RAPiD poster presentation at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, Dallas TX, USA – “Interaction between polygenic risk for reduced pulmonary function and smoking, asthma, and endotoxin in the Agricultural Lung Health Study”

2018. Contributed poster presentation and poster blitz at the UW CHARGE Baltimore meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA – “Unique newborn methylation signatures of maternal smoking during pregnancy not observed in adults from personal smoking”

2018. Contributed poster presentation on the Science Days at NIEHS, Durham NC, USA – “Comparison of smoking related DNA methylation in newborns from maternal smoking during pregnancy, and in adults from personal smoking.”

2018. Contributed poster presentation on the Genomics Day at NIEHS, Durham NC, USA – “Unique methylation signatures of maternal smoking exposure during pregnancy.”

2017. Contributed poster presentation at the Biostatistics Workshop on Statistical Inference on Biomedical Big Data at University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA – “Exploring the importance of cancer pathways by meta-analysis of differential protein expression networks in three different cancers.”

2016. Contributed poster presentation on the Research Day at University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA – “Exploring the importance of cancer pathways by meta-analysis of differential protein expression networks in three different cancers.”