Feb 13, 2023, Pro.f Harrison Zhou from Yale University visited our center and gave a talk, the title was Leave-one-out Singular Subspace Perturbation Analysis for Spectral Clustering。




Feb 13, 2023, Pro.f Harrison Zhou from Yale University visited our center and gave a talk, the title was Leave-one-out Singular Subspace Perturbation Analysis for Spectral Clustering。
On October 24, 2022, Prof. Denis Belomestny from the Duisburg-Essen Communicated with the Professors of Our Center and Gave a talk. The title was Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Randomisation。
On May 16, 2022,Dr. Zhiyong Lu from the National Institutes of Health of the US communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was PubMed & Beyond: Biomedical Text Mining for Knowledge Discovery.
Dr. Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, will be the recipient of the 2022 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science and will deliver a virtual lecture in May 2022.
Described by colleagues as “a force of nature”, “a major star”, and “one of the most influential statistical scientists of our time”, Dr. Lin has distinguished herself as a world leader in statistical methods and applications who has dedicated her career to advancing biostatistics, medicine, and public health.
After earning her PhD at the University of Washington and spending almost 10 years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Lin joined the faculty at Harvard in 2005. Her research has evolved over the years, motivated by the pressing analytical needs in health research. Early in her career, she focused on statistical method development and applications for analysis of longitudinal data and complex observational studies. She became a leader in mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, missing data, and measurement error for analysis of longitudinal data, and causal inference for complex clinical trials. Later in her career her research shifted to statistical genetics and genomics, with her work becoming a hallmark in statistical methods for analysis of rare variants (RVs) in whole genome sequencing studies. She founded and has been the Coordinating Director of Harvard’s Program in Quantitative of Genomics (PQG) since 2008. Most recently, Dr. Lin has been on the forefront of COVID-19 research, becoming part of a team analyzing the first data out of Wuhan, China and the effectiveness of control measures. In addition to several other efforts, she is the PI of the HowWeFeel project that launched an app in spring 2020 to collect COVID-19 health and exposure data in US and other countries.
Dr. Lin has given back to the statistical and biostatistical community in immeasurable ways through her extraordinary service and leadership. She chaired the Harvard Biostatistics department from 2015-2018, helping to launch an MS program in Health Data Science, one of the first in the nation. As coordinating director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG), she will help organize its 16th conference, “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Gene Editing” later this year. She is the former Chair of the COPSS, and a former member of the Committee of Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the National Academy of Science. She is the former Coordinating Editor of Biometrics, the founding co-editor of Statistics in Biosciences, and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and American Journal of Human Genetics.
On Dec 20, 2021,Prof. Martin Wainwright from the University of California, Berkely communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Beyond Worst-case: Instance-dependent Optimality in Reinforcement Learning。
On Dec 14, 2021,Prof. Dongming Huang from National University of Singapore communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Controlled Variable Selection with More Flexibility.
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On Dec 13, 2021,Prof. Chuan Hong from Duke University communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Realizing the Potential of EHR Data for Clinical Research: Overcoming Noisiness, Privacy Constraints and Heterogeneity。
On Nov 29, 2021,Prof. Julia Palacios from Stanford University communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Distance-based Summaries and Modeling of Evolutionary Trees.
On Nov 15, 2021,Prof. Lucas Janson from Harvard University communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Floodgate: inference for model-free variable importance。
On Nov 8, 2021,Prof. Yanyuan Ma from The Pennsylvania State University communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Robust and Efficient Estimation under Nonignorable Missing Response。