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Multivariate Mixed Outcome Modeling and Analysis (Proposal Presentation) image

Multivariate Mixed Outcome Modeling and Analysis (Proposal Presentation)

Presenter: Ziqian Zhuang

Supervisory Committee: Wei Xu (Supervisor), Amy Liu, Dehan Kong

Date and Time: Thursday, May 30, 2024, 12-2pm EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 734

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2024 Biostatistics Research Day - Paul Corey Poster Awards

Today, the SORA-TABA Annual Workshop and the DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day took place on the 7th floor of the Public Health Sciences Building. The event featured a workshop on correlated data analysis led by Professor Aya Mitani, and a career panel with alumni Laura Langer, Siyi Wang, Shuo Jia, and Jocelyn (Zimin) Chen.

Our talented graduate students showcased their research posters, presenting their findings to the academic community. We are proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Paul Corey Poster Awards:

1st Prize: Jinyu Luo 2nd Prize: Brenleigh Jebb 3rd Prize: Hongyu Chen

Congratulations to all the winners and participants for their hard work and contributions!

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Methods of Quantifying Within-Subject Variability for Longitudinal Sata with Irregular and Informative Observation (Proposal Presentation) image

Methods of Quantifying Within-Subject Variability for Longitudinal Sata with Irregular and Informative Observation (Proposal Presentation)

Presenter: Fatema Johara

Supervisory Committee: Eleanor Pullenayegum (Supervisor), Linda Hiraki, Andrew Paterson

Date and Time: Friday, May 10, 2024, 1-3pm EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 734

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Methods Addressing Irregularly Observed Longitudinal Data Subject to Outcome-Dependent Follow-Up and Informative Dropout (Proposal Presentation) image

Methods Addressing Irregularly Observed Longitudinal Data Subject to Outcome-Dependent Follow-Up and Informative Dropout (Proposal Presentation)

Presenter: George Stefan

Supervisory Committee: Eleanor Pullenayegum (Supervisor), Olli Saarela, Aya Mitani

Date and Time: Thursday, May 9, 2024, 12-2pm EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 734

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Interrogating the Shared Genetics A Multi-phenotype and Cross-locus Colocalization Framework (Proposal Presentation) image

Interrogating the Shared Genetics A Multi-phenotype and Cross-locus Colocalization Framework (Proposal Presentation)

Presenter: Hua (Henry) Lu

Supervisory Committee: Lisa Strug (Supervisor), Rae Yeung (Co-Supervisor), and Shelley Bull

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 2-4pm EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 734

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Biostatistics Students Join Tcairem Ai Medicine Summer Program

Student Spotlight: Youxue Ren & Feifan Xiang

We are proud to announce that Youxue Ren and Feifan Xiang, two outstanding MSc. Biostatistics students from the University of Toronto, have been selected for the prestigious T-CAIREM AI in Medicine Summer Student Research Program 2024. Congratulations to Youxue and Feifan!

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Ai4ph Scholarship Awardees Biostatistics Cohort


AI4PH Scholarship 2023-2024

Cohort In a remarkable display of academic excellence, our biostatistics PhD students have been awarded the prestigious AI4PH Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year: Xinyang (Sean) Feng and Zijin Liu.

Congratulations!

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Variable Categorization and Selection in the Context of Inverse Intensity Weighting for Longitudinal Data image

Variable Categorization and Selection in the Context of Inverse Intensity Weighting for Longitudinal Data

Presenter: Di Shan

Supervisory Committee: Eleanor Pullenayegum (Supervisor), Charlie Keown-Stoneman and Jessica Gronsbell

Date and Time: Thursday, September 28th , 2023 at 11:30am EST

Location: Health Sciences Building (155 College St), Room HS650

Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81894847575

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Your First Open Source Contribution

Presenter: Larry Dong, University of Toronto

Date and Time: Monday, September 25, 2023, 1pm - 2pm

Location: Room 734 @ Health Sciences building

Registration Link: https://ktq3lcblh4r.typeform.com/to/DzCJFJwG

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Intercept Estimation of Semiparametric Joint Models in the Context of Longitudinal Data Subject to Irregular Observations image

Intercept Estimation of Semiparametric Joint Models in the Context of Longitudinal Data Subject to Irregular Observations

Presenter: Luis Ledesma

Supervisory Committee: Eleanor Pullenayegum (Supervisor), Aya Mitani and Kuan Liu
Date and Time: Monday, September 11th, 2023 at 2pm EST

Location: Health Sciences Building (155 College St), Room HS650

Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87849654795

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Biopsychosocial Characterization of Cognitive Decline and Late Life  Depression Trajectories Using Bayesian Consensus Clustering and Machine Learning image

Biopsychosocial Characterization of Cognitive Decline and Late Life Depression Trajectories Using Bayesian Consensus Clustering and Machine Learning

Presenter: Mu Yang

Supervisory Committee: Dan Felsky (Supervisor), Osvaldo-Espin Garcia and Divya Sharma
Date and Time: Thursday, August 31st , 2023 at 10am EST

Location: Health Sciences Building (155 College St), Room HS734

Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81167651537

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2023 Conference Student Awards

Student Achievements: Conferences Awards 2023

We are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of our Biostatistics students: Xinyang (Sean) Feng, Ziqian Zhuang, Jasper Zhang, Luis Ledesma at various prestigious statistical conferences throughout 2023.

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How to Create a Research Poster

Presenter: Chen Chen

Date and Time: Friday, April 28, 2023, 2:10pm-3pm EST

Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84235632557

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Robust Genetic Association Testing Approaches Accounting For Heterogeneity image

Robust Genetic Association Testing Approaches Accounting For Heterogeneity

Presenter: Boxi Lin

Supervisory Committee: Lei Sun (Supervisor), Lisa Strug, and Shelley Bull

Date and Time: Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 10am-12noon EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 790

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Precision Public Health in Canada, Hurdles and Opportunities

Presenter: Dr. Zahra Shakeri, University of Toronto

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 3-4 PM EST

Location: https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/event/biostatistics-seminar-series-with-dr-zahra-shakeri-on-precision-public-health/

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Vol Methods

Presenter: Dr. Anna Heath, University of Toronto

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 3-4 PM EST

Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 790

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Develop Novel Statistical Methods For Analyzing Longread Sequencing Data

Presenter: Gengming He

Supervisory Committee: Lisa Strug (Supervisor), Lei Sun, and Dehan Kong

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 1-3pm EDT

Zoom Meeting Info: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83156954317

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Summer 2021 Student Award

STUDENT AWARDS, SUMMER 2021

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Sora Taba Workshop

Theme: “Statistical Machine Learning for Biomedical Data”

Description: https://sorataba.org/sora-taba-dlsph-workshop-2020/

Date: August 20-21, 2020

Time: 11am-5:30pm (EDT)

Registrationhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2020-sorataba-annual-workshop-tickets-113911670874

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Scholarship Information Session

Date: Thursday, August 6, 2020

Time: 12pm – 1pm (Eastern Time)

Location: Zoom

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International Genetic Epidemiology Society 2020

Theme: Clustering of Human Microbiome Sequencing Data: A Distance-based Unsupervised Learning Model

Date: July 03, 2020

Presenter: Dongyang Yang

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Biostatistics Research Day 2020

1st Place: Yuan (Kris) Bian (MSc, Thesis-Track)

2nd Place: Pai-Shan (Jason) Cheng (PhD, Year 2)

3rd Place: Boxi Lin (PhD, Year 1)

Honourable Mentions: Madeline Ward (UofGuelph), Linda Luu (MSc, Year 1)

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2020 Canadian Statistics Student Conference

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Introduction to Optimization and Parallel Processing in R image

Introduction to Optimization and Parallel Processing in R

Presenter: Osvaldo-Espin Garcia

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2019 Year in Review

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