2024 BUGS Potluck
The 2024 Biostatistics Division Potluck was a fun event, with students sharing delicious dishes from all over the world. Congratulations to the three winners for the best food and thanks to everyone who brought food!
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Celebrating Our 2024 Graduates
We proudly congratulate our 2024 Master’s and PhD graduates who celebrated their convocation ceremony on October 30th, 2024! We are excited to see how they will continue to shape the future of biostatistics!
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2024-2025 BUGS Kick-Off Event: Waterside Social
The 2024-2025 BUGS Kick-Off Event was fantastic! Held at the scenic Etobicoke Yacht Club on October 5th, the event brought together students, faculty, alumni, guests for an unforgettable afternoon and evening by the water.
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2024 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting Student Awards
Location: Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Dates: Sunday, June 2, 2024, to Wednesday, June 5, 2024
The 2024 SSC Annual Meeting saw active participation from UofT Biostatistics students across various competitions and presentations. Students showcased their research in the Case Study Competition, Student Presentation Competition, and the Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC), gaining valuable feedback and networking opportunities. Attendees also participated in workshops and academic sessions, further enriching their knowledge and contributing to the vibrant academic exchange at the event.
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A Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis Approach for Unmeasured Confounding in Longitudinal Data (MSc Defense)
Presenter: Yushu Zou
Supervisory Committee: Kuan Liu (Supervisor), Aya Mitani, Olli Saarela
Chair: Tony Panzarella
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 13:00-15:00pm EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 650
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A Novel Multi-arm, Two-stage Randomized Basket Design (MSc Defense)
Presenter: Qirui Hou
Supervisory Committee: Clement Ma (Supervisor), Amy Liu, Peter Szatmari
Chair: Tony Panzarella
Date and Time: Thursday, August 22, 2024, 12:00-14:00pm EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 734
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A Novel Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial Design with Internal Pilot Study and Unblinded Sample Size Re-estimation (MSc Defense)
Presenter: Aoqi Xie
Supervisory Committee: Clement Ma (Supervisor), Wendy Lou, Aya Mitani
Chair: Tony Panzarella
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 09:00-11:00pm EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 734
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Adaptive Platform Trials Through the Exploration of Alternative Treatment Ranking Methods (MSc Defense)
Presenter: Abigail McGrory
Supervisory Committee: Anna Heath (Supervisor), Michael Escobar, Haolun Shi
Chair: Tony Panzarella
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 11:00-13:00pm EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 734
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Optimal Sampling Design and Analysis for Two-Phase Studies with Ordinal Outcomes (MSc Defense)
Presenter: Mohammad Reza Fahimi
Supervisory Committee: Osvaldo Espin-Garcia (Supervisor), Aya Mitani (Supervisor), Victoria Landsman
Chair: Tony Panzarella
Date and Time: Thursday, August 1, 2024, 10:20-12:30pm EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building, Room 507
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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)
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)
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)
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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2024 Winter End of Semester Celebration: Fried Chicken Party
End of Semester Celebration: Fried Chicken Party
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve successfully wrapped up the semester with our delightful End of Semester Celebration, affectionately known as the Fried Chicken Party. We received an overwhelming response with more than 70 registrations, bringing together master’s students, Ph.D. students, and alumni in a joyful reunion to celebrate the conclusion of the academic term.
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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
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
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
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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Winter 2023 End of Semester Celebration
Event: 2023 Winter End of Semester Celebration
Date and Time: Thursday, April 13th, 2023, 5:00 pm (the last of the food should arrive by 5:30pm)
Location: 7th Floor Lounge, Health Science Building
RSVP Form : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMb1OkqF-cWxRT7eWcPLIv2EJG_mIzn1y6Gr254k12RPc6Q/viewform
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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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November 2022 Potluck Social
Date and Time: Thursday, November 24, 2022, 4:30am-7:30noon EST
Location: 155 College Street, Health Science Building, Room 700
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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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Lunar New Year & Valentine’s Social
Event: Lunar New Year & Valentine’s Social
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm (EDT)
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88358798750
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Inaugural Bugs Minigame Thursday
Hosted by: Larry Dong
Time: Thursday, 8pm-10pm (EDT)
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88358798750
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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)
Registration：https://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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