Presentations

Copula-based Semiparametric Transformation Model for Bivariate Interval-censored Data

• Presentation at ENAR 2019, Philadelphia, PA
• Presentation at 2019 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Raleigh, NC
• Poster (early version) at JSM 2017, Baltimore, MD
• Poster (study motivation) at ENAR 2017, Washington, DC

GWAS-based Machine Learning Prediction for Survival Progression

• Poster at JSM 2019, Denver, CO
• Poster at LiDS 2019 conference, Pittsburgh, PA
• Poster at 2019 ASA Pittsburgh Chapter Spring Banquet, Pittsburgh, PA

Integration of the big NHANES data (1999-2016) with statistical testing identifies novel risk factors associated with asthma

• Invited talk in the Fellow Meeting at Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Presentation at the Statistical Genetics and Computational Genomics Lab, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Transcriptomic Responses to Ivacaftor and Prediction of Ivacaftor Clinical Responsiveness

• Poster at 2017 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC), Indianapolis, IN
• Poster at 2019 Cystic Fibrosis Research Center (CFRC) External Advisory Committee Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA

Journal clubs slides or self-study notes

• Introduction to Statistical Learning: overview, tree, classification, R package caret
• Computer Age Statistical Inference: GLM, regularization, trees regression, survival, EM, jackknife, bootstrap, CV, Bayesian inference, MCMC, high-dimensional testing
• Survival prediction: overview
• Single-cell RNA sequencing: introduction, tutorial
• Microbiome: Li2015, Li2016
• Subgroup analysis: Berger2014
• Bayesian: sampling
• Casual inference: propensity score
• The American Statistician special issue “A World Beyond p < 0.05: p-value history