Agenda - NISS Graduate Student Network Research Conference 2024

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Day 1: Saturday, May 18, 2024 

12:00pm – 12:05pm Welcome & Opening Remarks –  David Matteson (NISS Director)  
Session 1: New Methods and Applications in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Network Analysis
Session Chair:  Manqi Cai
12:05pm – 12:25pm Chris Camp, Yale University
12:25pm – 12:45pm Wenlong Yang, Penn State University
12:45pm – 1:05pm Ke Zhang, University of Rhode Island
1:05pm – 1:25pm Anisha Das, Florida State University-
1:25pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30 pm – 2:30pm Keynote speech 1:  Miguel Hernán, Harvard University; Chaired by: Sahar Zangeneh, RTI
2:30 – 2:35pm  Break
Session 2: Recent Developments in High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, Uncertainty Quantification and Machine Learning
Session Chair: Jason Cho
2:35pm – 2:55pm Jeremy Flood, North Carolina A&T
2:55pm – 3:15pm Thomas Johnson III, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
3:15pm – 3:35pm Yikun Zhang, University of Washington
3:35pm – 3:55pm Yi Liu, North Carolina State University
3:55pm – 4:00pm 5 mins Break
4:00pm – 5:00pm Academic Career Panel, Moderated by Hannah Waddel (Emory)                
 

Day 2: Sunday, May 19, 2024

Session 3: Novel Methods in Causal Inference, Bayesian Statistics and Stochastic Process
Session Chair:  Georgia Smits
12:00pm – 12:20pm Jason Cho, Cornell University
12:20pm – 12:40pm Changzhi, Ma University of North Carolina Greensboro  
12:40pm – 1:00pm  Yueting Wang, University of Pittsburgh
1:00pm – 1:30pm 30 mins Break  
1:30pm – 2:30pm  Keynote speech 2: Razieh Nabi, Emory University; Chaired by: Samuel Wang, Cornell University  
2:30 – 2:50pm Break
2:50pm – 3:50pm Poster Session & Networking Social Jason & Manqi
  • Hannah Mechelse (Brock University), The Psychological Effects of Covid-19 Organizational Preparedness on Canadian Health Care Workers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
  • Sara Tyo (UCI), A Latent Class Model for Planned Missingness Designs with the International Affective Picture System
  • Patrick Roney (George Washinton U.), Investigating changes in rural vs urban malnutrition disparity for low- and middle-income countries with WHO HEAT
3:50pm – 4:50 pm Industry and Government Career Panel, Moderator Sean Mulherin (UCLA)
4:50pm – 5:00pm Award Announcement