Department of Biostatistics
The Department of Biostatistics tackles pressing public health challenges by conducting cutting-edge research and translation and by offering top-quality education and training.
655 Huntington Avenue Building 2, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Colloquium Seminar Series
The HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Seminar Series, co-sponsored by our sister department at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is our flagship event that brings together faculty, students, postdocs, and researchers across both departments nearly every week. This seminar series brings in top academics working in the field to present important research and exchange new ideas.
All seminars are held at 4pm on Thursday afternoons in Room FXB-301.
Upcoming Colloquium
- October 29th – TBD
- November 5th – TBD
2026 Fall Colloquium Schedule
- September 10th – Luca Pinello
- September 17th- Kosuke Imai
- October 1st – Zhi Yu
- October 8th- Lorin Crawford
- October 29th- TBD
- November 5th- TBD
- November 12th- TBD
- November 19th- TBD
Archives
FALL 2026
September 10th – Luca Pinello
” Learning the Regulatory Genome by Destruction and Creation”
September 17th- Kosuke Imai
October 1st – Zhi Yu
October 8th- Lorin Crawford
SPRING 2026
Parker Knight
February 5th | FXB-301
“Data Integration and Time-informed Methods for the Electronic Health Record”
Keith Barnatchez
February 12th| FXB-301
“Efficient Estimation of Causal Effects Under Two-Phase Sampling with Error-Prone Outcome and Treatment Measurements”
Nathan Cheng
February 19th| FXB-301
“Chiseling: Powerful and Valid Subgroup Selection via Interactive Machine Learning”
Phillip Nicol
February 26th | FXB-301
“Spectral methods for spatial and multi-omics data“
Tracy Ke
March 5th | FXB-301
” Integrating Pre-Trained Language Models into Topic Modeling”
Ben Raphael
March 12th| FXB-301
“Inference of tissue architecture across space, time, and modality”
March 26th – Linda Harrison
“An Example to Illustrate Randomized Trial Estimands and Estimators”
April 2nd – Alex Luedtke
“DoubleGen: Debiased Generative Modeling of Counterfactuals”
April 9th- Tyler VanderWeele
“Factor Analysis and Questions of Causation“
April 16th – Zhijin Wu
“When Large p is a Blessing”
April 23rd- Maria Glamour
“Evidence Triangulation in Dementia Research”
April 30th – Roger Peng
“Building Data Analysis Proofs”