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.
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News
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Former Postdoc Himel Mallick is Awarded the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award
Congratulations to Himel Mallick, who was awarded the 2022 Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) in the Professional Practice category.The prestigious award…
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Ben Guebila Marouen Receives the “Cloud Credit for Research Program” Award from Amazon Web Services
Congratulations to Research Associate Ben Guebila Marouen for receiving the “Cloud Credit for Research Program” award from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support the maintenance of open-source web tools developed…
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Shuting Shen Receives 2023 SLDS Student Paper Competition Award
Congratulations to Shuting Shen, a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Xihong Lin, who received the 2023 ASA Statistical Learning and Data Sciences (SLDS) Section Student Paper Award for…
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Relaunch of Colloquium Series w. Tamara Broderick – 1/26
The Department is excited to announce that we are relaunching the Colloquium Seminar Series with a whole new group of distinguished speakers this Spring!Our first Colloquium will be:Thursday, January 26th4:00-5:00pmKresge…
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Jeff Miller Promoted to Associate Professor
We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Jeff Miller has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biostatistics! The goal of Dr. Miller’s research is to develop statistical methods to…
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PhD Student Jemar Bather Publishes 3rd Paper in Series Related to Increasing Diversity in the Public Health Research Workforce
Congratulations to doctoral student Jemar Bather on publishing his paper, “Racial and Ethnic Composition of Students, Graduates, and Faculty in Environmental Health Sciences, 2011 to 2021”, which was an invited…
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Postdoc Tian Gu Awarded ASA Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Tian Gu who was awarded the 2023 Young Investigator Award by ASA Statistics in Epidemiology Section! Dr. Gu has been recognized for Robust angle-based…
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DF/HCC Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer Research – 2/10
DF/HCC Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer ResearchThis symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas of…
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Harvard Catalyst Spring Events Lineup
February 8, 1-2pm Journal Club Hui Zheng, MGH Machine Learning Approaches to Visualize Disease-Related Biomarkers February 13, 9am-1pm Short Course Laura Hatfield, HMS Advances in Difference-in-Differences Methods March 8, 1-2pm…
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Interview with Xihong Lin on Women in STEM
Late last year, the Statistics Department interviewed Professor Xihong Lin as part of a series celebrating women in statistics and data science. Dr Lin’s research focuses on developing and applying…
