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Speakers
Hongtu Zhu, Department of Biostatistics at University of North Carolina & Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
(2nd Speaker coming soon!)
Moderator
Dr. Yize Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, YSPH, Yale University
About the Speakers
Dr. Hongtu Zhu is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics. He has a broad background in statistics, biostatistics, medical imaging, genetics and computational neuroscience, with specific training and expertise in neuroimaging data analysis and big data integration as well as secondary data analysis on neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, he developed various new statistical methods for analyzing genetic, behavioral and clinical data from cross-sectional, longitudinal and family studies, and solved associated statistical issues (e.g., estimation, hypothesis testing). As a faculty member at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, he expanded his research to develop new statistical methods for the analysis of medical imaging data including magnetic resonance images (MRI), DTI, EEG/MEG, Ultra Sound, fMRI and PET.
About the Moderator
Dr. Yize Zhao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. She is also affiliated with Yale Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Yale Wu Tsai Institute, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, and Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Her main research focuses on the development of statistical and AI methods to analyze large-scale complex data (medical imaging, -omics, EHRs), Bayesian methods, feature selection, predictive modeling, data integration, missing data and network analysis. She has strong interests in biomedical research areas including mental health, psychiatry, neurodegenerative diseases, and aging. Her most recent research agenda includes analytical method development and cutting-edge scientific applications on brain-to-behavior modeling, multi-layer biomedical networks, imaging genetics and genomics, and the integration of multi-modal biomedical data with real-world data (EHRs, video, audio, etc.). Her research is supported by multiple NIH grants. Dr. Zhao is the recipient of the prestige Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the COPSS Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). She is currently a standing member of the NIH Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section. See Profile
About the COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series
COPSS (Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies) and NISS have come together to organize and host a new webinar series focusing on leadership in statistics and data science. Plan to attend these webinars every month during the academic year! Visit the COPSS-NISS Leadership Series Page for previous webinars.
The COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in Statistics and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The purpose of the webinar series is to promote leadership skills for members of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series features conversations with leaders throughout the discipline, including leaders from major academic and government institutions, and companies. Invited speakers share their leadership stories and answer questions about their experiences. Each webinar is moderated by a member of the COPSS Emerging Leaders in Statistics program.
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