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Current Biostatistics Seminars
Monday Seminar Series
Join us for our weekly seminars led by biostatistics experts, covering a wide-range of topics.
All Biostatistics seminars are held at 12:05 p.m., via Zoom (registration required) and onsite (see events pages for Room numbers).
Click the title to register via the events page. For questions, email Biostat Events.
| DATE | TITLE (CLICK TITLE TO REGISTER) | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 9/8/25 | Robust Decision Making Without Compromising Learning Efficiency | Laixi Shi is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Data Science and AI Institute. Her research focuses on robust and data-efficient reinforcement learning, situated at the intersection of data science, optimization, and statistics. |
| 9/15/25 | Modeling the geometry of spatial gene expression | Uthsav Chitra is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and faculty in the Data Science and AI Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. His research broadly develops statistical/machine learning methods for analyzing high-dimensional and multi-modal biological data. |
| 9/22/25 | Efficient Evaluation and Monitoring of Machine Learning Systems | Michael Oberst is an assistant professor of computer science, a member of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. Oberst’s research focuses on reliable machine learning for decision-making in health care. |
| 9/29/25 | Comparative Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis Identifies Evidence of Off-Target Probe Binding | Jean Fan is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Center for Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research team, the JEFworks lab, is interested in understanding the molecular and spatial-contextual factors shaping cellular identity and heterogeneity. |
| 10/6/25 | Principled AI | Yong Chen is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (DBEI), and a senior scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. |
| 11/3/25 | Exploring Careers and Research Opportunities in Biostatistics through the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section | Erik Bloomquist is a Senior Principal Scientist at Merck. Lingli Yang is a Statistics Manager at Takeda. Jingjing Ye is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the executive director and global head of Product Management and Data Insights at BeOne Medicines. Chenguang Wang is the Head of Statistical Innovation at Regeneron and previously was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a Mathematical Statistician at CDRH, FDA. |
| 11/10/25 | The Brave New World of Real-World Data: Design and Methods for Trustworthy Evidence | Rebecca A. Hubbard is the Carl Kawaja and Wendy Holcombe Professor of Public Health and Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science at Brown University. Hubbard’s research focuses on the development and application of methods to improve analyses using real world data sources including electronic health records (EHR) and medical claims data. |
| 11/17/25 | MHS Showcase (in person only) | |
| 12/8/25 | TBA | Jason Ji is the Co-Director of Statistical & Computational Immunology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine. |
| 2/2/26 | TBA | Kristina Gligoric is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at Stanford University. |
| 2/9/26 | TBA | José Zubizarreta is Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on the development of statistical methods for causal inference to advance health care and public policy research. |
| 2/23/26 | TBA | TBA |
| 3/2/26 | PHD Showcase (in person only) | |
| 3/9/26 | TBA | TBA |
| 3/30/26 | TBA | Tiziano Piccardi is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science at Stanford University |
| 4/6/26 | TBA | Luana Ruiz is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. |
| 4/13/26 | TBA | TBA |
| 4/20/26 | TBA | TBA |
| 4/27/26 | TBA | TBA |
| 5/4/26 | Masters Showcase (in person only) |
Past Seminars
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