Symposium 2024

The Big Data Summer Institute's Concluding Symposium and Workshop serves as a CAPSTONE event for the  program. The Symposium is open to the public.  

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED
2024 Featured Speakers
Sarah Lotspeich, PhD Irina Gaynanova, PhD Kelly Bakulski, PhD

Sarah C. Lotspeich, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
Wake Forest University

 Irina Gaynanova, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan

Kelly Bakulski, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan

Preliminary Program
Thursday, July 25, 2024

School of Public Health I
Rooms 1680 and 1690
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

TIME
EVENT

9:00 AM
1690 SPH I

Arrival
9:20 AM
1690 SPH I

Welcome
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics
Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Professor of Global Public Health
Associate Director for Quantitative Data Sciences
Assistant Vice President for Research-Research Data Services Strategy
Director, Big Data Summer Institute
University of Michigan
9:30 AM
1690 SPH I		 Keynote Lecture - Connecting Healthy Food Proximity and Disease: Straight-Line vs. Map-Based Distances
Sarah Lotspeich, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
Wake Forest University
10:30 AM
1680 SPH I		 Break
10:45 AM
1690 SPH I

Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - Overview and Opportunities
Irina Gaynanova, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
11:30 AM
1690 SPH I

Metals Exposure and Dementia: From Population Research to Molecular Mechanisms
Kelly Bakulski, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Michigan
12:15 PM
1680 SPH I & Courtyard

Lunch
1:15 PM
1627 SPH I

Poster Session

  • Cancer Data Science
  • Data Mining & Machine Learning in Healthcare Data
  • Genomics
2:45 PM
1690 SPH I

2024 BDSI Participant Presentations

  • Genomics
  • Cancer Data Science
4:15 PM
1680 SPH I

Break
4:30 PM
1690 SPH I

2024 BDSI Participant Presentations

  • Data Mining & Machine Learning in Healthcare Data
5:15 PM
1680 SPH I

Dinner (by invitation only)

Friday, July 26, 2024
Professional Development Day for BDSI Students

School of Public Health I
Rooms 1680 and 1690
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

TIME
EVENT
8:30 AM
1690 SPH I		 Arrival
9:00 AM
1690 SPH I		 Breakfast Q&A with Dr. Sarah Lotspeich
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences
Wake Forest University
10:00 AM
1690 SPH I		 GitHub Session with Jacob Gladfelter
Unix Systems Administrator, Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
11:00 AM
1690 SPH I		 LinkedIn Profiles and Networking Session with Dr. Krithika Suresh
Assistant Director, Big Data Summer Institute
Research Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
11:30 AM
1690 SPH I

Biostatistics Department Admissions Panel

Mousumi Banerjee, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics MS Admissions Committee
University of Michigan

Kelley Kidwell, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Biostatistics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics PhD Admissions Committee
University of Michigan

Neo Kok
Incoming Biostatistics HDS MS Student
2023 BDSI Alumni

Elise Miller
Current Biostatistics PhD Student
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics
12:30 PM
1680 SPH I		 Lunch
1:15 PM
1690 SPH I

Statistics Department Admissions Panel

Kerby Shedden, PhD
Professor of Statistics
Director of CSCAR
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Director of the PhD Program, Department of Statistics
University of Michigan

Stilian A. Stoev, PhD
Professor of Statistics
Associate Director of the PhD Program, Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
2:15 PM
1690 SPH I		 Program Evaluations
2:45 PM
1690 SPH I

Concluding Ceremony & Journey Lecture
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics
Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Professor of Global Public Health
Associate Director for Quantitative Data Sciences
Assistant Vice President for Research-Research Data Services Strategy
University of Michigan


Questions? Contact Sabrina Olsson at [email protected].




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