Students and alumni at JSM 2024
The annual Joint Statistical Meetings draw more than five thousand attendees from over fifty countries every year. The 2024 edition of this conference is taking place in Portland, Oregon, with more than two dozen department members and alumni making the trip to Rose City to discuss “Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation,” catch up with colleagues from around the world, and network with prospective employers and collaborators, as well as taking part in other activities offered by conference organizers, sponsors, and participants.
PhD candidates Jiangmei Ruby Xiong and Maximilian Rohde presenting their work at the August 4 data expo. Photo by Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021).
A detailed list of department members and alumni on the program can be viewed at the Vanderbilt Biostatistics blog. Here are some of the highlights involving current students:
- Semiparametric confidence sets for arbitrary effect sizes in longitudinal neuroimaging – Xinyu Zhang, first and presenting author
- Life before and after COVID-19: Changes in relationships, technology use, and well-being – Jiangmei Ruby Xiong, first author
- Increasing statistical efficiency using ordinal transition models: A simulation study – Maximilian Rohde, first and presenting author
- Facilitating valid statistical inference in biomedical image synthesis – Jiangmei Ruby Xiong, first and presenting author
- Accounting for unobserved confounding to reduce false discoveries in microbiome research – Chih-Ting Teresa Yang, first and presenting author
- PheMIME & Phe-OmicsMIME: Interactive visualizations for phenome, multi-omics multimorbidity analysis – Siwei Zhang, first and presenting author
- Crafting relevant research: Informative and translational statistics for public policy – Tianyi Sun, organizer
- Predicting risk for a new patient with missing risk factor: A submodel approach for binary outcome – Tianyi Sun, first and presenting author
We congratulate everyone on these accomplishments, and we’re looking forward to JSM 2025 in Nashville!