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Congratulations to our December 2024 graduate
Dec. 12, 2024—We are thrilled to celebrate the graduation of Tianyi Sun, whose distinguished career as a doctoral student at Vanderbilt officially comes to a close this Saturday, December 14. Her dissertation, Addressing Statistical Challenges in Implementing Real-World Evidence-Based Risk Prediction Models into EHR Systems, was supervised by adviser Dandan Liu and will be available to read...
Kaidi Kang is first author of Nature paper
Nov. 27, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Kaidi Kang on the publication of “Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies” in Nature. Associate professor Simon Vandekar is senior corresponding author. Co-authors include PhD candidates Jiangmei Ruby Xiong and Megan Taylor Jones, associate professor Ran Tao, and professor Jonathan Schildcrout, plus colleagues at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the...
Tianyi Sun dissertation defense – October 31
Oct. 17, 2024—PhD candidate Tianyi Sun is defending her dissertation on Thursday, October 31, at 9 a.m. Central Time. Her advisor is Dandan Liu. All are invited and encouraged to attend. The defense will be conducted in Suite 1020, Room 10105 (10th floor conference room) at 2525 West End Avenue. It will also be streamed on Zoom;...
Tianyi Sun is first author of Statistics in Medicine paper
Oct. 2, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Tianyi Sun on the publication of “Addressing the implementation challenge of risk prediction model due to missing risk factors: The submodel approximation approach,” which was published online ahead of print in Statistics in Medicine on September 12. Associate professor Dandan Liu is corresponding author, with Allison McCoy (associate professor of biomedical informatics)...
2024 Graduate Program Awards
Sep. 24, 2024—On Wednesday, September 18, 2024, these students and faculty members were recognized at an all-department meeting for their achievements: Megan Jones was named Distinguished Teaching Assistant, in recognition of excellence in teaching and dedication to peer education. Kaidi Kang was presented with the W. S. Gosset Award for Exceptional Research, in recognition of exemplary...
Our new PhD students – Fall 2024
Sep. 18, 2024—We are delighted to welcome five new students to our doctoral program this fall. Kun Bai is a new student in our PhD program, but he is not new to our department, having worked as a staff biostatistician since 2022. Bai earned his MS in biostatistics at the University of Michigan with a health data...
October 3: Optimize Your Application to Our Program
Sep. 12, 2024—ETA 10/7/2025: View a recording of the session. Interested in earning a master’s or doctoral degree in biostatistics? Join us on Thursday, October 3, at 6 p.m. Central Time for our virtual info session on submitting your application to Vanderbilt University. Hear from Simon Vandekar, director of graduate recruitment, about what admissions committee members look...
GammaGateR featured in NCI CBIIT News
Sep. 11, 2024—On September 4, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) featured the statistical software package GammaGateR on the News page for its Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, with the headline “GammaGateR Helps Decipher Imaging Data.” See our June 9 post for details about the paper announcing GammaGateR in Bioinformatics, with PhD candidate Jiangmei Ruby Xiong as...
Our new MS students – Fall 2024
Sep. 8, 2024—We are delighted to welcome seven new students to our master’s degree program this fall. Camila Carmona earned associate degrees in mathematics, economics, and philosophy at Santa Rosa Junior College, followed by bachelor’s degrees in statistics and philosophy at Sonoma State University. Carmona’s first biostatistics project was about the impact of remote instruction on...
Siwei Zhang is first author of JAMIA paper
Aug. 13, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Siwei Zhang, alumnus Nicholas Strayer (PhD 2020; now at Posit), senior biostatistician Yajing Li, and assistant professor Yaomin Xu on the publication of “PheMIME: an interactive web app and knowledge base for phenome-wide, multi-institutional multimorbidity analysis” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on August 10. As stated in the...