The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science is hosting a free virtual conference this week, from 7:00 pm Central Time (00:00 UTC) on Monday, October 13, to 7:00 pm Central Time on October 14, in observance of International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science. The theme is “Thriving in Your Environment.” The conference maintains a YouTube archive of presentations.
Presentations by individuals affiliated with or connected to Vanderbilt Biostatistics include the following:
Hannah Klinger, PhD student, is chairing “Rising Stars: Celebrating Student-Driven Research” (invited session).
Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021, and alumni representative on the Graduate Program Strategic Visions Committee) is on the conference organizing committee and involved with multiple events:
- organizer/chair, “Statistical Innovations for Error-Prone Data” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Pop Stats: Where Fandom Meets Functions” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Prompting Progress: Integrating LLMs into Statistical Research” (invited session). The session will include a talk by Dr. Lotspeich titled “Applying LLMs to Support Data Validation and Augmentation in EHR Research.”
- organizer/chair, “Methods with Meaning: Celebrating the ‘Why’ Behind Statistical Innovation” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Advances in Bayesian and Spatial Methods for Environmental and Public Health Research” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Statistical Methods for the Validation of Surrogate Markers in Clinical Trials” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Data at Full Tilt: Accelerating Discovery with Wearables and Smartphones” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Innovative Statistical Approaches to Mitigate Data Challenges in Women’s and Maternal Health” (invited session)
- organizer/chair, “Statistical Methods for Impactful Research on Health and the Food Environment” (invited session)
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (PhD 2018) is delivering three invited talks:
- “The Art of Data Refinement: Severance Analyses,” in “Pop Stats: Where Fandom Meets Functions”
- “Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Generating Saturated DAGs [Directed Acyclic Graphs] for Causal Inference,” in “Prompting Progress: Integrating LLMs into Statistical Research”
- “The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation,” in “Methods with Meaning: Celebrating the ‘Why’ Behind Statistical Innovation“
Ashley Mullan, PhD student, is delivering two invited talks:
- “Talking Over a Football Game: The Taylor Swift Effect on Football Podcast Popularity,” in “Pop Stats: Where Fandom Meets Functions”
- “Modeling Misclassification: Exploring the Relationship between Diabetes and Access to Healthy Foods,” in “Statistical Methods for Impactful Research on Health and the Food Environment”
Ms. Mullan is also the organizer of two invited sessions: “Quantitative Approaches to Safeguarding Child Welfare” and “Rising Stars: Celebrating Student-Driven Research.”
Jacquelyn Neal (PhD 2024) is presenting “The Accidental Product Manager: How my PhD in Biostatistics led me to a thriving career in healthcare technology” as a speed session talk.
Rameela Raman, associate professor of biostatistics, health policy, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is delivering an invited talk, “Informing policy and implementation in the child welfare system using integrated administrative data,” in “Quantitative Approaches to Safeguarding Child Welfare.”
Keynote speakers include Dr. Amanda Golbeck, who presented “Taking Thousands of Lights and Helping Them Shine Brighter” in our department seminar series last month. Another keynote speaker, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, visited our department in Fall 2024 in her role as president of the American Statistical Association.
Visit the IDWSDS site to view the full program.