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We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of three students in our program this week, with Commencement taking place on May 9. Click each individual’s name for more information at their websites. Kaidi Kang, PhD, completed a dissertation titled A unified effect size index and its application… Read More

Q: The Biostatistics Graduate Program at Vanderbilt University appears in some US News and World Report (USNWR) surveys and not others. What’s up with that? A: USNWR employs a variety of criteria and timelines for its “Best Schools” lists. Our program was last included in a survey of best doctoral programs… Read More

The ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting is taking place in New Orleans from March 23 through March 26. Here are some of the sessions our students, staff, faculty, and alumni are involved with: Sunday, March 23 8:00 pm – Posters: Clinical Trials Max Rohde (PhD 2025): Increasing Statistical Efficiency… Read More

Kaidi Kang has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt University’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction.” Kang, who successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month, has delivered ten invited… Read More

PhD candidate Maximilian Rohde will present his dissertation on Thursday, March 20, at 9 a.m. Central Time. His advisor is Frank Harrell. All are invited and encouraged to attend. The defense will be conducted on Zoom; for access, contact the department at biostatistics[at]vumc[dot]org. Maximizing statistical efficiency in clinical… Read More

PhD candidate Kaidi Kang will present his dissertation on Monday, March 10, at 1 p.m. Central Time. His advisor is Simon Vandekar. 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. Read More

Congratulations to PhD candidate Huiding “Eric” Chen on the selection of “Synthetic Sampling Weights for Volunteer-Based National Biobanks: A Case Study with the All of Us Research Program” as one of five winning papers in the 2025 Student Paper Competition sponsored by American Statistical Association’s Consortium of Sections. Read More

Congratulations to 2024 graduate Jamie Joseph, PhD, on the publication of “Analysis of longitudinal patterns of child maltreatment reports in the United States,” which was published online ahead of print on December 24; it is scheduled to appear in the February 2025 issue of Child Abuse & Neglect. Associate professor… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More