Challenges of Producing High-Quality Labelled Data

Tuesday, August 13 @ 1:00PM Eastern Time Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston Peter Lipman Technical Lead & Manager Data Science & Human Computation, Google Zoom: https://bit.ly/plipman

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Hierarchical Causal Models

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 12, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 301 David Blei, PhD Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Columbia University Analyzing nested data with hierarchical models is a staple of Bayesian statistics, but causal modeling remains largely focused on "flat" models. In this talk, we will […]

Inference for Treatment-Specific Survival Curves using Machine Learning

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 19, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 313 Ted Westling, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst In the absence of data from a randomized trial, researchers often aim to use observational data to draw causal inference about the effect of a treatment […]

Call for abstracts: DF/HCC Celebration of Early Career Investigators

The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center will be holding its annual Celebration of Early Career Investigators on December 3rd, 2024 from 1:00 - 5:00 PM in-person at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We encourage students, postdocs, residents, clinical fellows, and instructors to submit abstracts for consideration as a short talk or as part of the PATHFINDER sponsored poster presentation by October 11th. To […]

Empirical Bayes Matrix Factorization, and Genomic Applications

Data Science Seminar Friday, October 18, 3:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th Floor Matthew Stephens, PhD Chair, Department of Statistics; Ralph W. Gerard Professor of Statistics, Human Genetics, University of Chicago

Harnessing Bioinformatics for Cancer Research at DFCI

Compbio Connections November 6, 12:00 -1:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, Zelen Commons Michael Tolstorukov Director, Bioinformatics and Molecular Data, Informatics and Analytics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lunch is provided.

Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program Informational Session

The Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is thrilled to announce our second annual Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program. We invite recent Ph.D. graduates and doctoral candidates who are nearing graduation and have a passion for applied statistics, machine learning, or computational biology to consider this exciting opportunity. This is an incredible opportunity to advance your career in […]

Ligand Receptor Analysis in a Spatial Context

The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core in partnership with The Cancer Data Sciences Program at DF/HCC are very excited to present the Fall seminar series: Novel Applications in Single Cell Omics Ligand receptor analysis in a spatial context November 7th Sizun Jiang, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Martin Hemberg, PhD and Jingyi […]

Trajectory Inference in Single Cell Data

The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core in partnership with The Cancer Data Sciences Program at DF/HCC are very excited to present the Fall seminar series: Novel Applications in Single Cell Omics Ligand receptor analysis in a spatial context November 7th Sizun Jiang, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Martin Hemberg, PhD and Jingyi […]