Latest Past Events

Call for Abstracts: DF/HCC Early Career Investigators Symposium

2025 Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators November 4, 2025 from 1:00-5:30PM In-Person at Dana Farber Cancer Institute Yawkey Conference Center Do you work in population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity, cancer care delivery research, and early detection? We invite students, postdocs, residents, and clinical fellows to submit abstracts for consideration as […]

Reproducible Research – Tools and a case study with NHANES

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 18, 2025 4:00 PM HSPH FXB-301 Robert Gentleman, PhD Principal Research Scientist Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute I will discuss how new technologies and statistical methodologies can help enhance our ability to perform reproducible research. I will demonstrate how these […]

Preference Inference for Language Models Debiased by Fisher Random Walk Models

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 11 at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB-301 Junwei Lu, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Human preference alignment has been shown to be effective in training the large language models (LMs). It allows the LLM to […]