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  • When More isn’t Better: A Lesson from Rethinking Scale in Single-cell Foundation Models

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

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday October 8th at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB 301 Lorin Crawford, PhD, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Co-Lead Project Ex Vivo https://hsph.harvard.edu/department/biostatistics/seminars-events/colloquium-seminar-series/   The success of transformer-based foundation models on natural language and images has motivated their use in single-cell transcriptomics. In this talk, […]

  • The Experiment Inside the Model: Exact Weighting Representations for Spatial, Panel, and Meta-Analytic Studies

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

    2026 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship Award Dr. José Zubizarreta, Daniel C. Tosteson Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health HSPH, Kresge G3 Dr. Zubizarreta will deliver an in-person lecture on Thursday, September 24 at 4:00 p.m. in Kresge G3, followed […]

  • Causal Inference with Video Features as Treatments

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    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday September 17th at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB 301 Kosuke Imai, PhD, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Government & Statistics, Department of Government & Department of Statistics, Harvard University https://hsph.harvard.edu/department/biostatistics/seminars-events/colloquium-seminar-series/

  • Reproducible Research – Tools and a case study with NHANES

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

    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

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    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 […]

  • Fréchet Regression of Random Objects on Vector Covariates and Its Applications for Single Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis

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

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday, April 3, 2025 4:00pm Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 Hongzhe Li, PhD Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics Director, Center for Statistics in Big Data Vice Chair for Research Integration, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Population-level single-cell RNA-seq […]

  • Data Integration in Spatial and Single Cell Omics: What is Erased, and Can you Recover it?

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    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday, March 27, 2025 4:00pm Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 Nancy Zhang, PhD Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Vice Dean of Wharton Doctoral Programs,  The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania In single-cell and spatial biology, data integration refers […]

  • Dissecting Tumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity from Single-cell RNA-seq Data by Generalized Binary Covariance Decomposition

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    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Tuesday March 11th at 4:00pm HSPH FXB G12 Yusha Liu, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Profiling tumors with single-cell RNA sequencing has the potential to identify recurrent patterns of transcription variation related to cancer progression, and to produce […]

  • Decoding Aging at Spatial and Single-cell Resolution with Machine Learning

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    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Monday March 10th at 4:00pm HSPH Kresge G2 Eric Sun PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics Stanford University Aging is a highly complex process and the greatest risk factor for many chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Recent spatial and single-cell omics technologies have […]

  • How Do Neural Networks Learn Features From Data?

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    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Monday March 3rd at 4:00pm HSPH Kresge G2 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Abstract: Understanding how neural networks learn features, or relevant patterns in data, is key to accelerating scientific discovery. […]