SDS Seminar Series – Dr. Dave Zhao
Dec
1
2023
Dec
1
2023
Description
The Fall 2023 SDS Seminar Series continues on December 1st from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. with Dr. Dave Zhao (Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). This event is in-person.
Title: High-Dimensional Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Problems in Genomics
Abstract: Many problems in genomic biology require simultaneous estimation and/or inference for a large number of genomic features. These problems are amenable to empirical Bayes approaches, which share information across the features. Nonparametric empirical Bayes methods are especially useful because they can automatically identify the optimal way to share that information in a given dataset. However, when the parameters of interest are of moderate or high dimension, nonparametric methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality and become extremely inaccurate. There are few practical solutions. This talk will introduce some motivating genomics problems, from the fields of metabolomics and spatial transcriptomics, and will then explore new strategies for overcoming dimensionality.
Location
Peter O’Donnell Jr. Building (POB) 2.302
Share
Other Events in This Series
Sep
12
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Lydia Lucchesi, University of Texas at Austin
Visual Documentation for Data Preprocessing in R and Python
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Lydia Lucchesi
Sep
19
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Tuan Pham, University of Texas at Austin
Time-uniform Bounds for Iterated Algorithms
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Tuan Pham
Sep
26
2025
SDS Seminar Series - Ryan Giordano, University of California, Berkeley
Local Weighting--Based Diagnostics for Bayesian Multilevel Regression with Poststratification
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Ryan Giordano
Oct
3
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Rafael Campello de Alcantara, University of Texas at Austin
Searching for Parallel Trends: A Decision Tree Algorithm for Discovering Conditional Diff-in-Diff Estimators
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Rafael Campello de Alcantara
Oct
10
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Michele Guindani, University of California, Los Angeles
TBA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Michele Guindani
Oct
17
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Wenyi Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center
TBA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Wenyi Wang
Oct
31
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Max Goplerud, University of Texas at Austin
TBA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Max Goplerud
Nov
7
2025
SDS Seminar Series – Jeffrey Miller, Harvard University
TBA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person
Speaker(s): Jeffrey Miller
