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Oct 2026I joined the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery as core faculty.
Sep 2026Daniel Cho started the PhD program in Biostatistics and Lin Tang the MS program in Biostatistics.
Sep 2026Abhi Jain’s paper on modeling bounded well-being indices with Bayesian beta regression was accepted in Spatial Statistics.
Sep 2026A new NIH/NIA R01, DS-TO-THE-MAX, will follow the health of people with Down syndrome using Medicaid data. I am a co-investigator (PI Eric Rubenstein).
Sep 2026Two new R packages, clocknet for networks from digital clock drawings and BayesBadger for spatio-temporal beta regression.
Sep 2026I joined the editorial board of Scientific Reports.
Sep 2026I spoke at the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery seminar on new ways to represent digital clock drawings for predicting cognitive impairment.
Aug 2026At the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, I presented GASP, a method for detecting and locating spatial patterns in gene expression.
Jul 2026I spoke at the International Biometric Conference in Seoul, where I also organized an invited session. I also gave a talk in the statistics seminar at Kyungpook National University.
Jul 2026A synthesis of U.S. community well-being indices in Population Health Metrics, with Kimberly Dukes and colleagues.
Jun 2026I spoke on modeling bounded well-being indices at the ICSA China Conference in Shenzhen.
Apr 2026I gave the statistics seminar at University of Massachusetts Amherst on borrowing structural information in Bayesian hierarchical models.
Mar 2026Abhi Jain received the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award.
Mar 2026With Anne Shapiro and Laura White, a paper in Epidemiology on adapting back-calculation methods to estimate tuberculosis incidence.
Spring 2026Lin Tang joined the group as a research associate, jointly with Huimin Cheng.
Feb 2026Garrett Frady’s paper on Bayesian feature extraction for spatio-temporal data was accepted in Statistics and Applications (arXiv).
Jan 2026My NIA R03 on network biomarkers from digital clock drawings began. It scored in the 2nd percentile.
Sep 2025An NHGRI R01 with Ruben Dries on scalable methods for subcellular spatial omics began. I am the Boston University site PI, and it scored in the 1st percentile.