ASA2022

Keynote: Julia O'Neill, Distinguished Fellow, CMC Modeling & Statistics Lead at Moderna (Chair: Dr. Ann Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center)                                              Title: The Impact of Statistics on Vaccine Development: Moderna Lessons Learned

9:15-10:15

Break

10:15-10:30

Invited Session on Statistical Methods for Big Data Analysis (Chair: Dr. Kandethody Ramachandran, USF)

• Jonathan R. Bradley - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University        Title: Bypassing Markov Chains for Bayesian Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models

• Kshitij Khare - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida                                      Title: Bayesian inference in high-dimensional mixed frequency regression

• Jiwoong Kim - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Florida                                          Title: Simultaneous Predictions of Both eQTLs and Chromatin Interactions Through Using a Bayesian Approach

10:30-12:00

Lunch Break

12:00-1:15

Invited Session on Statistical Methods for Medical Studies (Chair: Dr. Julia Soulakova, UCF)

• Rhonda Bacher, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida                      Title: Using R/Shiny for visualizations of DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy in single-molecule and single-cell data
• Rickey E. Carter, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo clinic                                            Title: Building a team during a pandemic: lessons learned from the United States Convalescent Plasma Expanded Access program
• Xiaoqing Yu, Assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer center  Title: Automatic single cell type identification using wide and deep learning

 1:15-2:45

Break

2:45-3:00

Contributed Session A (Chair: Efrain Gonzalez, USF)

• Yuexuan Wu, Florida State University  Title: LESA: Longitudinal Elastic Shape Analysis of Brain Subcortical Structures

• Nam Nguyen, Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida                    Title: Translational Quantum Machine Intelligence for Modeling Tumor Dynamics in Oncology

• Yaxuan Wang, University of Central Florida                                                    Title: Clustering of Diverse Multiplex Networks

• Kun Bu, Department of Statistics, University of South Florida                  Title: Lie detection using machine learning algorithms, OpenCV and Dlib in Python

• Jiaheng Li, Florida State University      Title: Learning cross-layer dependence structure in multilayer networks

Contributed Session B (Chair: Damola Akinlana, USF)

• Meilin Jiang, University of Florida        Title: Causal Mediation Analysis for Zero-inflated Mixture Mediators in Count Data

• Yijia Ma, Department of Statistics, Florida State University                        Title: A stochastic process model for time warping functions

• Xiulin Xie, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida                              Title: Control Charts for Dynamic Process Monitoring with An Application to Air Pollution Surveillance

• Ihsan E. Buker, Department of Biology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of West Florida Title: Comparison of Missing Data Mechanism Determination Methods:  A Monte Carlo Simulation Study

• Xinyu Zhou, Department of Statistics, Florida State University                        Title: Statistical Depth for Point Process via the Isometric Log-Ratio Transformation

• Hasibul Hasan, University of Florida Title: Bayesian Inference for Continuous-Time Transmission Processes of Infectious Diseases in Close Contact Groups

3:00-4:45

Student Award Committee Meeting

Networking

Keynote: Ying Yuan, Bettyann Asche Murray Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Chair: Dr. Jongphil Kim, Moffitt Cancer Center)        Title: Model-Assisted Designs: A Novel Paradigm to Improve and Accelerate Drug Development

9:15-10:15

Contributed session C (Chair: Dr. Jiwoong Kim, USF)

• Julia Soulakova, Biostatistician and Professor of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida Title: Teaching Online Biostatistics Courses During the Pandemic

• Olga Savchuk, USF                          Title: Nonparametric estimation of SiC film residual stress from the wafer surface profile

• Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Central Florida                                        Title: Regularized Low-Rank Matrix Regression

• Michiko Wolcott, Principal Consultant, Msight Analytics                                      Title: Framework and Best Practices in Statistical Project Management and Delivery