Friday, April 26, 2024

Introduction to Advanced Statistical Methods

12:00 PM

5515 BSRB
Meeting ID: 910 4550 7427
Passcode: research

This T32/Neurology/Neuroscience Research Seminar features Jian Kang, Ph.D., M.S., Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, and is hosted by the Department of Neurology.

Jian Kang, Ph.D., M.S.

Professor, Biostatistics
University of Michigan

Dr. Kang's primary research interests are in developing statistical methods for large-scale complex biomedical data with application in precision medicine, imaging, epidemiology and genetics.

His research interests include Imaging data analysis, Bayesian methods, efficient statistical computation algorithms, ultrahigh-dimensional feature selection, latent source separation methods, graphical models, network inference, composite likelihood approach, and missing data problems.

Highlighted Research Projects:

  • New statistical learning methods for brain-computer interfaces
  • Scalable Bayesian methods for big imaging data analysis
  • Statistical ICA Methods for Analysis and Integration of Multi-dimensional Data
  • Bayesian network biomarker selection in metabolomics data