Schedule of Invited Sessions

Schedule Session Number Session ID Title Organizer Speakers Room ID Room
June 2, 8:30AM-10:00AM Parallel Session 1 NESS2025-IS-1 Statistical Methods in Phylogenetics Arindam RoyChoudhury J. Nicholas Fisk, Megan Owen, Katherine St. John, Jeffrey Townsend 1 Chapel A
June 2, 8:30AM-10:00AM Parallel Session 1 NESS2025-IS-2 Advanced Analysis Methods in Medical and Epidemiological Studies Subject to Missing Information in Study Data Ce Yang Cong Jiang, Ce Yang, Yiran Wang, Sai Ma 2 Chapel B
June 2, 8:30AM-10:00AM Parallel Session 1 NESS2025-IS-3 Advancements for Multi-omics and multi-view data integration. Ching-Ti Liu Georg Hahn, Sandra Safo,  Daifeng Wang, Yuping Zhang 3 Chapel C
June 2, 8:30AM-10:00AM Parallel Session 1 NESS2025-IS-5 Navigating oncology endpoints in clinical trials: methods, applications, study design considerations and beyond Vickie Zhang, Jianan Hui Lu Mao, Wang April, Weiyu Yao, Satrajit Roychoudhury 4 George A
June 2, 8:30AM-10:00AM Parallel Session 1 NESS2025-IS-6 Advances in Modern Statistical Inference: Causality, Complexity, and Heterogeneity Ying Zhou Siyu Heng, Wenrui Li, Ying Zhou, Elynn Chen 5 George B
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-7 Challenges and Novel Statistical Approaches in Drug Development of Rare Diseases Bo Huang Wendy B. London, Zailong Wang, Sai Dharmarajan, Denis Rybin 1 Chapel A
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-8 Statistical Innovations in Biomedical Research: PhD Student Presentations from UMass Amherst Jing Qian Benjamin Abijah, Xinyang Liu, Margaret Janiczek, Weidong Wang 2 Chapel B
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-9 Innovative Methods in Statistical Genetics Ching-Ti Liu Sanjay Shete, Xiaofeng Zhu, Nicholas Mancuso, Xihong Lin 3 Chapel C
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-10 Careers in Academia: A Panel Discussion by NESS NextGen Elizabeth Upton, Gregory Vaughan Anna Neufield, Jackson Lautier, Neil Spencer, Priya Kohli 4 George A
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-18 Advances in Modeling and Methodology for Multiple-Subject Time Series Younghoon Kim George Michailidis, Yao Zheng, Elynn Chen, Younghoon Kim 5 George B
June 2, 1:30PM-3:00PM Parallel Session 2 NESS2025-IS-4 Recent Developments in Clinical Trial Design: Enhancing Flexibility and Accelerating Studies Shan Xiao Gaurav Sharma, Yefei Zhang, Zhe Chen, Ting Wang 6 Whitney
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-13 Novel Statistical methodology development and implementation of Complex Innovative Designs for Clinical Trials Bo Huang Ying Kuen Cheng, Cunshan Wang, Shudi Li, Thomas Murray 1 Chapel A
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-14 Advancing Causal Inference and Data Science in Digital Health: Novel Methodologies and Applications Linda Valeri Charlotte Fowler, Ziping Xu, Yuan Bian, Marcos Matabuena 2 Chapel B
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-16 Recent Advancements in Basket and Platform trials: Success, Challenges, and Future Directions Satrajit Roychoudhury Wei Wei, Pranab Ghosh,  Weidong Zhang,  Cindy Lu 3 Chapel C
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-17 Innovative Statistical and Machine-learning Methods for Assessing Environmental Exposures Yeongjin Gwon Vishal Midya, Xiao Wu, Daniel Kowal 4 George A
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-11 Innovating with evidence: tackling challenges and mitigation plan in using external control trials for regulatory decisions Glen Laird Yusuke Yamaguchi, Hongwei Wang, Ran Duan, Frank Fan 5 George B
June 2, 4:30PM-6:00PM Parallel Session 3 NESS2025-IS-12 Recent advances in biomedical data science: highlights from the Yale University and Boehringer Ingelheim Biomedical Data Science Fellowship Program Hongyu Zhao Dylan Duchen, Rong Li, Huanhuan Wei, Chuanpeng Dong 6 Whitney
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-19 Emerging Methods and Topics to Harness Real-World Data (RWD) and Evidence (RWE) in Clinical Development Lei Nie Joe Ibrahim,Chenguang Wang, Ming-Hui Chen 1 Chapel A
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-20 Advanced topics in clinical trials designs:  decision making frameworks and utilization of biomarker data Qi Zhang Fan Wu; Jiangtao Gou; Yoni Sidi; Shuguang Huang 2 Chapel B
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-21 Evolving Landscape of Open-Source Software in Drug Development Satrajit Roychoudhury Keaven Anderson, Michael Kane, Eric Nantz, James Kim 3 Chapel C
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-22 Innovations in statistical analysis of longitudinal data for biomedical research Sreeram Anantharaman Jungwun Lee, Benjamin Stockton, Sreeram Anantharaman, Swathi Venkatesan (Discussant) 4 George A
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-23 Causal Mediation Analysis in Action Vindyani Herath Donna Spiegelman, Linda Valeri, Judith Lok, Vindyani Herath 5 George B
June 3, 9:40AM-11:10AM Parallel Session 4 NESS2025-IS-49 Pushing the Boundary of Data Science through Statistical Modelling and Inference" - Highlights from a Special Issue Jyotishka Datta Victor Hugo Lachos, Indranil Sahoo, Jyotishka Datta, Colin Wu 6 Whitney
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-24 Bayesian Approaches to Biomedical Data: Innovations and Applications Madeleine E St Ville Madeleine St. Ville, Xingpei Zho, Eva Murphy, Erica Porter 1 Chapel A
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-25 Recent advances at the intersection of AI, statistics and computation Donghui Yan Fei Miao, Qitian Wu, Yin Luo, Yu Cheng 2 Chapel B
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-32 Advances in Statistical Methodologies for High-Dimensional Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Data Yingxin Lin Leying Guan, Lukas Weber, Dongyuan Song, Lijun Wang 3 Chapel C
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-27 The Intersection of Sports and Statistics Elizabeth Upton Plantinga, Lautier, Upton, MacDonald 4 George A
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-28 Advances in Methodologies for Estimating and Leveraging Causal Effects Under Interference in Public Health Studies Ashley Buchanan Zhang, Dal Torrione, Fang, Buchanan 5 George B
June 3, 1:20PM-2:50PM Parallel Session 5 NESS2025-IS-29 Frontiers of Mathematical Finance Oleksii Mostovyi Saad Mouti, Xiaohang Ma,  Qingshuo Song, and Oleksii Mostovyi 6 Whitney
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-30 Challenges and Opportunities of Genetically Informed Analyses: From Pleiotropy to Causal Inference Mihaela Aslan, Renato Polimanti Brenda Cabrera Mendoza, Jun He, Dan Qiu, Renato Polimanti 1 Chapel A
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-31 Statistics and machine learning for social good Donghui Yan Joy Chu, Cynthia Y. Tian, Ryan Berry, Isabel Zou 2 Chapel B
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-26 Advancing Statistical Methods for Environmental Mixtures: Precision, Causality, and Scalable Inference Ruijin Lu Ander Wilson, Howard Chang, Suyeon Kang, Ruijin Lu 3 Chapel C
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-33 Statistical foundations for complex models and datasets Yuchen Wu Cynthia Rush, Yandi Shen, Chenyang Zhong, Kangjie Zhou 4 George A
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-34 Recent advances in statistical genetics and genomics Yuping Zhang Eric Pederson, Zuoheng Anita Wang, Patrick Flaherty, Zhengqing Ouyang 5 George B
June 3, 3:00PM-4:30PM Parallel Session 6 NESS2025-IS-35 Statistical Breakthroughs in Multiview Data Science Himel Mallick Curtis Huttenhower, Hongyu Zhao, Boyu Ren, Siyuan Ma 6 Whitney