CANSSI Ontario Research Day 2024
This is a free, in-person event.
Overview
The CANSSI Ontario Research Day will showcase the work and discoveries by early-career researchers in the statistics community in Ontario. This one-day event draws participants from many Ontario universities, public, not-for-profit, and the research sector for a full day of data and discoveries.
2024 Themes
Financial, Actuarial, and Data Sciences, Big Data, Health Data, and Statistics Theory.
Registration
- Lunch, as well as drinks and snacks during the morning and afternoon breaks, will be provided.
- Seating is available on a first come, first served basis, subject to venue capacity.
- If you are a PhD student interested in presenting at the poster session, please register here
Poster
Hourly Schedule
May 22, 2024
- 9:30 am - 10:00 am
- Light Breakfast
- 10:00 am - 10:05 am
- Welcoming Remarks
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Speakers:
Lisa Strug
- 10:05 am - 11:25 am
- Session 1 - Oral Presentations
Moderator: Hanna Jankowski, York University - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyV3s1JVGVI&t=3633s
Devan Becker, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Identification of Variants of Concern Without Knowing What a Variant isXin Bing, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Linear Discriminant Regularized RegressionSanjeena Dang, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
A parsimonious family of mixtures of multivariate Poisson log-normal factor analyzers for clustering count dataUtkarsh Dang, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University
Modeling data from rare diseases: a spotlight on Duchenne muscular dystrophy -
Speakers:
Devan Becker, Sanjeena Dang, Utkarsh Dang, Xin Bing
- 11:25 am - 11:30 am
- Break
- 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
- Session 2: Oral Presentations
Moderator: Zeny Feng, University of Guelph Osvaldo Espin Garcia, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario
Finding your niche: Launching a research program in biostatisticsKevin Granville, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor
Investigating changes in the timing of Ontario's wildland fire season: a spatial perspectivePratheepa Jeganathan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
Enhancing LDA for Longitudinal Microbiome StudiesBrian Ling, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Test for Univariate Shape-constrained Densities-
Speakers:
Brian Ling, Kevin Granville, Osvaldo Espin Garcia, Pratheepa Jeganathan
- 12:50 pm - 1:30 pm
- Lunch & Trainee Poster Session
- Chegini, Sadegh (University of Ottawa) "Random Discrete Probability Measures Based on Negative Binomial Process"
Fang, Zhi Yi (Queen's University) "Networks of human milk microbiota are associated with host genomics, childhood asthma and allergic sensitization"
Fontenelle, Joao Pedro (University of Toronto) "How Do Outbreak Cycles Affect Population Genetic Inferences?"
Ghannam, Mai (University of Ottawa) "Block maxima methods in non-stationary location-scale models"
Henechowicz, Tara (University of Toronto) "Protective genetic effects of active music engagement on mental health resilience"
Li, Nancy (University of Toronto) "Integrating ReactomeGSA for Enhanced Pathway Analysis in Single-Cell Biology"
Men, Xiaoyu (University of Toronto) "Investigating the Effect of CYP2D6-Mediated Pharmacokinetics on Venlafaxine Treatment Outcomes in Older Adults with Depression"
Monice, Simon (University of Toronto) "Genome assembly and functional annotation of the naked mole-rat reveals insights onto their unique physiology"
Mossman, Alexandra (University of Waterloo) "Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Hierarchical Datasets under Within- and Between-Group Interference"
Niazy, Maysa (University of Guelph) " Latent Variable Modeling Reveals Associations between Vaginal Discharges, Stillbirths, and Vaginal Microbiota Dynamics in Gilts"
Onifade, Maryam (University of Ottawa) "An EM algorithm for linear mixed models with missing genotypes data. "
Pan, Ruyi (University of Toronto) "Spatial-extent inference for testing variance components in reliability and heritability studies"
Sanders, Eric (University of Toronto) "Colocalization analysis of sex-dependent traits"
Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad (McMaster University) "Research Transparency in 59 Disciplines of Clinical Medicine: A Meta-Research Study"
Stickley, Sara (Queen's University) "Host genomics and environmental exposures are associated with networks of gut microbes implicated with childhood atopy and asthma in the CHILD Cohort Study"
Tian, Yuan (University of Toronto) "Enhancing Gene-Based Association Testing leveraging ML-Derived Surrogate Phenotypes from EHRs"
Tsui, Teresa (University of Toronto) "Creating a Multiply Imputed Value Set for the EQ-5D-5L in Canada: State-Level Misspecification Terms Are Needed to Characterize Parameter Uncertainty Correctly"
- 1:30 pm - 3:10 pm
- Session 3 - Oral Presentations
Moderator: Michael Wallace, University of Waterloo Pouria Ramazi, Faculty of Mathematics & Statistics, Brock University
The shortcut-PC algorithmKelly Ramsay, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
Differentially private projection-depth-based mediansJustin Slater, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
Overdispersed or under-reported? A practical look at network autoregressions for under-reported infectious disease dataLan Wen, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Estimating the average causal effects of food substitution strategiesJoseph Jay Williams, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Intelligent Adaptive Experimentation: Integrating Statistics & Machine Learning to Accelerate Science and Help People
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Speakers:
Joseph Jay Williams, Justin Slater, Kelly Ramsay, Lan Wen, Pouria Ramazi
- 3:10 pm - 3:15 pm
- Closing Remarks
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Speakers:
Rohan Alexander
- 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
- Transition to 2024 DLSS with Dr. Susan Holmes
- Register here: https://canssiontario.utoronto.ca/event/2024-dlss-susan-holmes/
Location
Speakers
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Brian LingAssistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
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Kevin Granville
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor
Kevin GranvilleAssistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor
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Osvaldo Espin GarciaAssistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario
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Pratheepa JeganathanAssistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
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Sanjeena DangAssociate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
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Xin BingAssistant Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
