Upcoming talks: ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium 2021 (September 13, 2021), MRC Biostatistics Unit seminar series, University of Cambridge (November 2, 2021), ABACBS National Seminar Series (November 16, 2021)
We organise Deep Learning in Medical Biology Symposium (Oct 29, 2020).
Upcoming talk: the AMSI BioinfoSummer 2019 (Dec 2-6, 2019)
Upcoming talk: Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series at School of Mathematics and Statistic, University of Sydney (Sept 30, 2019)
Upcoming talks: Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Data, Chile (March 25-29), Mathematical and computational biology seminar series (May 13th), WEHI Bioinformatics seminar series (August 6th)
Feb/18/2019 Yupei joined us and will work on analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data for alternative splicing (co-supervised with Dr. Mike Clark). Welcome Yupei!
Upcoming talks: Department of Mathematics at POSTECH, Korea (July, 2nd), Department of Mathematics and Statistics at La Trobe University (August, 3rd), Joint International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Australian Statistical Conference (August 26-30), Melbourne Integrative Genomics seminar series (October, 26th), Bayesian Statistics in the Big Data Era, France (November 26-30)
September/08/2017 Maurice Belz Research Fellow, Dr. Houying Zhu will work with us on multi-scale approaches (wavelets/treelets). Welcome, Dr. Houying Zhu! I’m very looking forward to our collaboration!
September/07/2017 Upcoming invited talks: the WIMSIG conference (Sept 26), Department of Mathematical Sciences at KAIST (Colloquium at Dec 19, Seminar for Statistics group at Dec 20)
August/29/2017 I gave a short presentation at the SysGen Symposium.
August/11/2017 Congratulations to Patrick for his PhD defense in Purdue!!
August/03/2017 We welcomed Dani! Dani joined us and will work on a project where we apply/compare treelets, PCA, and other clustering methods for estimating population structure from genetic data.
July/07/2017 I’m very happy to share several news from the group. Emery and Yash are doing internships for the summer (Emery at Illumina; Yash at Google). Israa continues working on our probabilistic splicing project and she stays in our collaborator Canzar’s lab in Munich, Germany. Nathan has moved to a Statistical Analyst position at Medpace. Sicheng has moved to a Research Assistant position at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and will join
Vitek lab from this fall. Nathan and Sicheng, best wishes for your next positions! I also have moved to Melbourne this June! First, I would like to thank my colleagues at Purdue for all of their support and friendship over the past two years. Time has come for a next chapter in my career. I’m very excited to start the new chapter in Melbourne.
1/09/2017 Welcome to Israa and Yash. Israa and Yash joined us this semester and will develop the software for probabilistic splicing models.
11/21/2016 Welcome to Patrick and Nathan. Patrick and I have been developing wavelets-based approaches to genetic association analysis of topological data. Nathan did a reading class with me this fall semester. Nathan will join the lab and work on a project where we develop statistical approaches to RNA-seq data analyses (e.g., alternative splicing).
6/29/2016 “BayesCAT: Bayesian Co-estimation of Alignment and Tree” has been accepted at Biometrics.
6/26/2016 We have been organizing two journal clubs with other labs: deep learning JC and Phylogenetics/Stochastic Processes Journal Club. Feel free to email me if you’d like to join (even for a particular paper) or you have any suggestions for papers. You can find links to those JCs in meetings page.
6/7/2016 riboHMM paper is now out in eLife [link]
2/9/2016 Welcome to Emery and Sicheng. Emery and I start a project where we consider multi-scale models to cluster functional data from high-throughput sequencing assays. Potential applications include clustering different patterns of (co)transcription factor binding across regions or tissues using ATAC-seq data (collaborating with Roger and Francesca) and clustering gene expression patterns across tissues using RNA-seq data. Sicheng will help me with HMT (hidden Markov Tree prior) project. Welcome!
2/9/2016 Heejung teaches stat 512 Applied Regression Analysis in Spring 2016.
12/1/2015 I’ll be giving a seminar at Exploring Statistical Sciences seminar in Purdue University. (December 2)
11/15/2015 riboHMM paper is now out on bioRxiv [link].
11/15/2015 I’ll be giving a seminar at the Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Center in Samsung Medical Center (November 23).
10/26/2015 I’m going to visit Dr. Fernando Quintana at Dec 21 and 22. During my visit, I’ll be giving a seminar in Department of Statistics at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and catching up with Dr. Peter Mueller and Dr. Yuan Ji who also visit Dr Quintana during those days. I’m very looking forward to the visit and getting feedback on multi-scale clustering of high-throughput sequencing data.
9/26/2015 msCentipede paper is now out in PLoS ONE [link].
9/21/2015 Our multi-scale project has been selected for a platform presentation at CSHL Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (Oct 14-17; I will be presenting).
9/4/2015 I’ll be presenting multi-scale projects at Statistical Bioinformatics seminar in Purdue University. (September 8)
8/19/2015 We seek highly motivated students to join our group. We are based in the Department of Statistics at the Purdue University. Please feel free to contact Heejung Shim if you are interested in joining us or having a rotation.
8/17/2015 The Shim Lab begins at Purdue University.
7/26/2015 Wavelets paper is now out in Annals of Applied Statistics [link].
5/2/2015 Subfraction paper is now out in PLoS ONE [link].
4/5/2015 Anil, Sidney, and I have developed a hidden Markov model, riboHMM, to use the ribosome profiling data for accurate inference of translated open reading frames. This riboHMM project has been selected for a talk at the Biology of Genomes (May 5-9; Anil will be presenting).
3/27/2015 I’m going to visit the Department of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from April 13 to 25. Thanks to Or for hosting me. During my stay, I’ll be presenting multi-scale projects at statistic seminar in the Tel Aviv University (April 14) and in the Hebrew University (April 20). I’m very much looking forward to the visit!
3/1/2015 Or and I have been working on modeling dependent structure in multiscale space using hidden Markov tree (HMT) prior. Or will be presenting this HMT project at the EMR-IBS (May 11-15).
2/13/2015 Heejung will be joining the Department of Statistics at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor.
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