Archived Events

OTMLE Reading Group - Wednesdays @2:15pm

Starting September 25, the OTMLE (Optimal Transport and Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation) reading group explores the intersection of optimal transport theory and TMLE, offering a fresh perspective on how TMLE fluctuations of probability measures can be understood. The group covers key topics, including history of optimal transport, Wasserstein metrics, geodesics, gradient flows, statistical estimation, and information geometry. Each session focuses on one of these themes, providing participants with a comprehensive foundation to bridge optimal transport with statistical estimation...

12/4/24 Series: "Investigation of the Average Treatment Effect of Interest in the Presence of Rescue Medication in a Randomized Clinical Trial"

Join us on December 4th for another exciting talk in our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Louise Oesterby Jespersen & Silje Post Stroem's talk "Investigation of the Average Treatment Effect of Interest in the Presence of Rescue Medication in a Randomized Clinical Trial" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Clinical study participants often experience worsening of symptoms or even insufficient therapeutic effects in RCTs and in response, participants might start non-randomised disease targeting medication also referred to as rescue medication...

11/20/24 Series: "Theory, Education, Application, Deployment: Designing Software to Bring Advanced Health Data Science to All"

Join us on November 20th for another exciting talk in our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Stathis Gennatas’ talk "Theory, Education, Application, Deployment: Designing Software to Bring Advanced Health Data Science to All" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Health data science requires the combination of domain, quantitative, and technical expertise. Purpose-built software combining all three can catalyze new method development, education, and real-world application of advanced data analytics. We present ongoing work aiming to make state-of-the-...

11/13/24 Series: "Unleashing Sparse Regularization: Equation for Setting Regularization Strength to Achieve Targeted Compression in CNNs and Transformers"

Join us on November 13th for another exciting talk in our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Gilmer Valdes’ talk “Unleashing Sparse Regularization: Equation for Setting Regularization Strength to Achieve Targeted Compression in CNNs and Transformers ” will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.


Setting the regularization strength parameter in neural networks is often done manually, requiring computationally heavy grid searches that limit practitioners to testing only a few values. This constraint hinders fully harnessing sparse regularization’...

11/6/24 Seminar: "Optimizing Variance Estimation for Causal Inference Through HAL-based Bootstrap"

Join us on November 6th to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Wendy Ji's talk "Optimizing Variance Estimation for Causal Inference Through HAL-based Bootstrap" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Variance estimation plays a critical role in accurately inferring causal parameters. Conventional approaches often underestimate variance, potentially leading to elevated type-I errors in limited samples or presence of near-positivity violations. By combining novel variance estimators with a HAL-based bootstrap approach, this project seeks to...

10/30/24 Seminar: "Towards a Post-Market Monitoring Framework for Machine Learning-Based Medical Devices"

Join us on October 30th for another exciting talk in our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Jean Feng's talk "Towards a Post-Market Monitoring Framework for Machine Learning-Based Medical Devices" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

After a machine learning (ML)-based system is deployed in clinical practice, performance monitoring is widely recognized to be a crucial component to ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the algorithm over time. Nevertheless, designing an effective monitoring strategy is highly complex given the multitude of design...

10/23/24 Seminar: "Embedded RCTs in Learning Health Systems"

Join us on October 23rd to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series. Mark Pletcher's talk "Embedded RCTs in Learning Health Systems" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

By embedding randomization into the process of healthcare delivery and comparing outcomes of patients randomly exposed to an intervention or an alternative, health systems can learn to improve the care they deliver and the outcomes of their patients. Embedding randomization into healthcare delivery, however, is challenging. Randomization must be triggered for the right patient at...

10/16/24 Seminar: "Towards Estimation of the Intensity"

Join us on October 16th to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Yi Li's talk "Towards Estimation of the Intensity" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5101. Please note the conference room change for this seminar.

Intensity estimation serves as a key building block to understand the jumping process. In statistics, we can even model the density through intensity. However, intensity estimation usually involves partial log likelihood that takes the form of integration of the intensity and log of the intensity itself for a single observation of...

10/9/24 Seminar: "Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis of Human Milk, Maternal Nutritional Supplementation, and Child Growth: Results from the IMiC Multi-Site Study"

Join us on October 9th to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series! Andrew Merten's talk "Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis of Human Milk, Maternal Nutritional Supplementation, and Child Growth: Results from the IMiC Multi-Site Study" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Breastfeeding provides optimal nutrition and immune protection to infants. Human milk contains a plethora of nutritional and non-nutritional compounds that support infant growth and development. Many are highly variable between and within mothers, but little is known about the source...

10/2/24 Seminar: "Causal Inference for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Medical Tests"

Join us on October 2nd to continue our Fall 2024 CTML Seminar Series. Wenxin Zhang's talk "Causal Inference for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Medical Tests" will take place at 11:00AM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Medical tests play a critical role in detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring diseases. However, unlike treatments, administering medical tests does not directly influence health outcomes. This disconnection poses a challenge in evaluating their true effectiveness. In this...