Stats Up AI

🔁 Continuing members: Past Chair: Tian Zheng (@Columbia) Past Program Chair: Edgar Dobriban (@Penn) Secretary: Jian Kang (@UMich) 🔗 Full announcement: lnkd.in/erYa_R-6 #ResponsibleAI #AIinScience #ResearchCommunity #AcademicCommunity

👥 Newly elected & appointed (2026): Chair: Peter X. Song (@UMich) Chair-Elect: Hongtu Zhu (@UNCCH) Program Chair: Wenyi Wang (@MDAndersonNews) Program Chair-Elect: Linjun Zhang (@RutgersU) Outreach Chair: Jackson Lautier (@bentleyu) #MachineLearning #Biostatistics

🎉 StatsUpAI announces the 2026 Executive Committee! Thank you to everyone in our community who participated in the election and contributed feedback—your engagement continues to drive our momentum. 🧵👇 #StatsUpAI #Statistics #AI #DataScience

Excited to share a webinar with Dr. James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science (CS, EE) and leader of the Stanford AI for Science Lab as he talks about the usage of AI agents to accelerate scientific discoveries! You can find the link here: youtu.be/pl_ek2PvFb0

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Weijie Su, recipient of the 2026 COPSS Presidents’ Award! His work exemplifies the deep synergy between statistics and modern AI. In an earlier interview, he shared how “statistics has a tremendous role in advancing AI.” statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

Transcriptomic Deconvolution Explained youtu.be/reB-2HT4KUg via @YouTube Nature Reviews Cancer: Guide to tumor deconvolution: cell-type proportions + cell-type-specific signals; surveys 43 methods + pitfalls + best-use cases. doi.org/10.1038/s41568… by @WenyiWang4 's team

🚀 In Conversation: Cancer Transcriptomic Deconvolution — A deep interview unpacking a Nature Reviews Cancer guide on choosing and applying transcriptomic deconvolution methods in cancer research. statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

🚀 Rebuilding Statistics in the Age of AI — A candid town‑hall from JSM 2024 where leaders like Donoho, Lin, Mukherjee, Xing & more grapple with the role of statistics as AI scales—debating rigor vs utility, theory vs systems, and adaptation statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

🚀 LAMBDA: A game-changer in data analysis! Developed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, this AI-driven system enables natural language-based data analysis with dual-agent architecture. Explore how it's transforming research & data science education. statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

Check out Dr. Wenyi Wang's interview on transcriptomic deconvolution in cancer, where they discuss dynamic tumor states, the "missing reference" issue, and so much more in “A guide to transcriptomic deconvolution in cancer”🌟 statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

Join us in two weeks for an exciting webinar with James Zou from Stanford University, exploring how AI agents are accelerating scientific discoveries – sign up now!

StatsUpAI is hosting the next webinar from Dr. James Zou (Stanford) on “AI agents to accelerate scientific discoveries.” Join us on Wed, Feb 11 at 1pm ET. Scan the QR code to register!

StatsUpAI is hosting the next webinar from Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (Duke) on “Leveraging LLMs for student feedback in introductory data science courses.” Join us on Fri, Jan 16th at 12pm ET. Scan the QR code to register!

The next webinar from StatsUpAI will be on Thursday July 16, 12pm-1pm EST. See bellow to register.

Duke & Chen Institute Joint AI Boot Camp 2025 Concludes Successfully. A five-day intensive program explores cutting-edge applications of AI in healthcare and medical research. statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

UNC Deep Learning in Biomedical Sciences course resources & JSM 2025 Short Course statsupai.org/quarto_web/sit…

* September – TBA
🎤 Zhengwu Zhang (UNC Chapel Hill)
Topic: DTI
🔗 Zoom link coming soon! 🎥 Watch past and future talks on our YouTube channel: lnkd.in/evJXJhuW 🌐 Visit our website: statsupai.org 📣 Please share with colleagues who might be interested!

* June 6, 11 AM–12 PM (ET)
🎤 Hernando Ombao (KAUST)
Topic: EEG
🔗 Zoom Registration: lnkd.in/eEBfkkaU * July 16, 12–1 PM (ET)
🎤 Dana Tudorascu (University of Pittsburgh)
Topic: PET
🔗 Zoom Registration: lnkd.in/eXRJsYFP

🚨 We’re excited to launch our new Online Seminar Series on Statistics & AI in Health Data Science! 📅Upcoming Talks: * May 8, 3–4 PM (ET)
🎤 Ying Guo (Emory University)
Topic: fMRI data
🔗 Zoom Registration: lnkd.in/eAEjwvei

🌟Statistical and AI Methods for Health Data Science Seminar Series🌟 We are thrilled to have Martin Lindquist give our first seminar on "Elements of Functional Neuroimaging" on Apr 9, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST. Zoom Meeting (requires registration): upenn.zoom.us/j/94227327976.