| Mar 22, 2022 | Arthur Ayestas Hilgert, an undergraduate student in my lab, has been awarded a NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. He will be working on tuning-free ridge regression in high dimensions applied to polygenic risk score prediction. Congrats Arthur! |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Jiayi Geng, an undergraduate student in my lab, has been awarded a McGill Science Undergraduate Research Award (SURA). She will be working on variable selection for competing-risk analysis using case-base sampling. Congrats Jiayi! |
| Feb 26, 2022 | The ‘Poisson’ Distribution: history, re-enactments, adaptations with Jim Hanley accepted for pulication in The American Statistician. |
| Jan 20, 2022 | CIHR Project Grant on Leveraging high-volume data to characterize age and individual-specific vital signs and to develop novel geriatric vital signs that optimally predict clinical outcomes in older adults awarded. Well done Quoc and Tina! |
| Jan 04, 2022 | Sparse Bayesian Predictive Modelling of Tumor Response Using Radiomic Features with Shirin Golchi, my student Jingyan Fu, and others, accepted for pulication in Stat. |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Variable Selection in Regression-based Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes by my PhD student Zeyu Bian accepted for pulication in Biometrics. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13608 |
| Jan 19, 2021 | New preprint on Variable Selection in Regression-based Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes by my PhD student Zeyu Bian. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07359 |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Dr. Richard Garfinkle successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Dr. !! |
| Sep 24, 2020 | New preprint on Improving Convergence for Nonconvex Composite Programming by my PhD student Kai Yang. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10629 |
| Sep 23, 2020 | CIHR Project Grant on Evaluating the Trajectory of Aortic Stenosis (AS) in Quebec patients - Diagnosis, Treatments, and Outcomes awarded. Well done Jay! |
| Sep 22, 2020 | New preprint on an alternative framework for survival analysis using case-base sampling https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10264 |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Congrats to Haoyu Wu for submitting her MSc Epidemiology thesis! She will beging her PhD in Biostatistics at McGill in Fall 2020 |
| Aug 05, 2020 | Congrats to Julien St-Pierre for passing his theory comprehensive exam. Bravo Julien! |
| May 04, 2020 | Simultaneous SNP selection and adjustment for population structure in high dimensional prediction models pubished in PloS Genetics with accompanying R package ggmix available on CRAN. |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Thanks to NSERC for supporting me with a Discovery Grant for my work on Variable Selection and Prediction for High-Dimensional Genetic Data with Complex Structures |
| Mar 19, 2020 | New R packages sail and ggmix on CRAN. |
| Mar 03, 2020 | New blog post on creating and automatically deploying your R package website. |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Simultaneous SNP selection and adjustment for population structure in high dimensional prediction models talk at CMStatistics 2019 in London. |
| May 05, 2019 | I’ll be giving a 1-day workshop on Creating an R package at McGill on May 27th, 2019. Materials available here. |
| Apr 29, 2019 | I’m giving a short course on Data analysis using penalized regression methods at the McGill Summer School in Health Data Analytics on May 9th, 2019. Slides available here. |
| Apr 05, 2019 | J’enseigne un atelier intitulé « Avoir une présence en ligne: Outils pour la diffusion rapide et reproductible de la recherche » à R à Québec, le 14 mai, 2019. Campus de l’Université Laval. Matériels disponible ici. |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Conférence plénière au Sommet étudiant de la statistique à Montréal. UQAM. |
| Aug 02, 2018 | Slides from my contributed talk on variable selection in mixed models at JSM 2018 in Vancouver. |
| Jul 20, 2018 | New preprint on variable selection in mixed models and accompanying R package ggmix |
| Jul 05, 2018 | A lightning talk on The Division of Labour at the 2018 R in Montreal conference |
| Jun 02, 2018 | Website and GitHub repo for the workshop I gave on building a website at the 6th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference in Montréal, QC. |
| May 09, 2018 | New paper published in Rheumatology |
| Mar 28, 2018 | I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at McGill University as of July 2018 |
| Mar 16, 2018 | Slides from my keynote presentation @McGillEBOH Research Day |
| Mar 01, 2018 | Check out my talk on non-linear interaction models |
| Feb 19, 2018 | My tutorial on regression trees in english and in french |
| Feb 08, 2018 | Miser sur la sparsité présenté à l’Université Laval |
| Dec 17, 2017 | Our paper on predictive models in the presence of interactions with exposures has been published in Genetic Epidemiology |