2024

Bits in Bio x Nucleate x Valence Labs
Panelist for the Montreal AI in Biotech Engage & Connect Event (link)

2023

Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University
Career panelist for the QLS Research day

International Chinese Statistical Association
Fifth ICSA-Canada Chapter Symposium (Invited)
Variable Selection in Parametric Hazard Models
Statistical Society of Canada
Annual Meeting (Invited)
Variable Selection in Parametric Hazard Models
Research Institute McGill University Health Centre
Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Biostatistical Principles & Practices Seminar (Invited)
Predict or explain: What can machine learning do for me?
Video
Statistical Society of Canada
New Investigators Session (Invited)
Supervising students

Deep Genomics
Target Identification Seminar (Invited)
Variable Selection and Prediction for High-Dimensional Genetic Data with Complex Structures
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie (Invited)
Avances dans les modèles mixtes pour la prévision et la sélection des variables dans les données de grande dimension
Memorial University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Invited)
Sparse Additive Interaction Learning
Western University
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences (Invited)
Sparse Additive Interaction Learning
McGill University
Quantitative Life Sciences (Invited)
Variable selection in high-dimensional genetic data

Université de Sherbrooke
Département de mathématiques (Invited)
Avances dans les modèles mixtes pour la prévision et la sélection des variables dans les données de grande dimension
UQAM
Département de mathématiques (Invited)
Avances dans les modèles mixtes pour la prévision et la sélection des variables dans les données de grande dimension

CMStatistics, London, UK
12th International Conference on Computational and Methodological Statistics (Invited)
Simultaneous SNP selection and adjustment for population structure in high-dimensional prediction models
HDDA IX, Uppsala University, Sweden
Perspectives on high-dimensional data analysis workshop (Contributed)
Strong Additive Interaction Learning
UQAM
Sommet étudiant de la statistique à Montréal. Conférence plénière.
Miser sur la sparsité
McGill University
Environmental Epi Seminar
Data Organization in Spreadsheets and Tidy Data

Lady Davis Institute
JGH Epidemiology Seminar series
Pick your favorite buzzword: Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning
JSM 2018, Vancouver
Joint Statistical Meeting (Contributed)
A General Framework for Variable Selection in Linear Mixed Models with Applications to Genetic Studies with Structured Populations
14th Annual McGill EBOH Research Day
Student Keynote Presentation
Pick your favorite buzzword: Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning
McGill University
Special Seminar Series, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Betting on Sparsity

Lady Davis Institute
Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Statistics vs. Machine Learning: Why can't we be friends?
SSC 2017, Winnipeg
Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (Contributed)
Variable Selection in Nonlinear Interactions with the Group Lasso

Montreal Neurological Institute
Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health (Invited)
Methods for High Dimensional Interactions
CHSGM 2016, Halifax
Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting (Contributed)
A Model for Interpretable High Dimensional Interactions

Notman House
Montréal useR group
Introduction to knitr and RMarkdown
HIV/HCV Co-infection Cohort Journal Club
Montréal General Hospital
Competing Risks
CHSGM 2015, Vancouver
Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting (Contributed)
DNA methylation and Expression to predict childhood obesity
Lady Davis Institute
Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Imputing Epigenomic Datasets
Lady Davis Institute
Greenwood lab meeting
Making sense of Methylation and Expression data

McGill University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Estimation and Accuracy after Model Selection
McGill University
McGill Biostatistics Journal Club
Reproducible Research with knitr
Lady Davis Institute
Statistical Genetics Journal Club
Transmission Ratio Distortion in Extended Families

Queen's University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Master's Thesis Defence
Absolute risk estimation in a case cohort study of prostate cancer
Queen's University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Introduction to $$\LaTeX$$
Queen's University
Department of Public Health Sciences
Factors influencing participation in Colorectal Cancer screening

Queen's University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Computational methods for absolute risk estimation in Case-Cohort studies

Cambridge, UK
26th International Genetic Epidemiology Society Meeting
Estimation for High-Dimensional Multivariate Linear Mixed Models in Structured Populations

Halifax, Canada
5th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting
A Model for Interpretable High Dimensional Interactions

Vancouver, Canada
4th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting (Awarded Best Poster)
Integrating DNA Methylation and Gene Expression data in Placenta Tissue to Predict Childhood Obesity

Vienna, Austria
Genetic Analysis Workshop 19
Multivariate rare-variant association test
Vienna, Austria
Genetic Analysis Workshop 19
Transmission Ratio Distortion in Extended Families
Toronto, Canada
Statistical Society of Canada Meeting 2014 Case Study Competition
Effect of Economy on TV time use