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  • Modular Software for Mediation Analysis of Microbiome Data. BIRS Workshop - Novel Statistical Approaches for Studying Multi-omics Data. July 2025.
  • Towards Veridical Microbiome Analysis through Semisynthetic Data. Veridical Data Science for Biology. July 2025.
  • Semisynthetic Controls and Cancer Microbiome Analysis. ICSA 2025. June 2025.
  • Interactively Resolving Distortion in Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction. IISA 2025. June 2025.
  • Enhancing Microbiome Analysis with Semisynthetic Data. STATGEN 2025. May 2025.
  • Multiscale Topic Modeling with the Alto Package. Symposium on Data Science and Statistics. April 2025.
  • Multiscale Topic Modeling with Alto. CGSI Virtual Class. April 2025.
  • Enhancing Microbiome Analysis with Semisynthetic Data. Machine Learning Lunch Meetings. April 2025.
  • Enhancing Microbiome Analysis with Semisynthetic Data. MCBIOS Orchestrating the Microbiome Symphony. March 2025.
  • Topic Models for Microbiome Analysis. VUMC Biostatistics Seminar. February 2025.
  • Enhancing Microbiome Analysis with Semisynthetic Data. UW-Madison Plant Pathology Seminar. February 2025.
  • Visualizing Microbiome Data. AHRI Seminar. January 2025.
  • Interpretable and Interactive Machine Learning. IISA 2024. December 2024.
  • Topic Models for Multiscale Analysis. IISA 2024. December 2024.
  • Microbiome Data Science. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. September 2024.
  • Microbiome Intervention Analysis with mbtransfer. Joint Statistical Meetings. August 2024.
  • Topic Models for Multiscale Analysis. Computational Genomics Summer Institute. July 2024.
  • Interactivity for Interpretable Machine Learning. Computational Genomics Summer Institute. July 2024.
  • Trustworthy and Adaptable Biological Data Integration. July 2024.
  • Interactivity, Interpretability, and Generative Models. INFORMS ALIO-ASOCIO. (recording). June 2024.
  • Semisynthetic Simulation for Biological Data Analysis: Integrative Analysis. (notebooks). Melbourne Integrative Genomics Workshop. June 2024.
  • Semisynthetic Simulation for Biological Data Analysis: Multivariate Analysis. (notebooks). Melbourne Integrative Genomics Workshop. June 2024.
  • Semisynthetic Simulation for Biological Data Analysis: Marginal Modeling. (notebooks). Melbourne Integrative Genomics Workshop. June 2024.
  • Expressive Interfaces for Multi-omics Simulation. Melbourne Integrative Genomics Seminar. May 2024.
  • Multiscale Analysis of Microbiome Data with Alto. STATGEN 2024. May 2024.
  • Integrated Views of HIV Acquisition Risk. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. April 2024.
  • Transparent Synthetic Data Generation. Machine Learning Lunch Meetings. April 2024.
  • Interpretability: What’s Possible? What’s Next? (recording). BIRS Workshop on Statistical Aspects of Trustworthy Machine Learning. February 2024.
  • Simulation in Omics. (quarto, colab). UW Methods for Biological Data Workshop. February 2024.
  • Challenges in Phylogenetic Inference (Faculty Introduction). Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Seminar Series. January 2024.
  • Interpretability: Beyond Black and White. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. January 2024.
  • Expressive Interfaces for Multi-omics Simulation. (quarto, colab, visualization). UW Madison Statistics Seminar. December 2023.
  • Student Satisfaction with R vs. Excel in Data Mining and Business Analytics. Decision Sciences Institute. November 2023.
  • Visualization in Deep Learning: Theme and Variations. UW Machine Learning Lunch Meetings. November 2023.
  • Interactive Multiview Data Science. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Symposium. November 2023.
  • Beyond Black Box Simulation. ASA Section on Statistical Computing Mini-Symposium. November 2023.
  • Microbiome Data Science. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. September 2023.
  • Generative Models for Microbiome Mediation Analysis. Joint Statistical Meetings. August 2023.
  • Generative Models for Microbiome Mediation Analysis. EcoSta. August 2023.
  • Selective Inference for Computational Genomics (recording). Computational Genomics Summer Institute. July 2023.
  • Ecosystem Modeling using Multimodal Data. Microsoft AI for Good Lab. July 2023.
  • Transfer Function Modeling of Microbial Community Shifts. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. April 2023.
  • Evaluating Causal Microbiome Models. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. January 2023.
  • Generative Models for Microbiome Mediation Analysis. CMStatistics. December 2022.
  • Microbiome Studies: Design, Infrastructure, and Inference. MSTP M2 Journal Club. November 2022.
  • Visualization and Simulation in Microbial Community Analysis. Indiana University Bloomington Statistics Colloquium. September 2022.
  • Notes - A Simple Measure of Conditional Independence. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. September 2022.
  • Reasoning About Interventions: A Statistical Tour. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Seminar. September 2022.
  • Latent Structure Laboratory. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. September 2022.
  • Generative Approaches to Microbiome Mediation Analysis. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. July 2022.
  • Meditation and the Microbiome. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. April 2022.
  • Revisiting Iterative Data Structuration: Alignment, Refinement, and Simulation. University of Pittsburgh Statistics Seminar. April 2022.
  • Generative Models and Experimental Design. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. January 2022.
  • Multiscale Topic Visualization in the Microbiome. ML + X Talks, UW Madison Data Science Hub. November 2021.
  • Multiscale Analysis of Count Data through Topic Alignment (demo). McMaster Statistics Seminar. November 2021.
  • Understanding Machine Learning Algorithms (code, whiteboard). Data Science Nigeria AI Bootcamp. October 2021.
  • Recent Multi-Omics Methods and their Ancestors. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. October 2021.
  • Latent Structure Laboratory. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. September 2021.
  • Multiresolution Analysis of Count Data through Topic Alignment. Susan Holmes Group Meeting. August 2021.
  • Discovery and Visualization - Invitation to Research. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. March 2021.
  • Visualization and Representation in Complex Data. UW Madison VISP Talks. November 2020.
  • Invitation to Research. UW Madison Statistics Department Lightning Talks. September 2020.
  • The Stability of Learned Features. IMS Bernoulli One-World Symposium. August 2020. Recording.
  • Formalization of Complex Workflows. Stanford University Data Science Scholars. August 2020.
  • Tackling Societal Problems of Climate Change with Machine Learning. Montreal AI Symposium. September 2019.
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