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2025 Concluding Symposium and Professional Development Day

July 24 and 25

The Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale (BDSY) Program’s Concluding Symposium and Professional Development Day, taking place on July 24 and 25, 2025, serve as capstone events for the program. Both events are open to the public. Please use the link below to register.

2025 Featured Speakers

Symposium

  • Harrison H. Zhou, PhD

    Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University

    Henry Ford II Professor

  • Harsh Parikh, PhD

    Yale School of Public Health

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

  • Terika McCall, PhD

    Yale School of Public Health

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)

  • Peter Clardy, MD

    Google Health

    Pulmonary and Critical Care physician; Lead of Clinical Enterprise Team

2025 Symposium Schedule

Thursday, July 24, 2025 | 219 Prospect Street, Room 1307/1327

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Room 1327

Welcome Remarks
Daniel Spielman, PhD
Sterling Professor of Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science and Mathematics
James A. Attwood Director of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science at Yale (FDS)


9:10 AM – 9:30 AM | Room 1327

Program Reflections
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD

BDSY Program Director


9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Room 1327

Keynote Lecture
Harrison H. Zhou, PhD
Henry Ford II Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science


10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Break


11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Room 1327

Invited Talk
Harsh Parikh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics


11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Room 1327

Invited Talk
Terika McCall, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)


12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Room 1307

Lunch


1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Room 1307

BDSY Student Poster Session


1:45 PM – 3:30 PM | Room 1327

BDSY Student Presentations


3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Break


4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Room 1327

Keynote Lecture & Conversation
Peter Clardy, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care physician
Lead, Clinical Enterprise Team, Google Health


6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Dinner & Celebration (by invitation only)
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Professional Development Day

  • Irina Degtiar, PhD

    Mathematica

    Statistician

  • Jay Emerson, PhD

    Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University

    Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Adjunct; Co-Director of Graduate Studies

  • Terika McCall, PhD

    Yale School of Public Health

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)

  • Robert McDougal, PhD

    Yale School of Public Health

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

  • Tsung-Ting Kuo, PhD

    Yale School of Medicine

    Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and Surgery

2025 Professional Development Schedule

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Room 1307

Arrival


9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Room 1307

Breakfast Career Chat
Irina Degtiar, PhD
, Mathematica
Jacob Wallace, PhD, Yale School of Public Health


10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Room 1327

Transportability in Causal Inference
Irina Degtiar, PhD

Mathematica


10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Room 1327

LinkedIn Profiles and Networking
Jackson Higginbottom, MPH


11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Room 1327

Biostatistics Graduate Student Panel
Yue Hu, Melody Owen, Ruyi Liu


12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Room 1307

Lunch


1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Room 1327

Statistics Admissions Panel
Jay Emerson, PhD
Statistics Graduate Students


2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Room 1327

Health Informatics and CBB Admissions Panel
Terika McCall, Robert McDougal, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Amber Tran, Kriti Agrawal, Deep Patel


2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Room 1327

Program Evaluations


3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Room 1327

Concluding Ceremony, Presentation of Certificate of Completion & Journey Lecture
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD

BDSY Director

Questions?

Contact the BDSY Team at bdsy.ysph@yale.edu