Harrison H. Zhou, PhD
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
Henry Ford II Professor
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.
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
Henry Ford II Professor
Yale School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Yale School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Google Health
Pulmonary and Critical Care physician; Lead of Clinical Enterprise Team
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
Mathematica
Statistician
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Adjunct; Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Yale School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Yale School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and Surgery
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
Contact the BDSY Team at bdsy.ysph@yale.edu