Presentation

Selected Talks

• ImmGenT-GP: Understanding T Cells Through Gene Programs
  Guest Symposium talk, IMMUNOLOGY2026™ (American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting), Boston, USA, 2026.
• Gaussian Processes, Integrated Wiener Processes and Overlapping Splines, Part III: Approximating the Gaussian Process, Stochastic Seasonality and Near-Monotone Processes
  Invited talk, BIRS Workshop: Mathematical Foundations of Functional Data Analysis, Granada, Spain, 2026.
• Detecting Latent Gene–Environment Interaction When Analyzing Binary Traits
  Invited talk, BIRS Workshop: Statistical, Computational, Translational, & Ethical Challenges in Biobank Data Analysis, Banff, Canada, 2024.
• Model-based Smoothing with Integrated Wiener Processes and Overlapping Splines
  Contributed talk, Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Toronto, Canada, 2023.
• Bayesian Smoothing and Inference of Derivatives through Integrated Wiener Processes
  Contributed talk, Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 2023.

Selected Poster Presentations

• Empirical Bayes Shrinkage of Functional Effects, with Application to Analysis of Dynamic eQTLs
  ISBA World Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, 2026 (ISBA Junior Researcher Travel Award)
• Unveiling Quasi-Periodic Patterns: A Seasonal Gaussian Process Approach in a Bayesian Hierarchical Framework
  ISBA World Meeting, Venice, Italy, 2024 (ISBA Junior Researcher Travel Award)
• Exploiting Latent Gene–Environment Interaction in the Analysis of Binary Traits
  American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ASHG), Washington, DC, USA, 2023
• The Hidden Factor: The Importance of Accounting for Covariate Effects in Power and Sample Size Computation When Analyzing a Binary Trait
  American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ASHG), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2022
• Power and Sample Size Computation for Association Analysis of a Binary Trait: Accounting for Covariate Effects
  International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 2022
• Bayesian Inference for Cox Proportional Hazard Models with Partial Likelihoods, Semiparametric Covariate Effects and Correlated Observations
  ISBA World Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2022
• Genetic Association Analysis of a Binary Trait Detects More Than Just the Genetic Effect: Implications for Pleiotropy and Replication Studies
  American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (ASHG), Virtual, 2021 (Reviewer Choice Award)