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BMI students win 40% of 2023 ASA SGG student paper awards

BMI graduate students, Kwangmoon Park (3rd year with Sunduz Keles) and Soham Ghosh (2nd year with Guanhua Chen) won two of the five 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper Awards.

Both students will present their papers at JSM and will receive their awards at the SGG business meeting. Kwangmoon will also present his work at ENAR.

Kwangmoon's paper is titled "Joint tensor analysis of single cell 3D genome and epigentic data with muscle," based on work supervised by Sunduz Keles.

Soham's paper is titled "A flexible generative model based knockoff filter for selecting microbial biomarkers with FDR control," and is based on work supervised by Guanhua Chen and Zhengzheng Tang.

Congratulations to both students and to their advisors!

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The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics (BMI) is the home of data science for the  University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health (UW SMPH), an academic medical center. BMI is a leading research hub and training center for biomedical data sciences, including biostatistics and biomedical informatics. BMI investigators are engaged in basic discovery science, clinical trials, image analysis, genomics, computational biology, and population studies, and they advance research throughout the SMPH. This research is often multi-faceted and collaborative, and faculty have joint or affiliate appointments with many other campus units: Statistics, Computer Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Morgridge Institute for Research, and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

BMI faculty and research staff provide consultation and collaboration in the planning, design, conduct, and analysis of basic, translational, and clinical research.

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