Research in HIV continues to generate highly complex data structures. Examples include genomic sequences (both host and virus); individual medical records, which include such complications as irregular measurement, missing data, and unstructured text fields; medical images; social network data; and aggregated ‘super cohorts’ such as those coordinated by the IeDEA and CNICS consortia. Even the design and analysis of randomized trials require innovative techniques to enable optimal use of data that can be expensive and labor-intensive to collect.
This symposium is designed to bring together statistical and data science researchers either working directly in the area of HIV or whose work has direct relevance to problems and data structures encountered in HIV research. We are particularly interested in engaging data science researchers in fields such as computer science, engineering, and applied mathematics, whose work in related areas might lead to innovative new approaches.
Participants will gather for focused activities related to dissemination of new methods, formation of new collaborations, extended discussion to identify new challenges, and engagement of junior investigators. Finally, owing to investments by NIH and other funding agencies, the number of HIV-focused statisticians and data scientists from low- and middle-income countries is growing. The symposium also is designed to promote continued engagement between statistical scientists from the ‘global north’ and ‘global south’.
- The symposium will feature invited talks and panels focused on HIV data science research and training.
- All sessions will be non-concurrent.
- Attendees are invited to present posters on development or application of statistical or data science methods that are relevant to HIV research
- Junior researchers are especially encouraged to attend, and can apply for funding to partially defray the cost of travel.
- Registration is Free
Confirmed Speakers
- Raji Balasubramanian, UMass Amherst
- David Benkeser, Emory University
- Tobias Chirwa, University of the Witwatersrand
- Rumi Chunara, NYU School of Public Health
- Forrest Crawford, Yale University
- Kayo Fujimoto, UTexas Health Science Center
- Misrak Gezmu, National Institutes of Health
- Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Harvard
- Sarah Lodi, Boston University
- Ann Mwangi, Moi University, Kenya
- Arman Oganisian, Brown University
- Bryan Shepherd, Vanderbilt University
- Ziv Shkedy, Hasselt University
- Jon Steingrimsson, Brown University
