Invited Presentations

  1. “Statistical methods for finding cytometric markers associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” Invited Talk at the Annual Conference of International Indian Statistical Association, Bengaluru, India (December, 2022).

  2. “Kernel-based methods for statistical analysis of Mass Cytometry Data” Invited Talk, Departmental Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University (October 2021).

  3. “Compositional Data Analysis using Kernels in Mass Cytometry Data” Invited Talk at WNAR (Western North American Region of International Biometric Society) annual meeting, Virtual conference (June 2021).

  4. “Kernel Distance Covariance Approach for Testing Association in Longitudinal Studies” Invited Talk at the Annual Conference of International Indian Statistical Association, Virtual conference (May, 2021).

  5. “Testing abundance of cell populations in high-dimensional mass cytometry data” Invited Talk, Online Statistics Seminar, University of Arkansas, AR (November 2020).

  6. “Quantifying association in large biological data sets” Invited Talk, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India (January 2020).

  7. “Control of False Discoveries in Grouped Hypothesis Testing for eQTL Data”
    Invited Talk, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, OK (October 2019).

  8. “Bayesian networks in integrative genomics: An example with a recombinant inbred mouse panel”
    Invited Talk, Department of Integrative Genomics, Oklahoma State University, OK (September 2019).

  9. “Control of False Discoveries in Grouped Hypothesis Testing for eQTL Data”
    Invited Talk, WNAR (Western North American Region of International Biometric Society) annual meeting, Portalnd, OR (June 2019).

  10. “Simulation of Cross-phenotypic Effects of Rare Variants Across Time”
    Invited Talk, Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting 2018, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2018).

Other presentations

  1. “Statistical learning with high-dimensional mass cytometry data”
    Contributed poster presentation, Annual Conference of International Indian Statistical Association, Mumbai, India (December 2019).

  2. “Statistical learning with high-dimensional mass cytometry data”
    Contributed poster presentation, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Big Island, HI (January 2019).

  3. “Control of False Discoveries in Grouped Hypothesis Testing for eQTL Data”
    Contributed poster presentation, International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures, Riverside, CA (June 2017).

  4. “Predisposition to Alcohol Related Phenotypes Mediated by microRNA Expression”
    Contributed poster presentation, Research Society of Alcoholism Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (June 2017).

  5. “Controlling False Discovery Rate for Grouped and Hierarchical Hypothesis Testing: Recent Advancements”
    Statistical Genomics Working Group, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, CO (May 2017).

  6. “Predisposition to Alcohol Related Phenotypes Mediated by microRNA Expression”
    Contributed Talk, Bioinformatics Journal Club, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, CO (January 2017).

  7. “A microRNA eQTL study in a panel of recombinant inbred mouse strains”
    Contributed poster presentation, National Institute on Drug Abuse Genetics Consortium Meeting, Rockville, MD (December 2016).

  8. “A microRNA eQTL study in a panel of recombinant inbred mouse strains”
    Contributed poster presentation, Research Society of Alcoholism Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (June 2016).

  9. “Studying the genetics of microRNA expression for alcohol related traits”
    Contributed poster presentation, International Conference on Quantitative Genetics, Madison, WI (June 2016).

  10. “Model-based Heritability Scores for High-throughput Sequencing Data”
    Contributed Talk, ASA CO/WY Chapter Spring Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (April 2016).

  11. “Measuring and Testing Heritability”
    Contributed Talk, Bioinformatics Journal Club, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, CO (March 2016).

  12. “Effect of Stroke Prevention Medication on Aortic Atheroma Progression”
    Contributed poster presentation, The Butcher Symposium, Westminster, CO (November 2015).

  13. “A Procedure to Detect General Association Based on Concentration of Ranks”
    Invited talk, SAMSI, NC (February 2015).

  14. “A Procedure to Detect General Association Based on Distance of Ranks”
    Contributed poster presentation, JSM, Boston, MA (August 2014).