[Dec 13, 2024] Iván Díaz and Wenbo are seeking a highly motivated postdoc to develop methods in causal inference, machine learning, NLP, foundation models/LLMs, non-/semi-parametric theory and methods (e.g., targeted and double/debiased ML), and data integration, with applications in population health and health care, disparities, outcomes, policy, and services research. To qualify, applicants should be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident with a doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, (bio)statistics, data science, operations research, or related fields before starting. More details on jobRxiv or at https://forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-jobs/entry/12108/.
[Nov 8, 2024] Wenbo will join the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Department of Biostatistics, the Center for Population Health Information Technology, and the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Section, starting on June 1, 2025.
[Sep 10, 2024] Wenbo was invited to give a talk titled "Bias in Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Extracting Social Factors in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias from Electronic Health Records" at the 2025 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics on Jan 7, 2025 in San Diego, California.
[Aug 21, 2024] On Sep 30, 2024, Wenbo will give the inaugural webinar talk titled "Data Science-Powered Provider Profiling for Equitable Quality Care in Alzheimer's and Dementia" for the American Statistical Association Statistics and Data Science Interest Group.
[Jul 22, 2024] Wenbo will serve as a Statistical Reviewer of NEJM Evidence.
[Jul 2, 2024] Wenbo was selected as a Butler-Williams Scholar by the National Institute on Aging.
[Apr 24, 2024] Wenbo will talk about "Natural Language Processing to Identify Social Determinants of Health in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia from Electronic Health Records" at the 2024 DahShu Data Science Symposium on May 16, 2024.
[Mar 29, 2024] Jiayi Cheng, a research fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business, will join NYU Center for Data Science in Sep 2024 as a PhD student working with Sommer Gentry, Iván Díaz, Krzysztof Geras, and Wenbo.
[Mar 5, 2024] Alec McClean, a PhD candidate in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, will join NYU Grossman School of Medicine in July 2024 as a postdoctoral research fellow working with Iván Díaz and Wenbo.
[Feb 2, 2024] Wenbo was invited to give an Alumni Spotlight talk at the University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics.
[Jan 11, 2024] The video recording of my talk at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Department of Population Health Research Seminar on Jan 10, 2024 is available here upon request.
[Jan 9, 2024] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Competing Risk Modeling with Bivariate Varying Coefficients to Understand the Dynamic Impact of COVID-19" was published in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.