Talks and Short Courses

Upcoming and recent short courses and talks. Teaching materials are on GitHub, and the full list is in the CV.

Upcoming

October 23, 2026: Bayesian Multimodal AI for Scalable Biomedical Discovery
Biostatistics Research Seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Invited talk
November 2–6, 2026: Causal AI Methods for Computational Biology
Physalia Courses, Online
Short course
Nov 30–Dec 4, 2026: Bayesian Methods for Biomedical Data Science
Physalia Courses, Online
Short course
December 2026: Deep Learning for Biological Data
Inserm
Short course · Joint with Jatin Chaudhary
March 2027: Multimodal Integration and Multimodal Causal Inference using R/Bioconductor
ENAR 2027 Short Course
Short course

Short Courses

July 6, 2026: Multimodal Integration and Multimodal Causal Inference using R/Bioconductor
ISMB 2026 Tutorial VT4, Virtual
Joint with Saptarshi Roy and Sreya Sarkar
June 1–2, 2026: Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor
EuroBioC 2026 Pre-conference Workshop, Turku, Finland
Joint with Leo Lahti, Thomaz Bastiaanssen, Tuomas Borman, Anna Kaisanlahti and Giulio Benedetti
April 27–29, 2026: Statistical Methods for Metatranscriptomics
Physalia Courses, Online
March 2–6, 2026: Multimodal AI for Systems Biology
Physalia Courses, Online
June 14, 2025: Multimodal Causal Inference for Data Science and Biomedical Research
International Indian Statistical Association Conference, Lincoln, NE
March 24, 2025: Statistical Methods for Biomarker Discovery Using Metabolomics
ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting Tutorial, New Orleans, LA
Joint with Ali Rahnavard
December 29, 2024: Omics Data Science Workshop
International Indian Statistical Association Conference, Kochi, Kerala, India
August 8, 2023: Orchestrating Biomarker Discovery and Pathway Enrichment using Multi-omics Integration and Data Science
Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, ON, Canada
Joint with Ali Rahnavard
February 7, 2022: Omics Data Workshop
SDSU Data Science Symposium, Brookings, SD
Joint with Ali Rahnavard
September 12, 2021: Biomarker Discovery and Pathway Enrichment Analysis of Omics Data
ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Virtual
Joint with Ali Rahnavard
March 26, 2021: Omics Data Science Workshop: Downstream
The George Washington University, Virtual
Joint with Ali Rahnavard

Keynotes

May 2026: Foundation Models for Microbial Community Multiomics
Bioinformatics Day, Finnish Society for Bioinformatics, Espoo, Finland
December 2025: Multimodal AI for Microbiome Multiomics
Nebraska Microbiome Research Group Fall 2025 Mini Summit, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
March 2023: Integrated Machine Learning for Multi-omics Prediction and Classification
2023 International Conference on Technology, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, University of Al-Qadisiyyah, Al Diwaniyah, Iraq
June 2021: Tweedieverse: A Single Home for Microbiome Multi-omics Differential Analysis
2021 BVCN Conference, Bioinformatics Virtual Coordination Network
May 2020: The Reciprocal Bayesian LASSO
2020 International Virtual Conference on Statistics, University of Al-Qadisiyyah, Al Diwaniyah, Iraq

Invited Talks

Recent invited talks. Full list is here.

August 2026: Multimodal AI for Scalable Biomedical Discovery
National Institute of Research and Innovation, Riga, Latvia
August 2026: Foundation Models for Microbial Community Metabolomics
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
August 2026: Multi-omics Data Integration with Bioconductor
Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series
Invited tutorial
July 2026: Meta-Analytic Microbiome Target Discovery for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response in Advanced Melanoma
Research Spotlight Speaker, WCM Biostatistics Internship Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Invited guest lecture
June 2026: Causal Reasoning for Responsible AI
Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Future Program, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Invited guest lecture
June 2026: Scalable Multimodal AI for Cancer Microbiome Epidemiology
NCI Virtual Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Cancer Epidemiology
January 2026: Meta-analytic Microbiome Target Discovery for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response in Advanced Melanoma
WCM Meyer Cancer Center, Cancer Genetics and Control Research Program Meeting, New York, NY
July 2025: Orchestrating Microbiome Multi-omics Integration and Analysis
Biodesign Center for Health Through Microbiomes, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
July 2025: Scalable, Uncertainty-aware, Interpretable Multimodal AI
Turku Data Science Group, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
June 2025: An Integrated Bayesian Framework for Multi-omics Prediction and Classification
Bayesian BioPharm Meeting, Los Angeles, CA