Professor Kathryn Roeder is the next speaker in the CANSSI Ontario STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (STAGE ISSS).

Kathryn Roeder is the UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences in the Departments of Statistics and Data Science and Computational Biology. Dr. Roeder has developed statistical and machine learning methods in a wide spectrum of areas, including high dimensional data problems in genetics. Her work focuses on statistical methods to reveal the genetic basis of complex disease. She is one of the leaders of the Autism Sequencing Consortium, an international organization dedicated to discovering the genetic etiology of autism. She received the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents’ Award (1997), Snedecor Award for outstanding work in statistical applications (1997) and Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (2020). She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and AAAS. In 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Seminars are generally held on the first Friday of every month, October to May, 12-1 pm ET.

See here for more details and a complete schedule for STAGE ISSS events.