[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.
[Nov 15, 2023] Wenbo was invited to give a webinar talk about design-based provider profiling on Jan 17, 2024, sponsored by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
[Nov 2, 2023] The video recording of my talk at the Yale School of Public Health Biostatistics Seminar on Oct 31, 2023 is available here.
[Nov 1, 2023] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Personalized Assignment to One of Many Treatment Arms via Regularized and Clustered Joint Assignment Forests" was released on ArXiv.
[Oct 23, 2023] Wenbo will co-chair a committee with Iván Díaz to organize the 2025 American Statistical Association Lifetime Data Science Conference in New York City.
[Sep 26, 2023] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Leveraging Neural Networks to Profile Health Care Providers with Application to Medicare Claims" was released on ArXiv.
[Aug 3, 2023] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Natural Language Processing to Identify Social Determinants of Health in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia from Electronic Health Records" was published in Health Services Research.
[Jul 28, 2023] Wenbo was invited to speak at the Yale School of Public Health Biostatistics Seminar on Oct 31, 2023 about his recent work on design-based provider profiling.
[Jul 27, 2023] Wenbo was invited to speak at the Emory University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar on Nov 9, 2023 about his recent work on design-based provider profiling.
[Jul 20, 2023] Wenbo was awarded a pilot grant from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Department of Population Health Section for Health Equity to develop equity-driven provider profiling methods for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
[Jul 10, 2023] Wenbo was awarded a grant from the Alzheimer's Association (AARG231077773) to develop data science methods for provider profiling, with Mara McAdams-DeMarco and Krzysztof Geras as Co-PIs.
[Jul 5, 2023] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Using Information Criteria to Select Smoothing Parameters when Analyzing Survival Data with Time-Varying Coefficient Hazard Models" was published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research.
[Jan 23, 2023] Wenbo was invited to speak at the 6th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2023) on Aug 3, 2023 about his recent work on bivariate varying coefficient modeling.