The 3rd Stat4Onc Annual Symposium
Welcome remarks Speaker
Biography
Robin Cote, Ph.D.
Bio:
Robin Côté became associate
dean for physical sciences after serving as associate head of the Department of
Physics from 2014 to 2016. He earned his BS in physics from Université du
Québec à Rimouski (QC, Canada), his MS in physics from Laval University (QC,
Canada), and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before
arriving at UConn in 1999, he was an ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His most recent research includes
understanding and controlling long-range interactions in ultracold systems for
applications in quantum information science, ultracold chemistry, Rydberg
physics, and few and many-body phenomena.
Larry Klobutcher, Ph.D.
Bio:
Dr. Klobutcher is a professor
in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at UConn Health as well
as the Assistant Dean for Research Coordination and Planning. He joined UConn
Health in 1984 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry.
Prior to joining UConn Health, Dr. Klobutcher completed his graduate studies in
human genetics at Yale University and postdoctoral work in molecular biology at
the University of Colorado. His research has focused on genome organization and
programmed reorganization in ciliated protozoa, including work on telomeres and
transposable elements.
Dacheng Liu, Ph.D.
Bio:
Dr. Dacheng Liu is the US head
of statistics of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. He received his Ph.D. in
statistics from Florida State University in 2003, and was a research fellow
focusing on viral dynamics at University of Rochester before joining BI in
2005. Over his tenure at BI, he was trial and project statistician of clinical
development programs in multiple disease areas. He currently leads the BI
statistics team responsible for early and late phase developments in various
disease areas including oncology, central nervous system, respiratory,
metabolic/cardiovascular, and inflammatory diseases. His group also covers real
world data analytics and non-clinical statistics. Dr. Liu has over 50
publications in clinical trials, statistical methodology and machine learning. He
is an active member of several industry working groups.