Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health
Talks:

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 9 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 July 2025

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 10 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: Equity in clinical trial partnerships
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 July 2025

Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth
Date: 16 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Ramina Sotoudeh (Yale University)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 July 2025

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 30 July 2025

Reproducing Expert Judgement with Shortened Surveys using Simulated Annealing
Date: 30 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Klint (Kanopka)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 August 2025

The relative value of prediction
Date: 13 August 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Juan Carlos Perdomo (Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 August 2025

Behavioral Machine Learning
Date: 27 August 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Keyon Vafa (Harvard Data Science Initiative)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
Date: 8 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
Venue Details: Kindly register to our mailing list to receive the Teams invitation!
Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)