AZ Activities

Invited Talk

WNAR 2024, Jun 11, 2024, Fort Colins, Colorado
A Graph Neural Network Approach to Integrate Multimodal Brain Imaging

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Virtual, December 28, 2023.
Revealing connectomics development and its effect on Cognition By Leveraging Multimodal brain imaging and genetics

WNAR 2023, Jun 19, 2023, Anchorage, Alaska
A Highdimensional multiexposure mediation model to unravel brain structure-functional interactions

School of Data Science at University of Virginia, March 24, 2023, Charlottesville, VA
Study Brain Functional Connectivity Development In Adolescence Using Graphical Models

ENAR 2023, March 21, 2023, Nashville, TN
A Highdimensional multiexposure mediation model to unravel brain structure-functional interactions

ImgFun workshop at Colorado University Biostatistics, Virtual Presentation, Mar 16, 2023
A Joint Directed Acyclic Graph Estimation Model to Detect Aberrant Brain Connectivity in Schizophrenia

Department of Statistics at University of Kentucky, Oct 28, 2022, Lexington, KY
A Joint Directed Acyclic Graph Estimation Model to Detect Aberrant Brain Connectivity in Schizophrenia

D2K at Rice University, Jan 12, 2021, Virtual Presentation
Study Brain Functional Connectivity Using Graphical Models

Mental Health Data Science at Coulumbia University, Jan 8, 2021, Virtual Presentation
Study Brain Functional Connectivity Development in Adolescence Using Graphical Models

The Cole Neurocognition Lab at Rutgers University, Nov 23, 2020, Virtual Presentation
Study Brain Functional Connectivity Using Graphical Models

Conference Presentations

Med-Neurips 2023

Dec 16th, 2023

Poster presentation
"Exploring General Intelligence via Gated Graph Transformer in Functional Connectivity Studies"

OHBM 2022

Virtual

Poster presentation
"Decoding Age-specific Changes in Brain Functional Connectivity Using a Sliding-window Based Clustering Method"

Poster Presentations at Symposiums

New Advances in Statistics and Data Science 2022

9th Annual Thomas R Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health

OHBM 2020

Virtual

Poster presentation
"Causal Functional Brain Network: An Advanced Approach to Study Brain Cognitive Variance"

JSM 2020

Virtual

Poster presentation
"A Bayesian Incorporated Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Model (BiLiNGAM) for Multiple Directed Acyclic Graph Estimation with application to causal brain connectivity using fMRI"

SPIE Medical Imaging 2020

Feb 17th
Houston, TX, USA

Poster presentation
"Causal brain network in schizophrenia by a two-step Bayesian network analysis"

SPIE Medical Imaging 2019

Feb 18th
San Diego, CA, USA

Oral presentation
"Joint Gaussian copula model for mixed data with application to imaging epigenetics study of schizophrenia"

IEEE ISBI 2018

Apr 5th
Washington, D.C., USA

Poster presentation
"High dimensional latent Gaussian copula model for mixed data in imaging genetics"
IEEE ISBI Daily, page 18

SPIE Medical Imaging 2018

Feb 14th
Houston, TX, USA

Oral presentation
"Tracking the development of brain connectivity in adolescence through a fast Bayesian integrative method"

OHBM 2017

June 28th
Vancouver, BC, CA

Poster presentation
"Discovery of aberrant brain connectivity networks associated with Schizophrenia using a highdimensional Gaussian Graphical Model"

Student Presentations

2024 UVA Brain Symposium

May 22nd
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Poster presentation by Kurt Ji
Unlocking the Secrets of Heritability and How Genes Influence Brain Structure and Function

SIEDS 2024

May 3rd
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Oral presentation by Dongyuan Mutu
Associations Between Brain Connectivity and Psychiatric Symptoms in Children: Insights into Adolescent Mental Health