2024 Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences: Susan Holmes – May 22 and May 23, 2024

Session Description

Join CANSSI Ontario for this year’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences with: Susan Holmes, Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.

Susan Holmes has been working in non parametric multivariate statistics applied to Biology since 1985. She started her research career in France at the INRAE institute in Montpellier. She has taught at MIT, Harvard and was an Associate Professor of Biometry at Cornell before moving to Stanford in 1998. She likes working on big messy data sets, mostly from the areas of Immunology, Cancer Biology and Microbial Ecology and her group developed the popular Bioconductor packages phyloseq and dada2 for microbiome data analyses.

Professor Holmes has co-authored an open access book with Wolfgang Huber (EMBL) published by Cambridge University Press on Modern Statistics for Modern Biology based on a popular course she teaches at Stanford. Her work is funded by the NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Her theoretical interests include applied probability, MCMC (Monte Carlo Markov chains), Graph Limit Theory, Differential Geometry and the topology of the space of Phylogenetic Trees.