About this Class

The Zoom link for the Educational Webinar will be sent to you via email on February 14, 2024.

Join FAES for a dynamic and inspiring celebration of data science during International Love Data Week (Feb 12-16, 2024). Learn about the crucial role of data science and its expanding influence in the research arena. This 30-minute webinar will delve into the exciting world of data science in biomedical research through example projects that are easily accessible to learners from any computational background. FAES bioinformatics faculty members, Dr. Yuan-Chiao Lu and Kiersten Campbell, will demonstrate the transformative impact of data science skills in biomedical research and provide essential resources to begin your data science adventure.

Dr. Yuan-Chiao Lu (is a distinguished scientist in the academic field of injury biomechanics, computer-aided design, medical image processing, and data science and faculty at FAES where he teaches BIOF 475, MATH 215, MATH 216, and STAT 323. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and has expertise in applied mathematics, statistics, biomechanics, and data science.

Kiersten Campbell is a graduate student in the Computer Science & Informatics Ph.D. program at Emory University and faculty at FAES where she teaches BIOF 475. Her research interests center around developing new analysis methods and software tools for next-generation sequencing data to empower biomedical discoveries.

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