Ruzong Fan, Ph.D., invited speaker on his research, “Functional Regression Models for Gene-based Association Studies of Complex Traits”

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(September 15, 2017) – This year, Ruzong Fan, Ph.D. gave ten invited talks and seminars about his research on “Functional Regression Models for Gene-based Association Studies of Complex Traits”.

Dr. Fan presented at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Baltimore, the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Conference with Focus on Lifetime Data in Jilin, China, and the ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Chicago.

Both in China and the US, Dr. Fan was an invited speaker at several academic institutions.  In China, he visited the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Yunnan University in Kunming, and Jilin University in Changchun.  In the US, Dr. Fan was a seminar speaker at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and University of Maryland, College Park (UMD).