Schedule for: 25w5474 - Emerging Statistical Methods for Digital Health Data

Beginning on Sunday, February 23 and ending Friday February 28, 2025

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, February 23
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering
Meet & Greet at BIRS Lounge (PDC 2nd Floor)
(Other (See Description))
Monday, February 24
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Opening Session (HYBRID)
Organizers introduce the purpose and structure of the event. Everyone briefly describes their research interests, data types, and major methodological challenges.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Vadim Zipunnikov: BIRS Placeholder to turn on cameras - DO NOT DELETE (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:45 Jessilyn Dunn: The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring (TCPL 201)
10:50 - 11:05 Jeff Goldsmith: Functional quantiles and related methods (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:25 Eric J. Daza: Discovering Your Own Health Behavior Causal Effects Using Wearables and Apps (Online)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:20 - 14:35 Aarti Sathyanarayana: Digital Phenotyping in Action: Methods and Applications in Women's Health, Mental Health, and Mobility Research (TCPL 201)
14:35 - 14:50 Debangan Dey: Multivariate Principal Component Analysis for Mixed-Type Functional Data with application to mHealth (Online)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:15 Mentor-Consultation Introduction
Introduce experienced mentors who will be available throughout the week to advise on scientific, methodological, or career challenges.
(TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 21:00 Game Night
Play some casual board/card games
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, February 25
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Panel Discussion (HYBRID)
Establishing and maintaining collaborations in digital and mobile health research
  • Samprit Banerjee
  • Min Qian
  • Stephanie Cook
  • (TCPL 201)
    10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
    10:30 - 10:45 Rahul Ghosal: Functional Time Transformation Model with Applications to Digital Health (TCPL 201)
    10:50 - 11:05 Erjia Cui: Functional Random Effects Inference with Applications to Accelerometry Data (TCPL 201)
    11:10 - 11:25 Haochang Shou: Harmonization of Longitudinal Physical Activity Intensity Measures from Multiple Sources (Online)
    11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
    Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    13:00 - 13:45 John Muschelli: [TUTORIAL] Processing accelerometer data in R (TCPL 201)
    14:00 - 14:45 Irina Gaynanova: [TUTORIAL] Processing CGM data in R (TCPL 201)
    15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
    15:30 - 15:45 Juned Siddique: Joint modeling the frequency and duration of accelerometer-measured physical activity from a lifestyle intervention trial (TCPL 201)
    15:50 - 16:05 Jingjing Zou: Multi-modal wearable device data analysis with self-supervised learning and functional data analysis (TCPL 201)
    16:15 - 17:00 Small group mentoring meetings
    Experienced faculty meet with early-career researchers in small groups
    (TCPL Lounge)
    17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
    A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    19:30 - 21:30 Social outing in Banff
    Location TBD
    (Other (See Description))
    Wednesday, February 26
    07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
    Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    09:00 - 10:00 Panel Discussion (HYBRID)
    Lessons Learned: Translating Digital Health Research into Practice
  • Nikolay Bliznyuk
  • Eric J. Daza
  • (TCPL 201)
    10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
    10:30 - 10:45 Jaroslaw Harezlak: Head Impact Measurements in American College Football players (TCPL 201)
    10:50 - 11:05 Emily Huang: Using a Quality-Controlled Dataset from ViSi Mobile Monitoring for Analyzing Posture Patterns of Hospitalized Patients (TCPL 201)
    11:10 - 11:25 Zhenke Wu: Some recent adventures in digital biomarkers from Apple SensorKit and digital health intervention design via reinforcement learning tools (TCPL 201)
    11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
    Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
    17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
    A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    Thursday, February 27
    07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
    Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    09:00 - 09:15 Walter Dempsey: Selective Inference for Time-Varying Effect Moderation (Online)
    09:20 - 09:35 Tianchen Qian: Causal inference and machine learning in mobile health --- modeling time-varying effects using longitudinal functional data (TCPL 201)
    09:40 - 09:55 Linda Valeri: Individual causal effect estimation in the presence of non-stationarity and missing data (TCPL 201)
    10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
    10:30 - 11:30 Community Building Workshop (HYBRID)
    Discuss how to sustain momentum after workshop and build out the mobile and wearable data science community. Potential discussion topics include: 1) Future meeting planning, 2) ASA Interest Group activities, 3) Communication, 4) Collaborative methods white paper
    (TCPL 201)
    11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
    Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    13:00 - 13:15 Emily Hector: Modeling massive physical activity monitor data through distributed inference (Online)
    13:20 - 13:35 Julian Wolfson: Combining passive mobile sensing and EMA data to understand the time burden of cancer treatment (TCPL 201)
    13:40 - 13:55 Katharina Schultebraucks: Integrating Digital Biomarkers and Large Language Models in Real-World Settings : How Digital Innovations and AI are Shaping the Future of Mental Health (TCPL 201)
    14:00 - 15:00 Synthesis & Next Steps (HYBRID)
    Set deadlines for initial collaborative follow-ups, outline a plan for at least one joint grant submission or joint publication in the coming months. Organizers and participants share final thoughts, commitments, and appreciation.
    (TCPL 201)
    15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
    15:30 - 17:30 Flex Time
    Open time to network and continue discussions.
    (TCPL Foyer)
    17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
    A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    19:30 - 21:30 Social outing in Banff
    Location TBD
    (Other (See Description))
    Friday, February 28
    07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
    Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
    (Vistas Dining Room)
    10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
    5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
    (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
    12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)