Keynote I
Wendy J. Nilsen
Deputy Division Director at NSF
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Short Biography:
Wendy Nilsen is the Deputy Division Director for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS). Wendy has been widely recognized across the Federal government as a leader in health technology research. She has long led the Smart Health program, and in that role leads a coalition involving seven NSF divisions across four directorates, as well as twenty-three NIH Institutes and Centers. She has continuously evolved that program to seize new intellectual opportunities, while addressing important societal considerations. She has also long led what is now called the National Information Technology Research and Development's (NITRD) Digital Health Research and Development Interagency Working Group, and in that role led the drafting of the Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework. Prior to becoming the Deputy Division Director in IIS, she previously served as Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Industrial Innovations and Partnerships and as Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Engineering and Education Centers in the Directorate for Engineering. Prior to joining NSF, she was a Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health.
Keynote II
Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Short Biography:
Xihong Lin, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (SPH), and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. She earned her BS in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in China, and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2023. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Statistical Institute. She is the former Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), and a former member of the Committee of Applied and Theoretical Statistics of NAS. She is the founding chair of the US Biostatistics Department Chair Group, and the former Coordinating Editor of Biometrics and the founding Co-Editor of Statistics in Biosciences. Dr. Lin is the recipient of the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association (2002), the COPSS Presidents' Award (2006) and FN David Award (2017). She was recognized by the University of Washington as one of the 50 Changemakers in Public Health in 2020. She received the Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research from the National Institute of Statistical Science (2022), the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award (2022) from Harvard SPH, and the MERIT Award (2007-2015) and the Outstanding Investigator Award (2015-2029) from the National Cancer Institute.
