@roberta_devito

Statistician and data scientist. Assistant Professor @BrownBiostats @Brown_DSI

rdevito.github.io/web/
Joined February 2020
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🔬 Meet the Team: @roberta_devito 
Statistician and Assistant Professor at Sapienza and Adjunct Professor at Brown University. 
Her work focuses on genomics, epidemiology, cancer risk, latent variable models, Bayesian methods and ML for high-dimensional data.
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CCMB at Brown@BrownCCMB24 Nov 2025
CCMB is pleased to announce Julian Stamp's PhD defense on Monday, December 1st @ 1pm, entitled "Statistical and Computational Advances for Detecting Nonlinear Contributions to Complex Traits". Advisors: Lorin Crawford, PhD and Daniel Weinreich, PhD events.brown.edu/ccmb/event/…

CCMB Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Julian Stamp

“Statistical and Computational Advances for Detecting Nonlinear Contributions to Complex Traits” Advisors: Lorin Crawford, Ph.D. and Daniel...

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DSI Faculty @roberta_devito and Shekhar Pradhan are leaving Brown after years of service to DSI. We are so lucky to have had them as a part of our community, and we wish them great success and joy in their future endeavors! dsi.brown.edu/news/2025-06-1…

Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan

DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown. We are so lucky to have had them as a...

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Yesterday at DSI, we had our first poster session for the final projects of DATA 2020: Statistical Learning, taught by @roberta_devito. The students presented their projects to peers and to faculty judges. We'll have our second poster session for this class tomorrow at 10:30!
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DSI Postdoc @dafne_zorzetto will be giving a talk this afternoon at the #BAYSM2025 conference! “Multivariate Causal Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Air Pollution: a Bayesian Causal Regression Factor Model” baysm2025.github.io
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Announcing the Statistics Seminar & Charles K. Colver Lectureship Series Spring 2025 lineup! 🚨 Join us for an exciting roster of speakers and discussions on Mondays at noon! biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/…
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The registration is now open for the Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM) 2025 that will be held online from 7-11 April 2025. Conference website: baysm2025.github.io/
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Love Data Week starts today! More info ➡️ bit.ly/3A0CTMx
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Have you ever wondered why your body reacts differently to various viruses and diseases? Skylar Sargent Walters ’26, a computational biology concentrator at Brown, is developing a deep learning model to classify and discover unidentified bacteria and viruses.
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CCMB at Brown@BrownCCMB4 Nov 2024
Join our 11/6 Comp. Biology Seminar with Derek Aguiar, Associate Prof. of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut on "Deep statistical modeling of nanopore sequencing translocation times reveals latent non-B DNA structures." bit.ly/3Xk1xot
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Last Friday, DSI hosted a WiDS Providence conference, featuring experts from data science industry and academia. The event drew over 100 Brown students and community members. Thank you to everyone who attended and shared their work! @simocristea @harini824 @KarianneBergen
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Arman Oganisian, Ph.D., will be presenting at the @amstatnews #JSM2024 (Joint Statistical Meetings) in Portland, Oregon from August 3rd-8th, 2024! Session: Advances in Bayesian Methods for Evidence-based Health Policy
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Ying Ma, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, discusses her recent paper, early career awards, and big goals for the future. @BrownCCMB @BrownBiostats Spend “A minute with Ying Ma.” dsi.brown.edu/news/2024-07-1…

A minute with Ying Ma

Get to know Ying Ma, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Core Faculty at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB).

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Arman Oganisian (@StableMarkets) presenting "Bayesian Semiparametric Models for Sequential Treatment Regimes with Missing Time-Varying Covariates" at the #ISBA2024 World Meeting today, July 6th in Venice, Italy. @ISBA_events | @CaFoscari
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Roberta De Vito presented "Bayesian Multi-study Non Negative Matrix Factorization" at the #ISBA2024 World Meeting yesterday, July 2nd in Venice, Italy. @ISBA_events | @CaFoscari
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Each year, DSI awards a number of seed grants to researchers pursuing data science projects across the university. DSI recently announced the grantees of the 2024 Data Science Seed Grants @ Brown and celebrated the accomplishments of the 2023 grantees. dsi.brown.edu/news/2024-05-2…
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DSI students in @roberta_devito's Statistical Learning class gathered for an engaging poster session yesterday! The students spent the semester learning a variety of statistical methods and applying them to research projects on adolescent well-being, education, and achievement.
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j-ISBA@j_ISBA16 Apr 2024
The registration for the BAYSM 2024 meeting (June 29-30, in Venice) is now open! Register by May 10th to benefit from the early-bird fee: bayesian.org/civicrm/event/r… 1/n
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CCMB at Brown@BrownCCMB22 Apr 2024
Thank you to Luca Pinello @lucapinello for last week’s seminar! Hosted by Roberta De Vito @roberta_devito. @BrownBiostats @Brown_DSI
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Drop in to chat about Bayesian Methods and Causal Inference with Brown biostats faculty Arman Oganisian (@StableMarkets)!
Brown Data Science Institute@Brown_DSI18 Apr 2024
Data and Donuts this Friday! 🍩🤓 Join the Data Science DUG for donuts and a discussion with Dr. Arman Oganisian. 📍Data Science Institute, 3rd floor, Room 302 events.brown.edu/dsi/event/2…
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