Xihong Lin

@XihongLin

Professor of @HarvardBiostats & @HarvardStats, (Bio)statistics,Data Science,Genetics Genomics,Epidemiology,Health, Education,COVID19 analysis,Views are all mine

Boston, MA

hsph.harvard.edu/xihong-lin/

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Xihong Lin
@XihongLin
Aug 12
2026 Harvard PQG Conference: Unleashing the Power of Integrated Multimodal Genomic and Health Data, Oct 29-30, 2026 Session 1: Multi-modal Genomics Data Session 2: Multi-modal Health Data Session 3: Multimodal AI Systems: Scalable & Trustworthy Integration
Conference of the Program in Quantitative Genomics | Program in Quantitative Genomics | Harvard...
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Xihong Lin
@XihongLin
Mar 8
Our review article on harnessing synthetic data from generative AI for statistical inference. We discuss generative models for synthetic data & their principled use for valid downstream statistical inference, esp when generative models are misspecified. arxiv.org/abs/2603.05396.
arxiv.org
Harnessing Synthetic Data from Generative AI for Statistical Inference
The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new...
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Xihong Lin
@XihongLin
Mar 7
GATE-STAAR: Rare variant association tests for survival analysis of time-to-event phenotypes, e.g., age at diagnosis in the UK biobank. It fits frailty models by incorporating variant functional annotations and accouning for relatedness, and ancestry PCs
pnas.org
Scalable and accurate rare-variant association tests for whole genome sequencing time-to-event...
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies in large biobanks provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the rare-variant (RV) effects on the natural ...
Xihong Lin
@XihongLin
Feb 18
Our cellSTAAR method incorporates single-cell-sequencing-based cell type specific functional annotations to boost the power in rare variant association testing of noncoding regions in large scale Whole Genome Sequencing Studies
cellSTAAR: incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare...
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Xihong Lin
@XihongLin
Feb 17
Arthur P. Dempster Obituary | Department of Statistics
Arthur P. Dempster Obituary | Department of Statistics
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