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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Digital Biostatistics Marcos Matabuena’s research group

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Stay up to date with the latest news from our team, including research developments, publications, collaborations, awards, events, and other important milestones. Here, we share the activities and achievements shaping the growth of the Digital Biostatistics group.

Variable Selection for Fixed and Random Effects in Multilevel Functional Mixed-Effects Models

Our paper, “Variable Selection for Fixed and Random Effects in Multilevel Functional Mixed-Effects Models,” has been accepted in Statistics in Medicine. This work introduces the first variable-selection method for multilevel functional models. Congratulations to Rahul Ghosal, Enakshi Saha, and the whole team.

2026 Diabetes Technology Meeting

Marcos Matabuena will be an invited speaker at the 2026 Diabetes Technology Meeting, taking place in Washington, D.C., from October 27–29. At one of the world’s leading international conferences on diabetes technology, he will present innovative statistical and digital health methods developed by our research group using glucose data, and discuss their potential applications in diabetes research and clinical practice.