Opportunity for current undergraduate and masters students…

I am currently recruiting graduate students at both the Masters and PhD level.

If you are interested in pursuing either a Masters or PhD in Statistics, and are interested in any of the research topics that I work on, please reach out. Even if you have a somewhat non-traditional background, but think that you would be a good fit, please get in touch with me.

These are funded opportunities with a lot of flexibility for you to grow and learn as a Statistician. Do not hesitate to reach out!

Research Work, Presentations, Grants, and Awards

On this page is a (sometimes updated) list of my talks, publications, grants, awards, and so forth. These are sortable and filterable, and may be more pleasant to scroll through than my CV.

Beyond Randomized Response: Promoting Equity by Ensuring Privacy

Invited talk to be given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2025, Saskatoon).

Dylan Spicker

Improved subsample-and-aggregate via the private modified winsorized mean (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (May 2025). (Arxiv Preprint)

Kelly Ramsay and Dylan Spicker

CIHR - Team Grant

CIHR Team Grant for $2,200,000 over a five-year period.

R. Murray, S. Gould, P. Bhatti, S. Kirkparick, P. Awadalla, E. Bussin, A., Chan, A. Easterbrook, B. Lamarche, G. Menichetti, S. Neil-Sztramko, D. Spicker, S., Stringhini, E. Sweeney, M. Wallace

NSERC - Discovery Grant

NSERC DG award for $167,500 over a five-year period.

Dylan Spicker

Optimal dynamic treatment regime estimation in the presence of nonadherence

Published in Biometrics (June 2025). Open Access

Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Challenges for Predictive Modeling with Neural Network Techniques using Error-Prone Dietary Intake Data

Published in Statistics in Medicine (February 2025). (Open Access

February 8, 2025

Dylan Spicker, Amir Nazemi, Joy Hutchinson, Paul Fieguth, Sharon I Kirkpatrick, Michael Wallace, and Kevin W Dodd

Your Data are a Fingerprint: Why Anonymization is Not Anonymous and How Statistics Can Protect You.

Invited talk given at the CANSSI Atlantic Hybrid Seminar Series (2025, Online). (PDF of Slides)

January 31, 2025

Dylan Spicker

Enrichment of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health study: a protocol for administering multiple online dietary and movement behavior assessment tools

Submitted for consideration (January 2025).

January 1, 2025

Rachel A Murphy, Jennifer E Vena, Guy Faulkner, Alyssa D Milan, Ellen Sweeney, Leia M. Minaker, Charles E. Matthews, Dylan Spicker, Benoît Lamarche, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick

Multidimensional dietary patterns and their joint associations with intersecting sociodemographic characteristics among adults in Canada: a cross-sectional study

Submitted for consideration (December 2024). (MedRxiv)

December 12, 2024

Joy M. Hutchinson, Dylan Spicker, Benoît Lamarche, Michael P. Wallace, Mélina Coté, Abel Torress-Espin, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick

Differentially private outcome‐weighted learning for optimal dynamic treatment regime estimation

Published in Stat. (Open Access)

January 17, 2024

Dylan Spicker, Erica EM Moodie, Susan M Shortreed

Preserving patient privacy in dynamic treatment regimes: private outcome-weighted learning (PrOWL).

16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), (2023, Berlin). (PDF of Slides)

December 17, 2023

Dylan Spicker

Differentially private projection-depth-based medians (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (December 2023). (Arxiv Preprint)

December 12, 2023

Kelly Ramsay and Dylan Spicker

Addressing Modern Challenges to Truly Personalized Medicine.

Talk presented at the Research Institute in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Seminar, (2023, Fredericton). (PDF of Slides)

October 3, 2023

Dylan Spicker

Le secret statistique

Published in Accromath. (Open Access)

October 1, 2023

Dylan Spicker, Erica Moodie, Christian Genest

Nonparametric Simulation Extrapolation for Measurement Error Models

Published in the Canadian Journal of Statistics. (Open Access)

Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Preserving Patient Privacy in Dynamic Treatment Regimes.

Invited talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2023, Ottawa). (PDF of Slides)

Dylan Spicker

Infinite and Irregular: Covariate Driven Treatment Schedules for Dynamic Treatment Regimes

Invited talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2024, St. John’s). (PDF of Slides)

Dylan Spicker

New Brunswick Innovation Fund - Research Assistant Initiative

NBIF RAI award for $15,000 for a single term.

Dylan Spicker

New Frontiers Exploration Grant

NFE project grant for $250,000 over a two-year period.

Jon Sensinger, Koumari Mitra, Shelley Doucet, Colleen O’Connell Chris McGibbon, Erik Scheme, Dylan Spicker

New Brunswick Innovation Fund - Talent Recruiment Fund

NBIF TRF award for $55,000 over a two-year period.

Dylan Spicker

Nonadherence in Dynamic Treatment Regimes – Moving Beyond Intention-to-Treat Analyses.

Invited talk given for the McGill University Biostatistics Seminars (2022, Montreal). (PDF of Slides)

October 19, 2022

Dylan Spicker

StatLab-CANSSI-CRM Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral financing funded through CANSSI and StaLab CRM. 1 year of postdoctoral funding.

September 1, 2022

Dylan Spicker

Out-to-Innovate Research Fellowship

Out-to-innovate merit based research scholarship; $5000 USD value. Details.

September 1, 2022

Dylan Spicker

Nonparametric Simulation Extrapolation for Measurement Error Models.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2022, Digital Conference [Thanks, COVID]). (PDF of Slides)

Dylan Spicker

The Harms of Historical Hyperbole.

Talk given at the Statistics and Actuarial Sciences Student Seminar Series (SASSSS). (2021, Waterloo). (PDF of Slides. Note, these slides were originally presented as an interactive presentation, rather than PDF, so some is lost in translation. You can view the HTML presentation here.)

Dylan Spicker

Measurement Error Corrections with Non-IID Auxiliary Data.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2021, Digital Conference [Thanks, COVID]). (PDF of Slides)

Dylan Spicker

Generalizations to Corrections for the Effects of Measurement Error in Approximately Consistent Methodologies (Preprint)

Submitted for consideration (September 2021). (Arxiv Preprint)

Dylan Spicker, Michael P. Wallace, and Grace Y. Yi

Statistical Society of Canada SARGC Video Competition 2021.

Winning Team; Video competition, explaining the importance of statistics to a lay audience. Our video is available: ‘Using Statistics to break down COVID-19 misconceptions.’

Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Measurement error and precision medicine: Error‐prone tailoring covariates in dynamic treatment regimes.

Published in Statistics in Medicine (August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8690 (Arxiv Preprint)

Dylan Spicker and Michael Wallace

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS-D)

$21,000 / year; 3 years. Receive a competitive, 3 year award from NSERC, with added funds matched by department. Fully funded my PhD studies.

Dylan Spicker

OGS Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

$15,000/year; 1 year. Received a competitive, 1 year award through OGS.

Dylan Spicker

Statistical Society of Canada Case Studies in Data Analysis Competition 2020.

Winning Team; Case study competition for the SSC’s annual case study competition. Our project was titled: Forecasting iTunes popularity out-of-sample: in-sample validation for longitudinal and matching methods.

Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Measurement Error: A non-technical overview (where we mostly talk about video games!).

Talk given at the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference. (PDF of Slides)

September 28, 2019

Dylan Spicker

CANSSI National Case Study Competition 2019.

Regional Winning Team; National Finalist; Case study competition for CANSSI’s annual case study competition. Our project was titled: ’SuperLearn’ed Delays: Partial Domain Adaptation in Binary Classification with Complex and Noisy Data.

September 1, 2019

Dylan Spicker and Melissa Van Bussel

Measurement Error in Precision Medicine and Dynamic Treatment Regimes.

Talk given at the Statistical Society of Canada general meeting (2019, in Calgary). (PDF of Slides)

Dylan Spicker

OGS Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST).

$15,000/year; 1 year. Received a competitive, 1 year award through OGS.

Dylan Spicker