Rebecca Andridge, PhD             
University of Michigan, 2009             
Position: Associate Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests:  Developing and evaluating statistical methods for handling missing data and for group-randomized trials

Kellie J. Archer, PhD             
The Ohio State University, 2001             
Position: Chair and Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests:  Statistical methods for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomic assays, discrete and ordinal response modeling, statistical computing, supervised learning and data mining

Dena Asta, PhD             
Carnegie Mellon University, 2015             
Position: Assistant Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Geometric approaches to network inference and and non-parametric non-Euclidean methods

Guy Brock, PhD             
The University of New Mexico, 2003             
Position: Research Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics             
Research Interests: statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics, integrated analysis of miRNA-mRNA data, competing risks and multi-state models, and missing value estimation in microarray data.

Xiaoxuan Cai, PhD             
Yale University, 2020             
Position: Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics             
Research Interests: Statistical challenges and methodological problems in causal inference, missing data, mediation analysis, time series, and machine learning

Oksana Chkrebtii, PhD             
Simon Fraser University, 2013             
Position:  Associate Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Inference for differential equation models, uncertainty quantification, likelihood-free inference

Dongjun Chung, PhD             
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2012             
Position:  Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics              
Research interests: Development of statistical and computational methods for integrative analysis of genetic and genomic data with biomedical big data.

Elly Kaizar, PhD             
Carnegie Mellon University, 2006             
Position: Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Meta-analysis and research synthesis, Bayesian hierarchical modeling and analysis of sample surveys

Eben Kenah, PhD             
Harvard School of Public Health, 2008             
Position: Associate Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and casual inference

Laura Kubatko, PhD             
The Ohio State University, 1999             
Position: Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Statistical genetics, including phylogenetics, population genetics, and genetic linkage studies

Sebastian Kurtek, PhD             
Florida State University, 2012             
Position: Associate Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Statistical image analysis, statistical shape analysis, medical imaging, functional data analysis, computational statistics

Lang Li, Ph.D             
University of Michigan, 2001             
Position: Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics             
Research interests:  drug interaction and precision medicine; his lab uses biomedical informatics, systems pharmacology and statistical approaches to investigate drug interactions and genomics effects on drug efficacies and adverse drug events

Shili Lin, PhD             
University of Washington, 1993             
Position: Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests:  Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and bioinformatics

Bo Lu, PhD             
University of Pennsylvania, 2002             
Position: Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Causal inference, propensity score matching, missing data and survey sampling

Andy (Ai) Ni, PhD             
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2015             
Position: Assistant Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research Interests: High-dimensional variable selection with survival outcomes, Individualized treatment regimen estimation with survival outcomes; Outcome-dependent sampling designs; High-dimensional variable selection with measurement error

James Odei, Ph.D             
Utah State University, 2014             
Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research Interests:  Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal Statistics; environmental & ecological Statistics; Bayesian hierarchical modeling; statistical data   visualization; collaborative research in behavioral medicine, psychology, cancer, diabetes, and infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB, etc.)

Sally Paganin, PhD             
University of Padova, 2019             
Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics             
Research Interests: My research is at the intersection of applied, computational, and methodological statistics, motivated by the analysis of complex data. I have been mostly working on Bayesian modeling and methods, with a focus on Bayesian nonparametrics, models for latent variables, and model assessment.

Subhadeep Paul, PhD             
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2017              
Position: Assistant Professor, ASC Department of Statistics              
Research Interests: My research focuses on statistical inference in complex networks, including their multi-layer and dynamic variants. I aim to develop computationally feasible model based as well as spectral and matrix factorization based methods to analyze networks. I am also interested in the analysis of neuroimaging data obtained from both functional MRI and in-vivo Calcium imaging and much of my current research is motivated by such applications.

Michael Pennell, Ph.D             
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2006             
Position: Associate Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Design and analysis of group randomized trials, first hitting time models for survival analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, toxicological risk assessment

Grzegorz A. Rempala, D.Sc. Habilitatus              
Post-doctoral degree, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw,  Poland, 2007             
Position: Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Genomics, bioinformatics, mathematical statistics, mathematical epidemiology, classical probability theory, stochastic processes

Max Russo             
Position: Assistant Professor of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics             
 

Patrick Schnell, PhD             
University of Minnesota, 2017             
Position: Assistant Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Bayesian inference, clinical trials, treatment effect heterogeneity, simultaneous inference, and complex diseases.

Abigail Shoben, PhD             
University of Washington, 2010             
Position: Associate Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Group sequential methods, longitudinal data, epidemiologic applications, clinical trials

Jennifer Sinnott, PhD             
Harvard University, 2012             
Position: Associate Professor, ASC Department of Statistics

Fernanda Schumacher, PhD             
University of Campinas (Brazil), 2021             
Position: Assistant Professor, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research Interests: Robust models, models for censored data, longitudinal data, EM algorithm, and scale mixture of skew-normal distributions

Asuman Turkmen, PhD             
Auburn University, 2008             
Position: Associate Professor, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Robust statistics, outlier detection, dimension reduction and its applications in genome-wide association studies

Yuzi Zhang             
Emory University, 2023             
Position: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, College of Public Health             
Research interests: Environmental epidemiology, Capture-recapture methods for disease surveillance, Bayesian methods, Spatial-temporal modeling, Infectious disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Preterm birth

Emeritus Faculty

Jason Hsu, PhD             
Purdue University, 1977             
Position: Professor Emeritus, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Multiple comparisons and statistical computing

Stanley Lemeshow, Ph.D             
University of California, Los Angeles, 1976             
Position: Professor Emeritus, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests:  Genetics of PTEN in Cowden and related syndromes and familial cancer, genetic alterations in the epithelial and stromal compartment of prostate adenocarcinomas, innate immunity: elucidation and modulation cancer therapy, genetics of PTEN and molecular-based patient care, reducing cervical cancer in Appalachia, breast cancer prevention through nutrition, stress, aging and wound healing

H.N. Nagaraja, PhD             
Iowa State University, 1980             
Position: Professor Emeritus, CPH Division of Biostatistics             
Research interests: Order and record statistics, measuring agreement, stochastic modeling of biomedical data, biostatistical applications

Thomas Santner, PhD             
Purdue University, 1973             
Position: Professor Emeritus, ASC Department of Statistics             
Research interests: Computer experiments (with special emphasis on statistical applications in orthopedics), statistical applications in biomechanics and biomaterials

Elizabeth Stasny, PhD             
Carnegie Mellon University, 1983              
Position: Professor Emeritus, ASC Department of Statistics

Joe Verducci, PhD             
Stanford University, 1982             
Position: Professor Emeritus, ASC Department of Statistics