Primary Faculty

Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research

Jean Feng, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Machine learning, Statistical computing, High-dimensional data

Efstathios (Stathis) D. Gennatas, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Neuroscience, neuroimaging, brain development, neurodegenerative disease, neurology, psychiatry, oncology; applied health data science for basic biomedical research and clinical applications; Machine learning research for precision medicine: multimodal data analysis, interpretability, trustworthiness, fairness in predictive modeling, data science and visualization software development

David V. Glidden, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- HIV treatment, HIV prevention, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, Biostatistics, Survival analysis, Competing risks, Multiple events, Causal Inference, Clinical trials, LGBT health


Thomas Hoffmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Biostatistics, public health, human genetics, statistical genetics, high-dimensional data, statistical computing, machine learning, image classification, age-related hearing impairment, cardiovascular disease, cancer

Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Social Epidemiology
- Computational epidemiology, health disparities, natural language processing, social media, structural racism, social determinants of health, digital interventions, digital phenotyping, algorithmic bias, societal health

Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- General biostatistics methodology and its application to the biomedical sciences

Fei Jiang, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- machine learning methods; high dimensional models; functional data analysis and their applications in analyzing neurological, image, genetics data; adaptive randomization clinical trials


John Kornak, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian image analysis in Fourier Space, Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging, statistical image analysis, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics


Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Epidemiology

Aaron Scheffler, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- high-dimensional data, multi-modal data, correlated data, longitudinal data, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, brain imaging, analysis of electronic health records data, "Big Data"


Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- Machine Learning
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Integrative Genomics, Metabolomics, Statistical Genetics, Minority Health, Neonatology, Respiratory Outcomes

Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- developing statistical methods in causal inference; causal mediation analysis; cluster randomized trials/stepped wedge trials to solve health research problems, including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's related disorders, HIV, and COVID-19.
Secondary Faculty

John Boscardin, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Aging

Jing Cheng, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Statistical methods for complex problems in randomized trials and observational studies, dentistry and oral diseases, biomedicine, cancer, infectious diseases, pharmacogenomics, nursing, and public policy research.

Kevin Delucchi, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Biostatistics, longitudinal research, drug abuse, smoking cessation, alcohol abuse, psychometrics, latent variable methods, clinical trials


Karla Lindquist, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods, Cancer Genomics


Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
