Primary Faculty
![Isabel Elaine Allen](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/isabel-elaine-allen.jpg?itok=nhQo5uhV)
Isabel Elaine Allen, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Analytics & Data Visualization, Meta-analysis & synthesis research, Clinical Research Design & Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, big data, data analysis, data display, data science, data visualization, machine learning, patient-generated health data, patient-reported outcome measures
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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
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Jean Feng, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Machine learning, Statistical computing, High-dimensional data
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Efstathios (Stathis) D. Gennatas, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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
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David V. Glidden, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
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
![Joan Hilton, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Joan%20Hilton.jpg?itok=xrCrOEwB)
![Thomas Hoffmann](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/thomas-hoffmann.jpg?itok=ey2Fhf6P)
Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer
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Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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
![](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/chiung-yu%20huang.jpg?itok=HFhku5nQ)
Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- General biostatistics methodology and its application to the biomedical sciences
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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
![](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Mi-Ok%20Kim-101%20%282%29.jpg?itok=Zy8Z5oeo)
![John Kornak, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/JohnKornak.jpg?itok=nJcN9wDe)
John Kornak, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian image analysis in Fourier Space, Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging, statistical image analysis, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics
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Chuck McCulloch, PhD, MS, MA
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Implementation Science
- Biostatistics, Implementation science, Study design, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Data Science, Longitudinal and clustered data, big data, data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, patient-reported outcome measures, International public health, P4P, Audit and feedback, mHealth
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John Neuhaus, PhD
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Aging
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Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Epidemiology
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Aaron Scheffler, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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"
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Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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
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Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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, secondary faculty at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/JohnBoscardin.jpg?itok=jwjYcDZL)
John Boscardin, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Aging
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Jing Cheng, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
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, secondary faculty member in Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/KevinDelucchi.jpg?itok=ySl_4jpx)
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
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Karla Lindquist, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods, Cancer Genomics
![Steven Paul, principal statistician at UCSF](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/StevenPaul.jpeg?itok=5pxZB_2T)