Biostatistics

Along with providing education and training, department of Biostatistics faculty and researchers have achieved national and international reputations for excellence in their respective fields of research and expertise. Short summaries of faculty are detailed below.

Department Chair

Trivellore Eachambadi Raghunathan, Ph.D.
Statistical analysis of incomplete data, multiple imputation, Bayesian inference, design and analysis of sample surveys, small area estimation, analysis of longitudinal data, confidentiality and disclosure limitation, cardiovascular epidemiology.

Core Faculty

	Goncalo Abecasis, D.Phil. Identification of genes involved in complex disease, with a special emphasis on developing analytical methods that help geneticists reap the full benefits of new high-throughput technologies.
	Mousumi Banerjee, Ph.D. Tree-structured regression and ensemble methods, survival analysis with competing risks, multilevel models, cancer epidemiology and health services research.
	Veronica Berrocal, Ph.D. Spatial, spatio-temporal, Bayesian and environmental statistics, as well as developing statistical methods to characterize environmental exposure and its relationship with health outcomes.
	Michael Boehnke, Ph.D. Design and analysis of human gene mapping studies of common multifactorial diseases, genome-wide association and sequencing studies, and genetics of type 2 diabetes and related traits, and bipolar disorder.
	Philip S. Boonstra, Ph.D. Shrinkage estimators, hierarchical models, and problems of measurement error. Cancer-related applications, including cancer epidemiology and cancer genetics/genomics.
	Thomas Braun, Ph.D. Bone marrow transplantation, periodontal disease, Bayesian Phase I trial designs, clinical trials, hierarchical models, longitudinal data.
	Michael R. Elliott, Ph.D. Design and analysis of sample surveys, causal modeling inference, and latent variable models for longitudinal data with applications to injury epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and social determinants of health.
	Brenda Gillespie, Ph.D. Applied biostatistics, particularly survival analysis, clinical trials, and applications of biostatistics to epidemiology.
	Hui Jiang, Ph.D. Bioinformatics, statistical genomics and computational statistics.
	Timothy D. Johnson, Ph.D. Statistical modeling of biomedical data. Bayesian and MCMC methodology with and emphasis on mixture models and variable parameter spaces. Applications in neurology, cancer, radiology and endocrinology.
	Hyun Min Kang, Ph.D. Genome-wide association mapping with next-generation sequencing data, population stratification in association studies, genetics-driven approach to drug discovery. Statistical and computational method development in genetics.
	Kelley M. Kidwell, Ph.D. Survival analysis, adaptive treatment strategies, and applications to cancer research.
	Sehee Kim, Ph.D. Joint modeling of longitudinal and recurrent event data, measurement error models, semiparametric regression models.
	James M. Lepkowski, Ph.D. Survey methodology, particularly sampling design and estimation, telephone sample design, handling unit and item nonresponse, variance estimation, analysis of complex sample survey data, and respondent-interviewer interaction in the survey process.
	Yi Li, Ph.D. High-dimensional data analysis with applications in genetics/genomics, survival analysis, longitudinal and correlated data analysis, measurement error problems, spatial models and clinical trial design.
	Yun Li, Ph.D. Methodology: Causal inference, missing data issues, Bayesian inference, surrogate data, intermediate outcome, mixed models, survival analysis, Applications: clinical trials, observational studies, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and liver and kidney disease.
	Roderick J.A. Little, Ph.D. Statistical analysis with missing data, inference from complex surveys, Bayesian methods, applications of statistics in epidemiology, neurology, cancer, social sciences.
	Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D. Studies of gene-environment interaction, Bayesian methods, statistical methods for case-control and other outcome dependent sampling schemes, applications in epidemiology.
	Susan Murray, Sc.D. Nonparametric survival analysis, missing data issues, quality of life research, group sequential monitoring of survival endpoints, correlated survival endpoints, pulmonary research.
	Bin Nan, Ph.D. Semiparametric regression models, survival analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, cohort studies, clinical trials.
	Robert Parker, Sc.D. Statistical work covers a broad range of topics related to improving the design and analysis of clinical research.
	Trivellore Eachambadi Raghunathan, Ph.D. Statistical analysis of incomplete data, multiple imputation, Bayesian inference, design and analysis of sample surveys, small area estimation, analysis of longitudinal data, confidentiality and disclosure limitation, cardiovascular epidemiology.
	Brisa N Sánchez, Ph.D. Methodology: structural equations, latent variable models, longitudinal & correlated data, study design, robustness; Applications: environmental epidemiology, health disparities, stroke, spatial analysis, neighborhood effects.
	Douglas E. Schaubel, Ph.D. Multivariate survival analysis, recurrent event data, dependent censoring.
	Laura Scott, Ph.D. Identification of genetic variants that increase risk of type II diabetes and bipolar disorder, complex diseases study design, use of biological information to evaluate of genetic associations, methods development for experimental data analysis.
	Peter X.K. Song, Ph.D. Longitudinal data analysis, missing data problems in clinical trials, statistical methods in bioinformatics and genetics, and time series analysis.
	Cathie Spino, Sc.D. Clinical trials methodology, particularly adaptive designs, and women's and children's health.
	Jeremy M G Taylor, Ph.D. Longitudinal and survival analysis, cure models, missing data, Box-Cox transformations, statistical methods for bioinformatics, surrogate and auxiliary variables, statistical modelling of biomedical data.
	Alexander Tsodikov, Ph.D. Multivariate semiparametric survival models, applications in cancer.
	Lu Wang, Ph.D. Nonparametric and semiparametric regression, semiparametric efficiency, missing data, longitudinal (correlated/clustered) data, epidemiology, observational studies, clinical trials.
	Xiaoquan William Wen , Ph.D. Bayesian and Computational Statistics with applications in genetics and genomics.
	Wen Ye, Ph.D. Clinical trials and epidemiological studies, particularly measurement error, informative dropout, missing data, and non-compliance issues.
	Sebastian Zöllner, Ph.D. Population genetics, copy number variation, rare variants, genetics of psychiatric diseases.
	Min Zhang, Ph.D. Semiparametric methods with missing and censored data, causal inference,survival analysis, clinical trials, and longitudinal data analysis.
	Lili Zhao, Ph.D. Developing Bayesian statistical methodology and applying it in cancer research. Current methodological work involves change point analysis, phase I and II clinical trials.

Faculty with Joint Appointments

	Andrzej T. Galecki, M.D., Ph.D. Developing computational methods for analyzing correlated and over dispersed data.
	Niko Kaciroti, Ph.D. Longitudinal data analysis, Bayesian methods, missing-data, clinical trials. Application of statistics in an interdisciplinary setting: medical and social science, developmental data, managing chronic disease, global health.
	Maureen A. Sartor, Ph.D. Developing statistical methodology for high throughput genomic and epigenomic experiments and other bioinformatic applications.
	Matthew J. Schipper, Ph.D. Early phase oncology trial design, predictive risk modeling and use of biomarkers to individualize and adapt treatment.
	Ananda Sen, Ph.D. Analysis of recurrent event data in both biomedical and engineering contexts. Competing risks, and accelerated failure time modeling.
	Kerby Shedden, Ph.D. Statistical modeling in the natural sciences. High dimensional and massive data sets. Statistical computing.
	Naisyin Wang, Dr. Statistical modeling of biological/medical data and method development; measurement error models, longitudinal and functional data analysis; non- and semiparametric regression.

Lecturers and Adjunct Faculty

	Hyungjin Myra Kim, Sc.D. Evaluation of feasibility, effectiveness, and accuracy of various telemedicine approaches compared with traditional onsite medical care; medical decision analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis.
	Kathleen B. Welch, M.S. Models for correlated data for continuous outcomes, and generalized estimating equations and other models for correlated discrete outcomes.

Emeritus Faculty

	Morton B. Brown, Ph.D. Clinical trials, categorical data analysis, statistical computing, robust methods and model fitting.
	Richard G. Cornell, Ph.D. Adaptive clinical trials and decision analysis.
	Jack D. Kalbfleisch, Ph.D. Development of statistical methods and theory, survival and event history analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, mixture models, stochastic modeling, applications in renal disease and organ transplantation.
	Anant M Kshirsagar, D.Sc. Multivariate analysis, design of experiments, growth curves, discriminant analysis, canonical analysis, response surface methodology.
	Robert A. Wolfe, Ph.D. Survival analysis focusing upon interval censored data, applications of statistics in epidemiology, event history data analysis, and transplantation research.