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Gustavo Amorim
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research interests include: missing data, measurement error, sampling design, statistical education, global health
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Amir Asiaee
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsPhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Research interests include: bioinformatics, causal inference, cancer genomics, computational biology, data science, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning
More information: amirasiaee.com
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Lynne Berry
Director, Data Management and Tool Development UnitsVanderbilt Biostatistics Data Coordinating Center (VBDCC)Deputy Director, Center for Quantitative SciencesResearch Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsVice Chair of InformaticsDepartment of BiostatisticsPhD, Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University
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Bryan Blette
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
Affiliations include: Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR)
Research interests include: causal inference and clinical trials; application areas include HIV/AIDS, pediatrics, critical care, and pulmonary medicine
More information: bryanblette.com
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Heidi Chen
Research Associate Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biomathematics, North Carolina State University
Research interests include: survival analysis, mixed model and longitudinal data analysis, two-stage adaptive design for phase II clinical trials, model/process validation for high-dimensional data
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Qingxia "Cindy" Chen
Vice Chair of EducationDepartment of BiostatisticsDirector, Biostatistics Post-Graduate Studies and Distance LearningDirector, Executive Data Science ProgramDepartments of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsProfessor of Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, and Ophthalmology & Visual SciencesPhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research interests include: missing data, survival analysis (especially time-varying effect and treatment switching), Bayesian methods in big data, penalized approach for 1<n/p<10, developing statistical methods for using electronic health records (EHRs) and genetics information in precision medicine, cancer, ophthalmology, infection disease, cardiovascular diseases, suicide
Honors and service include: co-chair, 2024 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium; Academy for Excellence in Education (elected 2023); chair, 2022 all-department retreat; James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumna Award, University of North Carolina (2015); Department Methods Publication Award (2014); numerous committees, including Faculty Search (2005 - present); associate editor, Statistics and Its Interface (2016 - present)
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Sheau-Chiann Chen
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)
Research interests include: methodology development in phase I clinical trials, pattern recognition and robust estimation; statistics with applications in clinical trials, industrial statistics, cancer biology
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Leena Choi
Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity, and InclusionDepartment of BiostatisticsProfessor of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsPhD, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Research interests include: constructing a system for pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenomics studies using electronic health records (EHRs), which would provide the foundation for dose-optimization support system for precision medicine; developing medication dosing extraction algorithms from EHRs, which would also benefit medication-related studies in pharmacoepidemiology
More information: The Choi Lab
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Mario Davidson
Associate Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity, and InclusionDepartment of BiostatisticsAssociate Professor of BiostatisticsStatistical Collaboration in Health Science Course DirectorDepartment of BiostatisticsDirector for Classroom Peer Reviews, Educator Development Program (EDP)PLAN Course DirectorSchool of MedicinePhD, Statistics/Mathematics Education, The Ohio State University
Research interests include: medical education assessment; research and statistical collaboration; questionnaire design; regression modeling; statistical consulting; statistics and mathematics education; mixed methodology; the statistics and mathematics achievement gap
Honors include: 2022 Geoffrey David Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education; Academy for Excellence in Education (elected 2015; mentoring committee chair; board of directors, 2022–2030: member-at-large, 2022–2024; director-elect, 2024–2026; director, 2026–2028; immediate past director, 2028–2030)
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Liping Du
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Responsibilities include: collaborating with basic science and clinical research scientists in different fields, focusing on writing statistical analysis plan for grant applications and helping them with experimental designs, analyzing statistical data, interpreting results, and preparing manuscripts. Du also works on clinical trial reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), performs data analysis for epidemiology studies and high-dimensional proteomic/genomic/metabolomics research, and collaborates with Peabody at Vanderbilt on education-related statistical data analysis.
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William D. Dupont
Professor of Biostatistics and Health PolicyDirector, Nashville Breast Cohort StudyPhD, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Research interests include: epidemiology, breast disease, cancer, genetics, hormonal replacement therapy, screening, power and sample calculations, data management, data quality assurance, clinical trials, stopping rules, foundations of statistical inference, likelihood methods
Selected honors: Fellow, American Statistical Association (elected 2009); Ernest W. Goodpasture Award for Groundbreaking Research, 2003; Academy for Excellence in Education (elected 2021)
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Svetlana Eden
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Research interests include: developing semi- and nonparametric methods of estimating correlation in survival data; causal inference methods (specifically Mendelian Randomization analysis); risk factors in veterans; survival analysis; rank association measures; Bayesian modeling
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Benjamin French
Professor of BiostatisticsDirectorBiostatistics Graduate ProgramPhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Research interests include: statistical analysis methods for longitudinal and survival data, with scientific focus on estimation of exposure-outcome associations or evaluation of prediction accuracy; cardiovascular disease; cancer epidemiology; health economics
Service and honors include: statistical editor, JAMA Pediatrics; elected member, National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), 2024–2030
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Shawn Garbett
Director, Informatics Software DevelopmentAssistant in BiostatisticsMS, Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
Research interests include: applying computational and numerical skills to modeling complex data, Rational Integration of Genomic Healthcare Testing (RIGHT), reproducible manuscripts
Honors include: contributor to three of the most significant publications in genomics, 2021–2023
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Tebeb Gebretsadik
Senior Associate in BiostatisticsMPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
Research interests include: clinical asthma research (adult and pediatric), infectious disease/global health, rheumatology/immunology, statistical methods in epidemiology, predictive modeling, analysis of electronic health records, multidimensional data, observational studies, causal inference studies, maternal and environmental influences on pediatric respiratory health, teaching biostatistics, clinical pharmacology, HIV and AIDS, cancer, clinical trials, diabetes
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Robert Greevy
Director of Health Services Research, BiostatisticsProfessor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests include: clinical trial design, causal inference, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, and any investigation "that has a chance to improve people's lives."
Honors include: Patrick G. Arbogast Collaborative Publication Award (2019); Outstanding Faculty Mentor (2018); Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015)
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Amber J. Hackstadt
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, Colorado State University
Faculty affiliate, Center for Health Services Research
Research interests include: health service research, public health research, diabetes, environmental biostatistics, causal inference, Bayesian inference, regression splines, semi parametric estimation
Honors and service include: Data safety and monitoring board member, Preliminary Investigation of optimaL Oxygen Targets (PILOT) trial; graduate program and staff promotions committees (chair); useR!2022 organizing committee; faculty search committee; inaugural Fleming Society cohort (2021–2023)
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Frank E. Harrell, Jr.
Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
Research interests include: development of accurate prognostic and diagnostic models, model validation, clinical trials, observational clinical research, cardiovascular research, technology evaluation, pharmaceutical safety, Bayesian methods, quantifying predictive accuracy, missing data imputation, statistical graphics and reporting
Honors and service include: founding department chair, 2003–2017; fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA; elected 2005); associate editor, Statistics in Medicine; W. J. Dixon for Excellence in Statistical Computing (ASA, 2014); senior biostatistics advisor, Office of the Center Director, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER, 2022–present); expert statistical advisor, Office of Biostatistics, CDER (2016–2020); scientific advisory board member, Science Translational Medicine; policy advisory board member, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
More information: fharrell.com
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Chih-Yuan Hsu
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University
Research interests include: functional data analysis; estimation of density partial derivatives; mode estimation; survival analysis; clinical trials; quantile regression with longitudinal data; single-cell RNA-seq normalization and clustering
Winner of the 2022 Methods Publication Award.
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Li-Ching Huang
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University
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Shi Huang
Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Radiology & Radiological SciencesPhD, Epidemiology, University of Miami
Research interests include: latent variable modeling, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modeling (SEM), mediation analysis, application of advanced statistical methodology for prevention research on substance use and HIV risk behavior.
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Robert (Bob) E. Johnson
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
Responsibilities include: teaching; serving on graduate student committees; ASA Mid-Tennessee Chapter secretary
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Hakmook Kang
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsDirector, Data Science CoreVanderbilt Kennedy CenterAssociate Director for Graduate StudiesData Science institutePhD, Biostatistics, Brown University
Research interests include: spatio-temporal modeling; multiple testing problems and their applications to imaging data; multi-modal imaging data analysis (e.g., fMRI and DTI)
Honors include: Jacek Hawiger Award for Excellence in Teaching Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows in the Classroom, Lecture, or Small Group Setting (2022); election to the Academy for Excellence in Education (2022); Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching (2020 and 2016); Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences High Impact Research Award (2016)
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Tatsuki Koyama
Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
Research interests include: group sequential methods; two-stage adaptive procedures (phase II / phase III); noninferiority / superiority / equivalence trials; statistics in basic science; statistical graphics; p value, confidence interval, unbiased estimate from a Simon's two-stage procedure
Honors and service include: Patrick G. Arbogast Collaborative Publication Awards (2014 and 2017); treasurer, American Statistical Association, Middle Tennessee Chapter (2022)
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Dandan Liu
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsExecutive directorVanderbilt Biostatistics Data Coordinating Center (VBDCC)DirectorVanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Methods ProgramPhD, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Research interests include: biomarker evaluation, event history data analysis with application to cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, risk prediction modeling, disease progression modeling, electronic health records
Honors include: Outstanding Faculty Mentor (2022); Department Method Publication Award (2015)
Service includes: president-elect, Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians (2024–2026; president, 2026–2028; past president, 2028–2030); co-chair, 2024 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium; Steering Committee Member of Executive Committee: Design and Data Analytics (DaDA) Professional Interests Area (PIA) of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) (2022–present); Department of Biostatistics Graduate Admissions (2014–2023), Faculty Search Committee (2017–present), and Biostatistics Resource Allocation Committee (chair, 2020–2024)
Member of: International Biometric Society (IBS); East North American Region (ENAR); American Statistical Association (ASA); Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTStat); Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART); International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
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Jinyuan Liu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry & Behavioral SciencesPhD, Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego
Research interests include: behavior sciences, psychiatry, psychology, causal inference, and longitudinal data analysis
More information: sites.google.com/view/jinyuanliu
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Qi Liu
Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsTechnical Director, VANGARDDirector, CQS Omics Coordinating CenterPhD, Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interests include: omics, single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell multimomics integration, genomics, epigenomics, transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation, enhancer-mediated regulation
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Siyuan Ma
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, Harvard University
Research interests include: epidemiology, study design, assay tech, omics
Service includes: Member Engagement Committee co-chair, ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (2024); faculty coordinator, Vanderbilt Biostatistics seminars (2025); VBSIUU planning committee and mentor (2024 - present); ICSA student paper competition chair (2023 - 2024); graduate program admissions committee and curriculum committee
More information: https://syma-research.github.io
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Hui Nian
Research Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Orthopaedic SurgeryPhD, Biochemistry, Oregon State University
Research interests include: causal inference for multilevel treatments, Bayesian adaptive design for clinical trials, provider profiling
Collaborations include: VUMC Spine Outcomes Lab
Service includes: Chair, Patrick K. Arbogast Collarative Publication Award Committee (2024); VICTR Studio expert (2011–2020); MS Staff Recruitment Committee (2011–2016)
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Rameela Raman
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Health Policy, and Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesPhD, Biostatistics, State University of New York, Buffalo
Research interests include: health disparities, geocoding, critical care, child welfare, influenza, statistical education
Honors and service include: Chair, All-Department Retreat (2024); American Statistical Association Council of Chapters representative (2022–2024); Academy for Excellence in Education (elected 2019); Outstanding Faculty Mentor (2019); Patrick G. Arbogast Awards for best collaborative publication (2016, 2019); Delta Omega (National Honor Society in Public Health, inducted 2021); Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2024)
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Lauren R. Samuels
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Research interests include: appropriate collection and analysis of data related to race/ethnicity, sex, and gender; causal inference in observational studies and clinical trials; Bayesian methods; data visualization
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Jonathan S. Schildcrout
Vice Chair for Research, Department of BiostatisticsProfessor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Research interests include: longitudinal data studies, epidemiological study designs, health services research, diabetes and obesity prevention interventions, pharamcogenetics, resource preserving genetic testing programs for indvidualized medicine, epidemiology, predictive modeling and evaluation of predictive models, topics in pain and anesthesiology research
Honors include: Fellow, American Statistical Association (elected 2019); Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015 and 2018); Methods Publication Award (2016); Outstanding Faculty Mentor (2024)
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Quanhu "Tiger" Sheng
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsDeputy Technical DirectorVANGARDPhD, Bioinformatics, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Research interests include: next generation sequencing data analysis (especially for RNAseq, DNAseq and miRNAseq data); bioinformatics in proteomics, glycomics and metabolimics (including algorithm development, data analysis and software implementation).
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Bryan E. Shepherd
Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Department of BiostatisticsProfessor of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Research interests include: causal inference, observational data analysis, ordinal data analysis, applications in HIV and other infectious diseases, measurement error, global health
Affiliate appointments include: Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center; Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biomedical Informatics; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria (adjunct professor since 2024)
Honors and service include: Best Paper Award, Biometrics (2023), for "Multiwave validation sampling for error-prone electronic health records"; Fellow, American Statistical Association (elected 2018); associate editor, American Journal of Epidemiology (since 2016); associate editor, Biometrics (since 2018); director of the Data Science Core of TN-CFAR (since 2015)
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Matt Shotwell
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and AnesthesiologyDirector, Design & Analysis UnitVanderbilt Biostatistics Data Coordinating Center (VBDCC)PhD, Biostatistics, Medical University of South Carolina
Collaborations include: topics in anesthesiology, geriatrics and quality aging, drug repurposing
Research interests include: optimal design and statistical treatment of biomedical experiments
For more information: BioStatMatt.com
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Yu Shyr
Chair, Department of BiostatisticsHarold L. Moses Chair in Cancer ResearchDirector, Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS)Director, Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics Analysis and Research Design (VANGARD)Professor of Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, and Health PolicyPhD, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Research interests include: statistical and bioinformatic methodology, next-generation sequencing data, adaptive clinical trials, longitudinal binary data; cancer biology, epidemiology, genetics, and bioinformatics; proteomics; survival analysis; teaching biostatistics
Honors and service include: Fellow, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR; elected 2022); Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA; elected 2010); fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; elected 2016); associate editor for statistics, JAMA Oncology (since 2015); honorary doctorate, National Cheng Kung University (2018)
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James Christopher (Chris) Slaughter
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsDrPH, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
Research interests include: longitudinal data analysis for observational studies, latent variable methods, Bayesian statistics, reproductive health applications
Areas of collaboration include: gastroenterology, pediatrics, neonatology
Winner of the 2023 Epidemiology PhD Teaching Award.
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Derek K. Smith
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsCo-Chair of Research and Mentoring, Pain and Symptom Management ProgramVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer CenterDDS, Indiana University; PhD, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University; MPH, Dental Public Health, A. T. Still University of Health Sciences
Research interests include: long-term oral side-effects of cancer therapy; models of care for oral health across the cancer care trajectory; novel methods for assessing risk and predicting the likely course of survivorship-related outcomes
Service and honors include: MASCC Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2019); International Society of Oral Oncology board of directors (2023–2025)
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Andrew Spieker
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Research interests include: causal inference, diagnostic tests and accuracy, health policy, longitudinal data analysis, nonparametric statistics, sensitivity analyses, teaching biostatistics
Awards and service include: Academy for Excellence in Education (2024); Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021); Outstanding Faculty Mentor (2023 and 2020)
More information: andrewspieker.com
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Ran Tao
Associate Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
Affiliations include: Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
Research interests include: two-phase designs, missing data, measurement error, rare-variant analysis, trans-ethnic genetic association analysis, genetic risk prediction. Winner of the 2022 Faculty Development Award for "Efficient Efficient Estimation in Two-Phase Studies with Error-Prone Time-to-Event Outcome and Covariates."
Service includes: ASA Council of Sections representative for Statistics in Epidemiology (2023–2025)
More information: sites.google.com/site/dragontaoran/
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Simon Vandekar
Director of Graduate RecruitmentAssociate Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests include: effect sizes, semiparametric (robust) inference, psychiatry, psychology, neuroimaging, immunofluorescence imaging
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Jing Wang
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Bioinformatics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interests include: single-cell transcriptomics; epigenomics
Honors include: Faculty Development Award (2024); Patrick G. Arbogast Collaborative Publication Award (2022)
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Qingyan Xiang
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, Boston University
Research interests include: causal inference, mediation analysis, longitudinal data analysis, clinical trials, infectious diseases (TB and HIV), longevity, chronic pain
Service includes: associate editor, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2024–present)
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Yaomin Xu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical InformaticsPI, Translational Bioinformatics & Biostatistics LabPhD, Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
Research interests include: translation bioinformatics, multivariate data analysis and visualization, unsupervised learning, cloud computing and big data analytics, biobanks and EHRs
For more information: tbilab.org
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Jing Yang
Research Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, East China University of Science and Technology & Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jing Yang’s research work is focused on revealing the relationships between genotype and immunophenotype and identifying the determinates of immunogenicity for immunotherapy in melanoma. Dr. Yang also studies the TGFβ signaling pathway that functions through SMAD4 in inflammation-associated cancer.
VUMC Reporter feature: Vanderbilt biostatisticians launch Cancer-Immu data portal for predicting response to immune checkpoint blockade immunotherapy
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Fei Ye
Professor of Biostatistics and MedicineVice Chair of Collaborative StudiesDepartment of BiostatisticsPhD, Biostatistics, University of South Carolina
Research interests include: multi-omics data analysis and biomarker discovery; clinical trial design; cancer research; prediction model development and validation
Honors and service include: ASA Fellow (elected 2024); program chair (2024) and program chair–elect (2023), ASA Statistics in Epidemiology Section; assistant editor for statistics, JAMA Oncology (2020–present); president, Mid-Tennessee chapter, American Statistical Association (2019–2020); Biostatistics Faculty Development Award (2018)
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Panpan Zhang
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsAssistant ProfessorVanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center (VMAC)PhD, Statistics, George Washington University
Research interests include: network data analysis, applied probability, longitudinal data analysis, missing data, applications in Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative disorders
More information: panpan-zhang.com
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Zhiguo (Alex) Zhao
Assistant in BiostatisticsMS, Biostatistics, University of Iowa
MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Toledo
Expertise includes: prediction modeling, linear regression, generalized linear regression, categorical data analyses, repeated measures, mixed-effects models, survival analysis, clinical trials, power and sample size justification, statistical computing, microarray data analysis, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) data analysis, machine learning, and data mining. In addition, he is proficient in the use of R and SAS and has considerable experience in conducting and analyzing data from molecular and genetic epidemiology studies of cancer.
Projects include: genetic studies from large consortia, including the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, and Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome.
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Shilin Zhao
Assistant Professor of BiostatisticsPhD, Bioinformatics, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Research interests include: developing tools with statistical methods to solve problems in next generation sequencing data analysis; high-dimensional data; transcriptomics; genomics; proteomics data analysis and integration
Co-investigator, Translational Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Lab
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Yuwei Zhu
Senior Associate in BiostatisticsMD, Shanghai Medical University; MS, Biometry, University of Texas Health Science Center
Research interests include: influenza vaccine effectiveness, disease burden analysis, studies with EHR-based prognostic decision support