Marvin Zelen Leadership Award – Nominations Due 2/10

The Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science is an annual award supported by colleagues, friends and family, and was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Leadership Award – Nominations Due 2/10”

Former Postdoc Himel Mallick is Awarded the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award

Congratulations to Himel Mallick, who was awarded the 2022 Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) in the Professional Practice category.The prestigious award … Continue reading “Former Postdoc Himel Mallick is Awarded the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award”

Ben Guebila Marouen Receives the “Cloud Credit for Research Program” Award from Amazon Web Services

Congratulations to Research Associate Ben Guebila Marouen for receiving the “Cloud Credit for Research Program” award from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support the maintenance of open-source web tools developed with the … Continue reading “Ben Guebila Marouen Receives the “Cloud Credit for Research Program” Award from Amazon Web Services”

Shuting Shen Receives 2023 SLDS Student Paper Competition Award

Congratulations to Shuting Shen, a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Xihong Lin, who received the 2023 ASA Statistical Learning and Data Sciences (SLDS) Section Student Paper Award for her … Continue reading “Shuting Shen Receives 2023 SLDS Student Paper Competition Award”

Jeff Miller Promoted to Associate Professor

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Jeff Miller has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biostatistics! The goal of Dr. Miller’s research is to develop statistical methods to help understand diseases of aging … Continue reading “Jeff Miller Promoted to Associate Professor”

PhD Student Jemar Bather Publishes 3rd Paper in Series Related to Increasing Diversity in the Public Health Research Workforce

Congratulations to doctoral student Jemar Bather on publishing his paper, “Racial and Ethnic Composition of Students, Graduates, and Faculty in Environmental Health Sciences, 2011 to 2021”, which was an invited paper … Continue reading “PhD Student Jemar Bather Publishes 3rd Paper in Series Related to Increasing Diversity in the Public Health Research Workforce”

Postdoc Tian Gu Awarded ASA Young Investigator Award

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Tian Gu who was awarded the 2023 Young Investigator Award by ASA Statistics in Epidemiology Section! Dr. Gu has been recognized for Robust angle-based transfer learning approach in … Continue reading “Postdoc Tian Gu Awarded ASA Young Investigator Award”

Xihong Lin Named NCI Outstanding Investigator Award Recipient

Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin who was named a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award Recipient!NCI’s Outstanding Investigator Award supports accomplished leaders in cancer research who are providing significant contributions toward understanding cancer and developing … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Named NCI Outstanding Investigator Award Recipient”

Xihao Li Receives Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Fellowship

Postdoc and alumna Xihao Li, PhD ’21, has recently been awarded a Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which is a one-year … Continue reading “Xihao Li Receives Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Fellowship”

Chair John Quackenbush Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to Dr. John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Informatics and department chair, who has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)! Membership is considered one of … Continue reading “Chair John Quackenbush Elected to the National Academy of Medicine”