Faculty

• Professorial Faculty
• Other Faculty
• Secondary and Adjunct Appointments
• Visiting Faculty

Professorial Faculty

• Almudevar, Anthony, PhD, Professor Emeritus
• Beck, Christopher, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Cai, Xueya, PhD, Research Associate Professor
• Ertefaie, Ashkan, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Feng, Changyong, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Johnson, Brent, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Jun, Seong-Hwan, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Lopa, Samia, PhD, Research Assistant Professor
• Love, Tanzy, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• McCall, Matthew, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• McDermott, Michael, PhD, Associate Chair, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Norman-Haignere, Samuel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Oakes, David, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Peterson, Derick, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Qiu, Xing, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Sohn, Michael, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Strawderman, Robert, ScD, Department Chair, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Thurston, Sally, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Wahed, Abdus, PhD, Associate Chair, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Wang, Hongyue, PhD, Research Associate Professor
• Wu, Tong Tong, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Yang, Hongmei, PhD, Research Associate Professor

Other Faculty

Secondary and Adjunct Appointments

Past Visiting Faculty

Hongjun Li, PhD

Associate Professor
Mathematics Department, College of Science
Beijing Forestry University

Dr. Li arrived in September 2015 for a 12-month visit to collaborate with Dr. Xing Qiu on biomathematical modelling and statistical inference on object data, including imaging data.

Jie Zhou, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Xidian University

Dr. Zhou arrived in April 2015 for a 12-month visit to work with Drs. Hulin Wu and Xing Qiu  to develop statistical methods for differential equations with applications to biomedical science, in particular, in immune responses and computational algorithms, as well as implementation methods.

Julie McIntyre, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr. McIntyre arrived in September 2015 for a 1-month visit to collaborate with Dr. Brent Johnson on nonparametric and semi-parametric regression with error-prone predictors for application to human biomarker studies of benzene exposure.

Aidong Adam Ding, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Northeastern University

Dr. Ding visited from June through August 2012, collaborating with Dr. Hulin Wu to develop statistical estimation methods for differential equation models with biomedical applications.

Sanyi Tang, PhD

Professor
College of Mathematics and Information Science
Shaanxi Normal University

Dr. Tang visited from June to July 2012, working with Dr. Hulin Wu on a US-China collaborative project on modeling HIV/AIDS.

Yanni Xiao, PhD

Professor of Applied Mathematics
Xi'an Jiaotong University

Dr. Xiao visited from June to July 2012, working with Dr. Hulin Wu on a US-China collaborative project on modeling HIV/AIDS.

Ya-Xiang Yuan, PhD

Professor and Elected Fellow
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Yuan visited in February 2012. A world leader in optimization research, Dr. Yuan collaborated with Dr. Hulin Wu’s group to develop novel estimation approaches and computational algorithms for high-dimensional dynamic networks.

Anna Liu, PhD

Associate Professor
Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Liu arrived in September 2011 for a 10-month visit to collaborate with Dr. Hulin Wu. Dr. Liu's research interests include semiparametric models, mixed models, and microarray data analysis. She is collaborating with Dr. Wu to develop new inference methods for high-dimensional semiparametric differential equation models. During a previous visit in June-July 2007, Dr. Liu conducted collaborative research with Dr. Hua Liang.

Zhihua Sun, PhD

Dept of Statistics
School of Mathematics Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
People's Republic of China
 
Dr. Sun arrived in January 2010 for a six-month visit. During her stay she collaborated with Dr. Hua Liang, working on dimension reduction for generalized partial linear models with applications in AIDS clinical research.

Wei Gu, PhD

Dept of Statistics
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
People's Republic of China
 
Dr. Gu arrived for an 18-month visit in February 2009. During his stay he conducted collaborative research with Dr. Hulin Wu.

Xinmin Li, PhD

Dept of Statistics
School of Science
Shandong University of Technology
People's Republic of China
 
Dr. Li arrived in February 2009 for a ten-month visit. During his stay he collaborated with Dr. Hua Liang.

Nikolay Yanev, PhD

Dept of Probability and Statistics
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria

Dr. Yanev arrived for a two-month visit in May 2009. During his stay he conducted collaborative research with Dr. Hyrien on branching stochastic processes and their applications to cell biology. During prior visits beginning in January 2008, January 2007 and January 2005, Dr. Yanev taught a course on stochastic processes and collaborated with Drs. Yakovlev and Hyrien in applications of the theory of branching stochastic processes in experimental studies of CNS development and leukemia.

Chonghua Wan, PhD

Deputy Dean of Faculty of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics
Kunming Medical College
People's Republic of China

Dr. Wan arrived in March 2006 for an 18 month visit. During his stay Dr. Wan collaborated with Prof. Xin Tu on a number of projects including (1) developing statistical methods for evaluating and measuring quality of life for patients with mental health and other related chronic diseases; (2) developing statistical methods for analysis, evaluation and utilization of health resources; and (3) developing statistical methods for assessing rater bias and rater reliability and for comparing different methods for assessing rater-based or self-report data. In addition, Dr. Wan and Prof. Tu worked together to develop non-parametric methods to improve the performances of existing methods for assessing item responses.

Yury N. Tyurin, PhD

Doctor of Science in Mathematics
Distinguished Professor, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia
Part-time Faculty, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Dr. Tyurin was with the Department for 4 months beginning in September 2006. His areas of interests include mathematical methods of statistics, especially nonparametric statistics, and applications of statistical methods in economics and social sciences. During his stay Dr. Tyurin lectured on Probability to graduate students and conducted research on gene expressions.

Yongsong Qin, PhD

School of Mathematical Sciences
Guangxi Normal University
People's Republic of China

Dr. Qin arrived in June 2006. During his two-month stay Dr. Qin collaborated with Dr. Hua Liang conducting research in statistical methods for partially linear models with missing data.

Jin-Ting Zhang, PhD

Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability
National University of Singapore

Dr. Zhang was with the Department for two months in November and December 2003, and returned for a second visit from November 2004 to December 2005. During his stays he collaborated with Dr. Hulin Wu and completed two book chapters for their coauthored book, Nonparametric Mixed-Effects Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis. Dr. Zhang's research work is related to Dr. Wu's NIH-funded project, "Nonparametrical Modeling of Long-Term HIV/Cell Dynamics."

Byung Soo Kim, PhD

Department of Applied Statistics
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea

Dr. Kim conducted research for three months during the summer of 2004 with support from the Yamagiwa-Yoshida Cancer Study Grant. While visiting the Department, Dr. Kim conducted research involving gene expression prognostic signatures of cancer.

Lev B. Klebanov, PhD

Department of Probability and Statistics
Charls University
Sokolovska, Czech Republic

Dr. Klebanov was with the Department for a nine-month visit starting in October 2003. While here, he collaborated with Drs. A. Yakovlev and A. Gordon conducting research in statistical methods for microarray data analysis. He also worked with Dr. Yakovlev on a new statistical test for sufficient follow-up in cure-rate analysis of survival data.

John Hsieh, PhD

Dept of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Dr. Hsieh conducted research on asymptotic distributions and covariance structure of the empirical processes of generalized survival functions and on effects on measures of association of different epidemiological designs. He taught a course on statistical methods in epidemiology and supervised Anthony Conde’s thesis, entitled "Meta-Analysis of Positron Emission Tomography versus Computed Tomography Imaging in the Staging or Restaging of Head and Neck Cancers with Histological Confirmation."

Ekaterina Myasnikova, PhD

Department of Computational Biology
State Polytechnical University
St. Petersburg, Russia

Dr. Myasnikova joined us for three months in the summer of 2003. Her research was concerned with gene regulatory network construction.