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Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Biostatistics


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: Bruce Levin, Ph.D.
722 W. 168th St.
6th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.305.9398


Director of Academic Programs: Roger D. Vaughan, Ph.D.

Faculty

Emilia Bagiella:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997
Interests: Survival analysis, case-control studies, clinical trials, semiparametric statistics, statistics in epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Melissa Dowd Begg:
Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs at the Mailman School of Public Health, Professor, Sc.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Analysis of clustered data, statistics in epidemiology, oral health research, mental health statistics, clinical research training
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bin Cheng:
Assistant Professor, PhD, Wisconsin, 2004
Interests: Linear and generalized linear mixed models, statistical analysis of clinical trials, longitudinal non-normal data modeling, statistical computing, statistical inference on manifolds
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ying Kuen (Kenneth) Cheung:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Interests: Design and analysis of clinical trials, methods in toxicology studies and bioassay, applications of Monte Carlo methods, dose finding, nonparametric statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Andrew Gelman:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Public opinion, voting behavior, public policy, public health, statistical methodology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Norma V. S. Graham:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1970
Interests: Mathematical models of brain function
Susan E. Hodge:
Professor, Sc.D., Washington, 1976
Interests: Mathematical modeling, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George Hripcsak:
Professor, M.D., M.S., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Automated decision support; data acquisition and access; mobile computing
Zhezhen Jin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: Survival analysis, resampling methods, random effects models, meta-analysis, ROC curves, smoothing methods, nonparametric regression, clinical trials, empirical Bayes methods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David H. Krantz:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1964
Interests: Problem solving, decision making, induction, and math education; applications of axiomatic measurement theory; perception, especially psychophysics, color vision
Bruce Levin:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1974
Interests: Logistic regression, analysis of categorical data, statistics in the law, bioethics, conditional likelihood analysis, sequential experimentation, clinical trials, reproductive epidemiology, stroke, cardiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce G. Link:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Medical sociology, mental health, statistics
Marianthi Markatou:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1988
Interests: Model assessment and selection, robustness, mixture models, foundations of inference, resampling rechniques, machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, biomedical informatics, pharmacokinetics, analysis of large data sets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ian W. McKeague:
Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina, 1980
Interests: Survival analysis, competing risks in HIV/AIDS studies, inference for stochastic processes, empirical likelihood, Markov chain Monte Carlo, functional data analysis, semiparametric efficiency, Bayesian statistics, and martingale and counting process methods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
R. Todd Ogden:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1994
Interests: Nonparametric regression, wavelets, functional data analysis, statistical computing, data modeling, analysis of brain imaging data
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Myunghee Paik:
Professor, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1987
Interests: Longitudinal data analysis, mixed models, generalized estimating equations, missing data, survival analysis, neurology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniel Rabinowitz:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1991
Interests: Survival analysis, semiparametric inference, boundary crossing probabilities with statistical applications, genetic epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Y. Shapiro:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
Interests: Public opinion, political leadership, policy-making, the mass media, political participation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wei-Yann Tsai:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1982
Interests: Survival analysis, incomplete data methods, nonparametrics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Roger D. Vaughan:
Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997
Interests: Analysis of data arising from group randomized trials and from quasi-experiments, analysis of clustered or correlated binary data, program evaluation
Shuang Wang:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 2003
Interests: Statistical genetics with an emphasis on genetic linkage and association studies and mapping quantitative trait loci
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yuanjia Wang:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2005
Interests: Statistical analysis of genetic data, semiparametric efficiency, high-dimensional data analysis, functional data analysis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ying Wei:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Illinois, 2004
Interests: Quantile regression methods, growth chart estimation, longitudinal data analysis, semiparametric modeling, robust statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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