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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: Melissa Dowd Begg, Sc.D.

Dissertation Sponsors

Emilia Bagiella:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997
Interests: Survival analysis, case-control studies, clinical trials, semiparametric statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Melissa Dowd Begg:
Professor, Sc.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Logistic regression modeling, analysis of clustered data, categorical data and analysis, dental research
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Brandt-Rauf:
Professor and Chairman of Enviromental Health Sciences, Sc.D., M.D., Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1974, 1979, 1987
Interests: Environmental carcinogenesis, protein chemistry, molecular epidemiology, ethics;Growth signal transduction; molecular epidemiology; carcinogenesis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bin Cheng:
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ying Kuen (Kenneth) Cheung:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Interests: dose finding, nonparametric statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Manisha Desai:
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, 2000
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Andrew Gelman:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Bayesian statistics, sample surveys, political science, spatial statistics, environmental sciences, statistical graphics and computation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Norma V. S. Graham:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1970
Interests: Interpreting data from psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of vision by the application of mathematical models
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Zhezhen Jin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: Survival analysis, resampling methods, random effects models, meta-analysis, 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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce Levin:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1974
Interests: Logistic regression, categorical data analysis, statistics in the law, sequential experimentation, clinical trials, reproductive epidemiology, stroke, cardiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce G. Link:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology, sociology, homelessness
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marianthi Markatou:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1988
Interests: robust statistics, mixture models, model assessment, machine learning, natural language processing, analysis of computer algorithms, evaluation of computer models, data mining
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ian W. McKeague:
Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 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 University, 1994
Interests: Research 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, 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 (Political Science), Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
Interests: Political science, American politics, quantitative analysis;Public opinion and political behavior; methodology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wei-Yann Tsai:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1982
Interests: Survival analysis, incomplete data methods, nonparametrics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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




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