Biostatistics (BIST) Faculty

Amy Davidow, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., New York
Longitudinal data analysis; epidemiology of tuberculosis; spatial analysis of disease rates

Perry Halkitis, Dean and Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., M.P.H., CUNY
HIV/AIDS; drug abuse; health disparities; LGBT; mental health

Yong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Mixture hypotheses and models; cancer phase-I/II clinical trial designs; bootstrap and statistical computing

Shou-En Lu, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Cohort case-control design and analysis; clustered failure time data; multivariate failure time data

Dirk Moore, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Washington (Seattle)
Correlated binary and count data; statistical methods in genetics and epidemiology

Jason Roy, Chair, Professor, and Director of Rutgers University Biostatistics and Epidemiology Services (RUBIES); Ph.D., Michigan
Causal inference; Bayesian nonparametrics; digital health

Weichung Joe Shih, Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Minnesota
Statistical methodology in clinical trials; sequential design and analysis; incomplete data; midcourse adjustment of study designs; cancer study designs and analysis

Pamela Ohman Strickland, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., M.S., Cornell
Analysis with small samples; categorical data; random effect models; clustered failure time data

Yaqun Wang, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State; M.S., Zhejiang (China)
Gene regulatory network; gene-environment interaction; statistical genetics; longitudinal data; big data

Associate Member of the Faculty

Jerry Q. Cheng, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; primary at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Rutgers; M.S., North Carolina State
Research in statistics