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

Sinae Kim, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Texas A&M
Bayesian variable selection; clustering; nonparametric Bayes; wavelets; bioinformatics; DNA microarray analysis

Wei Li, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Statistical/computational modeling and algorithm development

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

Jaya Satagopan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Interim Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Gene-environment interactions; case-control design; selective sampling designs; bayesian methods; ensemble learning methods

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