Razvan Romanescu

Razvan Romanescu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba. His research focuses on biostatistics, with expertise in statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and infectious disease modeling. He leads funded research on predicting COVID-19 case counts and collaborates with the Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) as a consulting biostatistician.

• Education:
• PhD in Applied Statistics, University of Guelph (2016)
• MMath, University of Waterloo (2009)
• BSc (Hons), University of Toronto (2007)

His research themes include:

• Developing methods to analyze -omics data for disease discovery
• Improving statistical power in small-sample genetic studies
• Modeling respiratory pathogen spread via network-based approaches

Awards & Fellowships:

• Recipient of multiple grants including CIHR STAGE and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research fellowships
• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship (Masters level)

Current Roles: Leads the Biostatistics Group at CHI, maintains collaborations across the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, and advises graduate students in Master’s and PhD programs.