Ananda Sen

Ananda Sen is a Lee A. Green Collegiate Research Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and a Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

• Education: PhD in Statistics (University of Wisconsin, 1993), MS and BS from the Indian Statistical Institute (1987, 1985).

Dr. Sen specializes in survival analysis (competing risks, recurrent events), Bayesian methods, and correlated agreement with applications in cancer prevention, biomarker research, and genetic/spare data. His collaborative work includes dietary interventions for gastrointestinal cancers, women's health, disability research, and diagnostic testing.

His methodological publications focus on Bayesian survival models, competing risks, and correlated agreement measures, while applied works emphasize cancer prevention, nutritional science, and clinical trial design. He served as Director of the NCI-funded Biostatistics Core in GI Cancer Research.

• Scientific Awards: Teaching Excellence Award (School of Public Health), Fellow (American Statistical Association), Elected Member (International Statistical Institute).