معرفی
Bhramar Mukherjee is a John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, also holding professorships in the Department of Epidemiology and Global Public Health. She chairs the Department of Biostatistics and serves as a faculty affiliate at MIDAS (Michigan Institute for Data Science). Her research focuses on Bayesian methods, gene-environment interactions, and scalable biobank data analysis. She has authored over 370 publications and led NSF/NIH-funded projects.
Education:
- PhD, Statistics, Purdue University (2001)
- MS, Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University (1999)
- MStat, Applied Statistics and Data Analysis, Indian Statistical Institute (1996)
- BSc, Statistics, Presidency College (1994)
Research Interests: Integrating genetic, environmental, and phenomic data; electronic health record analysis; pandemic modeling (e.g., SARS-CoV-2 in India); and addressing selection bias in healthcare data. Her work spans cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and environmental epidemiology.
Awards:
- Member, National Academy of Medicine (2023)
- Fellow, American Statistical Association
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Janet Norwood Award (2019)
Leadership Roles: Former Chair of Biostatistics (2018–2024), Associate Director of Quantitative Data Sciences at the Rogel Cancer Center, and co-founder of the Big Data Summer Institute. She contributed to pandemic modeling during the 2020–2021 global crisis.
