Le Bao

Le Bao is a Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in Bayesian methods, data mining, and computational statistics with applications in public health, epidemiology, and environmental science. They are affiliated with the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences through the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and the Department of Statistics.

• Research Focus: HIV epidemic modeling, spatial statistics, Bayesian hierarchical models, and health inequities
• Key Collaborations: Applied work in cardiovascular health, nutritional science, and gene-environment interactions
• Recent Trends: Development of statistical tools for antenatal HIV surveillance, multivariate spatial modeling, and network scale-up population estimation

Scientific Awards: No specific awards mentioned in available text.

Publications: Active in journals including Biometrics, Annals of Applied Statistics, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Their work addresses HIV recency classification, environmental risk assessment, and public health policy modeling.