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Jonathan N. Katzمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Political Methodology
• Statistics
• Political Economy
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Jonathan N. Katz is the Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He holds a S.B. from MIT (1990), M.A. from UC San Diego (1992), and Ph.D. from UC San Diego (1995). His career includes roles as Assistant Professor (1995-98), Associate Professor (1998-2003), and Professor (2003-11) at Caltech, with subsequent appointments as Sugahara Professor (2012–present), Executive Officer for Social Sciences (2007), and Division Chair (2007–14). His research focuses on statistical methods in social sciences, electoral systems, and public policy. Key affiliations include the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project and the Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences. Katz is Deputy Editor for Social Sciences at Science Advances and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) and the Society for Political Methodology (2008). Research interests span political methodology, formal theory, and American politics. Recent work addresses partisan fairness in electoral systems, statistical rigor in political modeling, and institutional dynamics in legislative and judicial contexts. Notable contributions include critiques of electoral college bias and audits of political behavior research methodologies. Awards: Career Achievement Award in Political Methodology (2024), Inaugural Fellow, Society for Political Methodology (2008). Grants/Labs: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Linde Institute Directorship (2013–14).

Tanya P. Garciaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Biostatistics
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• High-Dimensional Variable Selection
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Tanya P. Garcia, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Gillings School of Public Health and Research Faculty in the UNC Neurology Huntington Disease Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She leads the Methods for INcomplete Data (MIND) Lab , focusing on statistical methods for handling censored, missing, or incomplete data in neurodegenerative disease progression studies. Education: PhD in Statistics, Texas A&M University MS in Statistics, University of Western Ohio MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley Research Interests: Specializing in High-Dimensional Variable Selection , Longitudinal Data Analysis , and Neurodegenerative Disease Modeling , her work develops reproducible statistical methods for Huntington's disease progression, improving clinical trial design and biomarker identification. Scientific Awards: American Statistical Association Fellow (2024) Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship (2024) Roy R. Kuebler Award (2024) Gertrude M. Cox Award (2024) Leadership & Mentorship: Director of the MIND Lab, Chair-Elect of the Biometrics Section of ASA, and Tyson Academic Leadership Fellow (2023–2024). Her lab alumni have secured prestigious positions at institutions like Wake Forest University and Baylor University.

Alexandra M. Schmidtمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Biostatistics
• Bayesian Inference
• Spatial Statistics
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Professor Alexandra M. Schmidt is a leading academic in Biostatistics at McGill University, holding an endowed University Chair. She specializes in spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, particularly in epidemiology and environmental health. Previously, she served as a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2012–2016). Her research focuses on Bayesian methodologies for analyzing complex processes, including disease spread, environmental hazards, and socio-economic disparities. She has authored influential books such as Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R (2023) and contributed to over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Key awards include the ISBA Fellowship (2024), ASA Fellowship (2020), and the Abdel El-Shaarawi Award (2008). Education: PhD in Statistics (2001, University of Sheffield, UK), MSc and BSc in Statistics (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Research interests span Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, and environmental epidemiology. She has advised numerous PhD/MSc students and collaborated on projects linking statistical methods to public health challenges, such as modeling dengue outbreaks and air pollution impacts. Active in academic service, she has chaired major conferences (e.g., 2022 ISBA World Meeting) and serves on editorial boards of top journals like Bayesian Analysis and Canadian Journal of Statistics . Teaching includes advanced courses on generalized linear models, spatial epidemiology, and Bayesian analysis. Her work bridges theoretical statistics with practical applications, addressing global health issues through innovative spatio-temporal modeling techniques.

Richard J. Cookمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Statistical Methods for Public Health
• Life History Analysis
• Longitudinal Data Analysis
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Richard J. Cook is a University Professor and Mathematics Faculty Research Chair in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He holds cross-appointments at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo and the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. Previously, he held a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research from 2005 to 2019. His educational background includes: BSc in Statistics from McMaster University MMath in Mathematics from University of Waterloo PhD in Statistics from University of Waterloo Professor Cook's research focuses on developing and applying statistical methods for public health research. His primary areas of interest include the analysis of life history data, longitudinal data analysis, methods for incomplete data, clinical trial design, and multivariate analysis. His work provides critical methodological frameworks for understanding disease progression and evaluating interventions in complex health settings. He has made significant contributions to the development of multistate models for disease processes and methods for handling interval-censored data. His extensive publication record demonstrates consistent focus on methodological innovations addressing real-world health research challenges. Recent work emphasizes estimand specification in clinical trials, transportability of research findings, and causal inference methods. His research bridges theoretical statistics with practical applications in autoimmune diseases, transfusion medicine, and public health. Professor Cook has received significant professional recognition: Tier I Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research (2005-2019) Mathematics Faculty Research Chair at University of Waterloo His students have earned prestigious awards including multiple Pierre-Robillard Awards, ISCB Student Conference Awards, and ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards, with notable achievements like Dr. Shu (Joy) Jiang being named in the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 North America (2023) for Healthcare. Professor Cook has advised numerous graduate students throughout his career, with many going on to successful academic and industry positions. His research has been supported by various grants, and he collaborates extensively with researchers in rheumatology, transfusion medicine, and public health through affiliations with the Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, the International Psoriasis and Arthritis Research Team, and the McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research. He leads a vibrant research team that includes research associates, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students working on cutting-edge statistical methodology. His research group maintains strong connections with multiple institutions and research centers focused on health outcomes and disease progression.

• Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Time-to-Event Analysis
• Survival Analysis
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Alessandra Meddis serves as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Biostatistics within the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Her academic work centers on developing and applying advanced statistical methodologies for longitudinal and time-to-event data analysis, with significant contributions to public health research in Denmark and internationally. Her institutional affiliation is clearly established through university contact details and departmental listings. Her primary research interests include correlated survival data analysis, competing risk modeling, informative cluster size methodology, causal inference techniques for observational studies, and environmental epidemiology applications. Dr. Meddis has developed specialized expertise in handling complex survival data structures while maintaining focus on real-world public health problems, particularly in HIV comorbidity patterns, environmental exposure effects, and pandemic-related mortality analyses. Her methodological innovations directly address challenges in clustered and censored data common across medical research domains. Analysis of Dr. Meddis's recent publication record reveals a consistent trajectory of high-impact interdisciplinary research spanning clinical medicine, epidemiology, and statistical methodology. Her work appears in leading journals across biostatistics, infectious diseases, and public health, demonstrating strong collaborative networks with clinical researchers and epidemiologists. Key thematic areas include HIV treatment outcomes, environmental health exposures, and critical care applications during the pandemic, with recent methodological papers advancing survival analysis techniques for complex data structures. Scientific Awards: No scientific awards were specified in the available institutional profile. Advising and Grants: The institutional profile does not provide details regarding graduate student supervision or specific research grant funding. Her collaborative publications suggest involvement in multi-investigator projects including the COCOMO HIV cohort study and pandemic-related research initiatives. Labs and Teams: Dr. Meddis is affiliated with the Section of Biostatistics within the Department of Public Health, though specific laboratory facilities or dedicated research teams are not described in the source material. Her extensive co-authorship patterns indicate active participation in multiple research consortia across medical specialties.

Constantinos Daskalakisمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Game Theory
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Constantinos Daskalakis is the Armen Avanessians (1982) Professor in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He joined MIT in 2009 and is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations Research Center (ORC). His research focuses on theoretical computer science, with emphasis on game theory, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (not explicitly stated, but implied by tenure and awards). Research interests include computational complexity of Nash equilibria, multi-item auctions, machine learning algorithms, and causal inference. His work bridges game theory, economics, probability, and statistics, with applications in AI and healthcare. Key contributions include resolving long-standing problems in computational game theory and developing efficient methods for statistical hypothesis testing. He has been recognized with the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and the Kalai Game Theory Prize. Affiliations: CSAIL, LIDS, ORC, and the Foundations of Data Science Institute. Active in multi-agent learning, bias mitigation in data, and generative models.

Shu Yangمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Causal inference
• Missing data analysis
• High-dimensional statistics
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Shu Yang is an Associate Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University (NC State), specializing in causal inference, missing data analysis, and biostatistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Iowa State University and has held roles including Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and Assistant Professor at NC State. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for observational and clinical studies, particularly in healthcare and environmental applications. Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Iowa State University (2014) B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Beijing Normal University (2009) Research Interests: Dr. Yang’s work addresses challenges in causal inference, including longitudinal data analysis, missing data imputation, and high-dimensional statistics. She applies these methods to environmental health, cardiovascular diseases, HIV infection, and cancer research. Her team also explores spatial statistics and data integration techniques. Awards: 2025: Think, Collaborate & Do Ideation Award 2024: COPSS Emerging Leader Award, Cavell Brownie Mentoring Award 2022: University Faculty Scholar 2018: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award Grants & Advising: She leads funded projects on causal inference methods in environmental health, sepsis detection, and marine protected areas. She advises over 20 Ph.D. students and postdocs, focusing on causal methods, data integration, and healthcare analytics.

Roya Ensafiمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Networking
• Security
• Privacy
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Roya Ensafi is the Morris Wellman Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. She is the Founder and Director of the Censored Planet Lab, which focuses on Internet censorship measurement and digital equity. Her research lies at the intersection of networking, security, and privacy, with a strong emphasis on detecting censorship, surveillance, and digital inequity through scalable systems. Positions: Associate Professor (University of Michigan), Lab Director (Censored Planet) Recent Awards: Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER (2023), IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2016, 2022, 2023), USENIX Security Internet Defense Prize (2022) Her work develops systems like Censored Planet for global censorship monitoring, VPNalyzer for evaluating commercial VPN security, and Splintering Net for studying regionalized Internet access. By combining remote measurement techniques with user studies, her research addresses both technical and policy dimensions of digital freedom. Key methodologies include TLS handshake analysis, cross-layer latency metrics, and large-scale network probing. The Censored Planet project operates a global censorship detection network covering 221 countries, while VPNalyzer received the Consumer Reports Digital Lab fellowship. Collaborations include Google Jigsaw for data visualization systems used by over 100 organizations. Her 2024 work on digital discrimination in sanctioned states extends earlier groundbreaking research on Kazakhstan's HTTPS interception (2019) and Russia's Twitter throttling (2021). Scientific Awards: 2024: Distinguished Paper Awards at USENIX Security Symposium 2023: NSF CAREER Award 2022: IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, USENIX Security Internet Defense Prize, First Prize in Internet Defense Prize, CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition First Place 2021: Recognized as Highest Scoring Short Paper at ACM IMC 2015: IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2022: Finalist for ACUM Outstanding Advisor Award Her lab trains both current and alumni PhD/Master's students including Ram Sundara Raman, Diwen Xue, Reethika Ramesh (now at Palo Alto Networks), and Victor Ongkowijaya (PhD at Princeton). She teaches EECS 388 Introduction to Security at the University of Michigan, covering software and network security principles. Her work has been featured in The Economist, New York Times, and BBC for analyzing global censorship trends.

Zach Shahnمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Causal Inference
• Healthcare Data Analysis
• Critical Care Applications
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Zach Shahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the CUNY School of Public Health. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Columbia University and a BA in Mathematics from Stanford University. His research focuses on causal inference methods applied to healthcare data, particularly time-varying treatment effects and critical care applications. He has conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard School of Public Health and previously worked at IBM Research in Healthcare and Life Sciences. Education: PhD in Statistics and Probability, Columbia University BA in Mathematics, Stanford University Research interests include developing causal inference frameworks for evaluating treatment efficacy in dynamic healthcare settings, with a focus on critical care outcomes and methodological innovations. Recent work explores applications of causal diagrams, instrumental variables, and machine learning in healthcare decision-making. His studies often involve large-scale healthcare datasets to assess interventions' real-world impacts. Key trends in his articles include advancements in causal effect estimation under complex treatment regimes, bias analysis in observational studies, and methodological contributions to difference-in-differences and N-of-1 trial designs. His work bridges statistical theory with practical healthcare challenges, emphasizing reproducibility and policy relevance. No scientific awards are listed, though his contributions to causal inference methodologies are notable in academic circles. He has advised on healthcare data projects and published extensively without explicitly listed grants. His professional network includes collaborations with institutions like Harvard and IBM. He is affiliated with CUNY's public health programs and actively engages in academic discourse via Twitter and LinkedIn. His lab or team details are not explicitly mentioned in available materials.

• Stochastic processes
• Biodemography
• Survival analysis
• +۴ مورد دیگر

David Steinsaltz is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Worcester College. His research focuses on stochastic processes, biodemography, survival analysis, and Bayesian methods, with applications to aging, mortality, and population dynamics. He holds a PhD in probability theory from Harvard University, followed by postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley. His work bridges theoretical probability and applied statistics, addressing questions in demography, ecology, and epidemiology. Education: PhD in Mathematics (Probability Theory), Harvard University (1996); Postdoctoral Research, UC Berkeley (Departments of Demography and Statistics). Research interests include stochastic flows, Markov processes, and statistical methods for longitudinal data. He contributes to interdisciplinary projects, such as earthquake impact modeling and vaccine efficacy analysis. His collaborations span fields like biostatistics, ecology, and machine learning. He advises students on topics including survival analysis and demographic modeling.

Masoud Asgharianمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Survival Analysis
• Changepoint Problem
• Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis
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Masoud Asgharian is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. His research focuses on survival analysis, changepoint problems, nonparametric Bayesian methods, and data envelopment analysis. He has contributed to influential studies on dementia survival rates, censored data methodologies, and statistical efficiency measures. His work bridges biostatistics and operations research, with applications in public health and medical sciences. Key contributions include methodologies for prevalent cohort survival analysis, input relaxation efficiency measures in stochastic DEA, and causal inference techniques. Asgharian has collaborated extensively with researchers in epidemiology and biomedical engineering, as evidenced by his co-authored publications on topics ranging from tooth enamel properties to low-precision neural network quantization. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as New England Journal of Medicine , Journal of the American Statistical Association , and Biometrics . Current affiliations include leadership roles in statistical research at McGill, with ongoing projects in computational statistics and healthcare analytics.

Bryon Aragamمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Causality
• Statistical Machine Learning
• Probabilistic Modeling
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Bryon Aragam is an Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research focuses on the intersection of causality, statistical machine learning, and probabilistic modeling, with particular emphasis on applications to artificial intelligence systems including large language models like ChatGPT and generative models like DALL-E. Dr. Aragam completed his PhD in Statistics and a Masters in Applied Mathematics at UCLA, where he was an NSF graduate research fellow. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, he was a project scientist and postdoctoral researcher in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Research Focus: Causal structure learning in probabilistic generative models Key Areas: Causal machine learning, deep generative models, latent variable models, statistical learning theory Applications: AI interpretability, ethics, and fairness in artificial intelligence systems Teaching: Business Statistics, Econometrics and Statistics Colloquium His recent publications demonstrate a strong theoretical foundation combined with practical applications, particularly in understanding and improving AI systems. His work spans causal discovery, graphical models, deep learning, and latent variable modeling, with particular attention to the theoretical properties of these methods and their applications to real-world AI challenges. The research shows a progression toward increasingly complex problems in causal representation learning and AI interpretability. Scientific Awards: Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar NSF Graduate Research Fellow Dr. Aragam's work has been published in top statistics and machine learning venues including the Annals of Statistics, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). His research group publishes broadly across both statistical and machine learning communities, demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of his work at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and causal inference. As a data science consultant for technology and marketing firms, Dr. Aragam has applied his expertise to problems in survey design, customer retention, logistics, and ranking, bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical applications.

• Quality and Reliability Engineering
• Design of Experiments
• Time Series Analysis
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Rong Pan is a Professor at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University (ASU). He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (2002), an M.S. from Florida A&M University (1999), and a B.S. in Materials Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1995). His research focuses on quality and reliability engineering, design of experiments, time series analysis, and statistical learning theory. Key projects involve NSF-funded research on reliability prediction, accelerated life testing, and degradation modeling. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Quality Technology and has authored over 80 publications. Courses taught include Reliability Engineering, Design of Experiments, and Statistics for Data Analysts. His academic service includes roles as a referee for IEEE Transactions and IIE journals. Research interests emphasize statistical methods for reliability improvement, with recent work on Bayesian inference models, optimal experimental design, and machine learning applications in industrial systems. Grants include collaborations with the NSF, Arizona Department of Transportation, and Science Foundation Arizona. His work bridges theoretical advancements and practical applications in manufacturing, energy systems, and semiconductor reliability. Education: Ph.D. (2002), M.S. (1999), B.S. (1995) Key Research Areas: Reliability Engineering, Bayesian Methods, Time Series, DOE Active Grants: NSF CMMI, SUNY IT Visiting Scholar Program Teaching: IEE 573 Reliability Engineering, DSE 501 Statistics Service: Journal of Quality Technology (Associate Editor), IEEE Transactions (Referee)

Ye Zhishengمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Inventory Control
• Reliability Engineering
• Emergency Response Systems
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Ye Zhisheng is the Dean’s Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research focuses on reliability engineering, inventory control, emergency response systems, and statistical modeling. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from NUS, along with a BEng in Material Science and Engineering and a BEco in Economics from Tsinghua University. His work emphasizes practical applications in mission-critical systems, predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision-making. Current research initiatives include optimal maintenance policies for manufacturing systems, degradation analysis of bearings, and federated learning approaches for battery lifecycle prediction. He has pioneered methods for integrating physics-informed neural networks into prognostics and health management (PHM) systems. Key technical contributions span advanced statistical methodologies like sieve estimation for survival data, phase-type distributions modeling, and condition-based maintenance optimization. His interdisciplinary approach bridges operations research, mechanical engineering, and computer science to address complex reliability challenges. Recent projects include resilient consensus-based power grid management and contamination source identification frameworks. Notable collaborations involve developing intelligent cross-domain fault diagnosis systems using transformer networks and advancing the Internet of Federated Things (IoFT) for distributed data analytics. His work has been applied in aerospace, telecommunication infrastructure, and medical emergency response systems.

Mihaela van der Schaarمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Healthcare
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, leading the van der Schaar Lab. She holds dual affiliations with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) and the Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare. Her research focuses on healthcare AI, machine learning, and operations research. She has authored over 250 journal articles and 275 conference papers, with notable contributions to synthetic data for privacy, causal inference, and clinical decision-making. Her work has led to 35 U.S. patents, including foundational innovations in streaming video compression (MPEG-4 standards). Awards include the Oon Prize (2018), IEEE Fellow (2009), and recognition as the UK's most-cited female AI researcher (2019). Leadership roles include Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine and Co-Director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. She has mentored global academic leaders and pioneered initiatives like the Inspiration Exchange for early-career researchers. Key projects include predictive models for hospital resource allocation during pandemics and AI tools for personalized medicine. Publications span machine learning theory, healthcare applications, and interdisciplinary fields like network science. Her lab's impact includes tools like AutoPrognosis (automated ML for clinical prediction) and SynthCity (synthetic healthcare data generation).