Faculty
Hongyu Zhao, PhD
Department Chair and Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Genetics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Research Interests
Genetics; Public Health; Computational Biology; Statistics; Genomics; Herbal Medicine; Proteomics; Biostatistics; Microbiota
Dr. Hongyu Zhao is the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Genetics, Chair of the Biostatistics Department and the Co-Director of Graduate Studies of the Inter-Departmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Yale University. He received his B.S. in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. His research interests are the...
Maria Ciarleglio, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics (Biostatistics)
Maria Ciarleglio is an associate professor at the Yale School of Public. An expert in design, monitoring and analysis of Phase III clinical trials, she worked with the Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center at the Department of Veterans Affairs in West Haven, Connecticut for several years after completing her PhD at Yale. Her current research is focused on hybrid Bayesian-frequentist clinical trial design and adaptive methods.
Elizabeth Claus, PhD, MD
Professor of Biostatistics; Director of Medical Research, School of Public Health; Director of Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research Interests
Breast Neoplasms; Epidemiology; Meningioma; Neurosurgery; Statistics as Topic; Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD is Professor and Director of Medical Research in the Yale University School of Public Health as well as Attending Neurosurgeon and Director of Stereotactic Radiosurgery within the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is a member of the board of advisors for the Acoustic Neuroma Association (ANA) as well as the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS). Dr. Claus' work is focused in cancer and genetic epidemiology...
Forrest W. Crawford, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Management
Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration
's work focuses on mathematical and statistical problems related to discrete structures and stochastic processes in epidemiology, public health, biomedicine, and evolutionary science.
Denise Esserman, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Longitudinal Studies; Public Health; Sampling Studies; Randomized Controlled Trial; Biostatistics
Denise Esserman joined the Yale School of Public Health faculty in 2014 as an associate professor of biostatistics. She is interested in methods related to clustered randomized trials and the impact of the ICC and other factors on calculating sample size. As a member of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, she collaborates with a number of departments at the Yale School of Medicine, including the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute,...
Theodore Holford, PhD
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Research Interests
Asthma; Lung Neoplasms; Public Health; Global Health; Statistics; Geographic Information Systems
Theodore Holford, Ph.D, is Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health (Biostatistics). His scholarly work involves the development and application of statistical methods in public health and the training of individuals developing careers in health research. He developed an approach for analyzing temporal trends in disease rates using the age-period-cohort modeling framework that has be used extensively in the analysis of cancer incidence and mortality trends. He currently...
Michael Kane, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Statistics
Michael Kane is an Assistant Professor in Yale University's Biostatistics Department. He is interested in Scalable Statistical/Machine Learning, Statistical Computing, and Applied Probability.
Haiqun Lin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Public Health; Statistics; Biostatistics
Dr. Haiqun Lin has been a faculty member in biostatistics since upon her graduation with a PhD in Biometry and Statistics from Cornell University in 2000. Her research expertise includes longitudinal and multilevel data analysis. Prior to her education and career in biostatistics, she obtained a medical degree from Peking University Health Science Center and worked for Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. She obtained her Masters degree in cellular and molecular biology prior to...
Shuangge Steven Ma, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Economics; Neoplasms
Dr. Ma received his Ph.D. degree in statistics at University of Wisconsin in 2004. Prior to arriving at Yale, Dr. Ma was a Senior Fellow in Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center (CHSCC) and Department of Biostatistics at University of Washington. He has been involved in developing novel statistical and bioinformatics methodologies for analysis of cancer (NHL, breast cancer, melanoma, lung cancer), mental disorders, and cardiovascular diseases. He has also been involved in health...
Robert Makuch, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and in the Child Study Center; Director, Regulatory Affairs Track
Director, Regulatory Affairs Track
Research Interests
Infant, Premature; Public Health; Smoking Cessation; Clinical Trials, Phase IV as Topic; Biostatistics
Robert Makuch is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and Director of the Regulatory Affairs Track. A graduate of the University of Connecticut (BA), University of Washington (MA – mathematics), and Yale University (MPhil, PhD), Professor Makuch worked at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer early in his career. He also worked for six months at the National Cancer...
Peter Peduzzi, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics; Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS)
Director Yale Data Coordinating Center
Research Interests
Aging; Clinical Trials as Topic; Biostatistics; Patient Preference; Pragmatic Clinical Trials as Topic
Peter is professor of biostatistics at YSPH and director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) and the Yale Data Coordinating Center. Dr. Peduzzi has nearly 40 years’ experience in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials with a particular focus on pragmatic trials. He is the PI of several data coordinating centers funded by NIH and PCORI. Before coming to Yale he was the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center...
Donna Spiegelman, ScD
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics
Donna Spiegelman was appointed the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health in 2018. As one of the few people in the world with a joint doctorate in biostatistics and epidemiology, she can freely speak the languages of both disciplines and switch between these two professional cultures, playing the role of interlocutor for either. Her research is motivated by problems which arise in epidemiology and require biostatistical solutions. In particular, but by...
Jeffrey Townsend, PhD
Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests
Algorithms; Bacteria; Bacterial Infections and Mycoses; Beer; Bread; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; Coccidioidomycosis; Computing Methodologies; Biological Evolution; Fungi; Genetic Engineering; Microbiological Phenomena; Models, Genetic; Models, Theoretical; Mycoses; Neoplasm Metastasis; Neoplasms; Phylogeny; Viruses; Wine; Models, Statistical; Likelihood Functions; Logistic Models; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Nonlinear Dynamics; Molecular Epidemiology; Gene Transfer Techniques; Crops, Agricultural; Evolution, Molecular; Nature; Sequence Analysis, Protein; Gene Expression Profiling; Public Health Informatics; Microarray Analysis; Genetic Speciation; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Genetic Phenomena; Mathematical Concepts; Organisms; Phenomena and Processes
Professor Townsend received his Ph.D. in 2002 in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University, under the advisement of Daniel Hartl. His Ph.D. was entitled "Population genetic variation in genome-wide gene expression: modeling, measurement, and analysis", and constituted the first population genetic analysis of genome-wide gene expression variation. After making use of the model budding yeast S. cerevisiae for his Ph.D. research, Dr. Townsend accepted an appointment as a Miller...
Zuoheng Anita Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Statistics; Genomics; Biostatistics
Dr. Wang is Associate professor of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health and affiliate member of the Program on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Her research focuses on the development of statistical and computational methods to address problems in genetics, in particular, the identification of genes contributing to human complex diseases, such as alcohol use disorder and cancer. She has developed statistical methods to address both dependent and partially-observed data and...
Joshua Warren, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Joshua Warren is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from North Carolina State University in 2011. Dr. Warren’s research focuses on statistical methods in public health with an emphasis on environmental health problems. Much of his work involves introducing spatial and spatiotemporal models in the Bayesian setting to learn more about associations between environmental exposures, such as air pollution,...
Daniel Zelterman, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Epidemiology; Genetics; Computational Biology; Statistics; Biomarkers, Pharmacological; Biostatistics
Developed discrete distributions in statistics with applications to clustering of family traits. Plays oboe and bassoon in amateur orchestra groups in the New Haven area. Enjoys hiking and backpacking.
Heping Zhang, PhD
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Research Interests
Child Psychiatry; Epidemiology; Infertility; Mental Health; Pregnancy; Psychiatry; Computational Biology; Statistics; Genomics; Biostatistics
Dr. Zhang published over 290 research articles and monographs in theory and applications of statistical methods and in several areas of biomedical research including epidemiology, genetics, child and women health, mental health, substance use, and reproductive medicine. He directed a training program in mental health research that was funded by the NIMH. He directs the Collaborative Center for Statistics in Science that coordinates the Reproductive Medicine Network to evaluate treatment...
Research Scientists
Russell Barbour, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics; Associate Director for Research Methods and Analysis, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS; Lecturer for Statistics and Data Science
Associate Director for Research Methods and Analysis, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Research Interests
Statistics as Topic; Diseases
My academic training is in human ecology, so I take an ecological perspective to my work in epidemiological statistics. Of special interest is data that is correlated by space, social networks or other factors. Missing data and other lacunae in data sets has become my specialty
Eugenia Buta, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Research Interests
Statistics; Biostatistics
Eugenia Buta is an Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics working with the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Florida before joining Yale. In her role as a statistician, she collaborates with clinical investigators from Yale and VA Connecticut on a wide range of biomedical and public health research projects, such as studying pain and pain care in veterans using data from electronic health records and randomized clinical trials,...
Lisa Calvocoressi, PhD
Research Scientist
Research Interests
Mammography; Meningioma; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Dr. Calvocoressi’s primary research interests are in cancer epidemiology and prevention. Past projects include participation in a multisite study that examined the impact of genetic and environmental factors on the development of meningiomas, and investigation of factors influencing mammography screening in diverse populations. Dr. Calvocoressi is currently collaborating with the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System where her work focuses...
Feng Dai, PhD, MS
Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Research Interests
Anesthesia and Analgesia; Cardiovascular Diseases; Pain; Health Care
My research is focused on development and application of novel statistical methods in genetic epidemiology, anesthesiology, patient-centered outcomes research and public health. My collaborative work focuses on patient safety, resident and fellow education, patient-centered outcomes research projects using large-scale national electronic databases such as the Department of Veterans Affairs Corporate Data warehouse, and the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group database.
Erich J Greene, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Research Interests
Mathematical Computing; Models, Statistical; Statistics; Biostatistics
Erich Greene is a biostatistician and statistical programmer at the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS). Prior to joining YCAS, he spent more than a decade as the primary fMRI data analyst and programmer at the Yale Memory and Cognition Laboratory. He holds a master's in physics from Cornell, a doctorate in psychology from Princeton, and a fondness for the serial comma.
Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD
Senior Research Scientist in Biostatistics; Director of Biostatistics in Psychiatry
Research Interests
Psychiatry; Research Design; Models, Statistical; Risk Assessment
Dr. Gueorguieva obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Florida in 1999 and has been a faculty member of the Department of Biostatistics at Yale University School of Public Health since 2000. Her research interests are in methodological development of models for longitudinal data and outcomes of different types, assessment of risk and the application of innovative statistical approaches for clinical trials data. She has developed statistical techniques for simultaneous analysis of...
Hao Huang, MD, MPH
Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Dr. Huang is a Research Scientist at Yale School of Public Health. His early studies were focused on the field of basic research, with study interests including the mechanism of neuronal death after ischemia, glia cell functions in the brain, neuronal circuit, mechanisms, and regulation of sleeping and food intake. Since 2009, his study interests have been changed to clinical studies and public health. As one of the core members in the Collaborative Center of Statistics in Science at Yale, Dr....
Yong Kong, PhD
Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Associate Director, Bioinformatics Resource at W.M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Laboratory
Research Interests
Information Science; Mathematical Computing
Tassos Kyriakides, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics; Biostatistician; Acting Deputy Director, Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center (West Haven, CT), Department of Veterans Affairs
Biostatistician; Acting Deputy Director, Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center (West Haven, CT), Department of Veterans Affairs
Research Interests
Clinical Trials as Topic; Epidemiologic Methods; Statistics as Topic; Multicenter Studies as Topic; Epidemiologic Research Design; Survival Analysis; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic
Dr. Kyriakides collaborates with clinical researchers on numerous research projects and he provides statistical consulting on numerous research protocols. He has been an abstract mentor for young researchers at the International AIDS Conferences since 2012, leads the VACSPCC internship program and is a statistical reviewer for high-impact medical journals (Lancet Infectious Diseases and the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology).
He is also a Senior Biostatistician and currently Acting Deputy...
Han-Zhu Qian, MD, PhD
Research Scientist in Biostatistics (Biostatistics)
Research Interests
Circumcision, Male; Epidemiologic Methods; Epidemiology; Hepatitis C; HIV; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Clinical Trial; Harm Reduction; Social Stigma; Social Media; Social Discrimination; Mobile Applications; Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Dr. Han-Zhu Qian is an infectious disease epidemiologist. Prior to joining the Yale School of Public Health faculty in 2017, he was a health scientist at U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (2016-2017), where he provided technical supports for the HIV treatment programs among key populations in Asian countries. He also served as a faculty member in Vanderbilt University (2007-2016) and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) (2005-2007). He conducts epidemiological studies and...
Ning Sun, PhD
Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Research Interests
Statistics; Genomics; Systems Biology; Biostatistics
Zheng Wang, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in Biostatistics
Zheng Wang is Research Scientist at the Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University. After completing a PhD at the Clark University in 2006, he held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa. He joined Yale University in 2007, and held a post-doctoral association position at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. He is an expert on fungal taxonomy, especially classification and taxonomy of the Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycetes, Geoglossomycetes,...
Secondary
Heather Allore, PhD
Professor
Director, Yale Program on Aging Biostatistics Core
Director, Data Management and Statistics Core, Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Co-director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core of the Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Precision Medicine focused on Health Disparities
Adjunct Professor, Harldsplass Deaconess Hospital, University of Bergen, Norway
Research Interests
Aging; Geriatrics; Statistics as Topic; Frail Elderly; Mathematical Concepts; Biostatistics
Peter Aronow
Associate Professor on Term of Political Science and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Anesthesiology
Research Interests
Health Services; Medical Informatics; Medical Informatics Applications; Preventive Medicine; Public Health; Informatics
Jen-hwa Chu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Data Interpretation, Statistical; Lung Diseases; Models, Statistical; Biostatistics; Data Mining
James Dziura, MPH, PhD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Deputy Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences
Deputy Director, Yale Data Coordinating Center
Research Interests
Clinical Trials as Topic; Data Collection; Diabetes Mellitus; Emergency Medicine; Epidemiology; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Obesity; Statistics as Topic
Veronika Shabanova, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Biostatistician
Research Interests
Epidemiology; Research; Statistics as Topic
Xiting Yan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
Research Interests
Genetics; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Computational Biology; Genomics; Biostatistics; Molecular Medicine
Voluntary & Adjunct
Mingxiu Hu, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, Yale University
Senior Vice President, Data Science and Systems, Nektar Therapeutics
Mingxiu Hu is currently Senior Vice President at Nektar Therapeutics responsible for Data Science and Systems. Before joining Nektar, Dr. Hu was a Vice President, Global Head of Biometrics, at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Takeda, he spent seven years at Pfizer. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Fellow Selection Committee for ASA. He is a...
Michael Wininger, PhD
Michael Wininger is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics. He maintains co-appointments at the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (Statistician of Medicine) and University of Hartford (Assistant Professor). Dr. Wininger's areas of focus are in device data stream analysis, applied algorithmics, clinical trial design and operation.
Zhangsheng Yu
Dr. Yu’s research interests include clinical statistics methods and the collaborative research in health science. He has developed advanced survival methodologies for disease risk analysis. His current research focus on panel count model, cure rate model, and regression models incorporating image using deep neural network. He collaborates with medical investigators in the areas of liver, kidney diseases, anesthesiology etc. He serves as the associate editor or editorial board member of multiple...
Lecturers
Claude Petit, MPH, PhD
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Claude Petit received her Masters’ degree (1993) from one of France’s leading institutions of higher learning in statistics and economics. She earned her Phd, concurrent with a medical degree in 1999 in the field of Biostatistics from the University of Kremlin Bicêtre (France) where she studied under Prof. Jean Maccario, employing Bayesian methods as applied to clinical trials, specifically involving the study and treatment of schizophrenia.
She served as Adjunct Professor in Mathematics &...