Faculty Spotlight

Our faculty members are renowned researchers who mentor and collaborate with students.

"My work heavily involves population based data sets, mining information from them to enhance knowledge and practice of public health."
9/10/26
Jihnhee Yu, PhD
Professor
Director, Population Health Observatory
"My current research focuses on developing new diagnostic measures and new evaluation methods for measuring biomarkers’ performance."
9/10/26
Lili Tian, PhD
Associate Chair
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
"The focus of my statistical research has primarily resided in four broad areas such as experimental designs, statistical genetics, small sample inference, and paired binary data inference."
9/10/26
Chang-Xing Ma, PhD
Co-Director, Biostatistics MPH Concentration
Associate Professor
"It’s a high-risk, high-impact project that has the potential to bring us closer to personalized medicine and, in particular with this project, to leverage computational biology to make predictions about things we can’t measure.”
9/10/26
Rachael Hageman Blair, PhD
Associate Professor
"I collaborate extensively with NIH investigators evaluating practical aspects of new biomarker methodologies."
9/10/26
Albert Vexler, PhD
Professor

Biostatistics at a glance

Undergraduate

Statistics Minor
Statistics BA

Graduate and Professional

Bioinformatics and Biostatistics MS
Biostatistics MA
Biostatistics MPH
Biostatistics PhD

Certificates

Advanced Graduate Certificate in Applied Biostatistics
Advanced Graduate Certificate in Biostatistical Informatics

Number of Faculty

13 core faculty
24 affiliated faculty

Funded Research