About
I am a tenured Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Family and Community Medicine, and Statistics. I directed Penn State’s Biostatistics PhD Program from 2011 to 2024, and currently serve as Lead Biostatistician for Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials at Penn State.
My research spans methodological biostatistics and applied collaborations across oncology, neuroscience, spinal cord injury, environmental physiology, and more. Recent methodological interests include Bayesian clinical trial design, statistical genetics, and interdisciplinary applications of data science — including an entropy-based approach to Chinese character learning.
I also serve as an independent biostatistician on clinical trial data monitoring committees and provide biostatistical expert-witness services.
Highlights
273 Publications
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Lead Biostatistician
Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials, Penn State (2024–present)
Director (2011–2024)
Penn State Biostatistics PhD Program
Editor
Statistics Innovation — Editorial Board (2024–present)
Education
Ph.D. & M.S. — UC San Diego
M.A. & B.S. — University of Southern California
Joint Appointments
Professor — Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Family & Community Medicine, and Statistics
Memberships
- Penn State Cancer Institute
- Cancer Institute, Cancer Control Program
- Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Bioinformatics and Genomics PhD Program Faculty
- Biomedical Sciences PhD Program Faculty