Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Address
Arthur Berg, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health Sciences, A210
Penn State College of Medicine
90 Hope Drive, Suite 2200
Hershey, PA 17033-0855
Education
| Years | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2002–2007 | Ph.D., Mathematics | University of California, San Diego |
| 2002–2005 | M.S., Statistics | University of California, San Diego |
| 1998–2002 | M.A., Mathematics | University of Southern California |
| 1998–2002 | B.S., Mathematics | University of Southern California |
Current Appointments & Leadership
- Lead Biostatistician — Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials, Penn State (2024–present)
- Professor (with tenure) — Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (2022–present)
- Joint Professor — Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Family and Community Medicine, and Statistics
- Member — Penn State Cancer Institute; Cancer Control Program; Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Bioinformatics and Genomics PhD Program Faculty; Biomedical Sciences PhD Program Faculty (2009–present)
Current Editorial Positions
- Editorial Board — Statistics Innovation (2024–present)
- Editorial Board — International Chinese Language Education Communications 《国际中文教育通讯》 (2024–present)
- Editorial Board — Open Journal of Statistics (2020–present)
Past Academic Appointments
| Years | Role | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2024–2025 | Member, Cancer Institute Data Safety and Monitoring Committee | Penn State College of Medicine |
| 2011–2024 | Director, Biostatistics PhD Program | Penn State College of Medicine |
| 2019, 2022 (Summers) | Guest Instructor | Beijing University of Chemical Technology 北京化工大学 |
| 2013–2022 | Associate Professor (with tenure) | Penn State College of Medicine |
| Summer 2019 | Faculty Instructor | MathPath, Grand Valley State University |
| 2011–2015 | Leader, Biomedical Informatics Program | Penn State CTSI |
| 2011–2015 | Director, Bioinformatics Core | Penn State College of Medicine |
| Summer 2011 | Visiting Scholar | Peking University 北京大学 |
| 2009–2013 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) | Penn State College of Medicine |
| 2007–2009 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) | University of Florida, Department of Statistics |
| Winter 2007 | Associate Instructor | UC San Diego, Department of Mathematics |
| 2005–2007 | Adjunct Instructor | San Diego Miramar College |
| 2002–2007 | Teaching Assistant | UC San Diego, Department of Mathematics |
| 1999–2002 | Teaching Assistant | University of Southern California |
| Summers 2001–2003 | Counselor | Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists, Boston University |
Awards
- 2014 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching — Penn State College of Medicine
- 2014 Innovation in Team Science Award — Penn State Faculty Research Recognition Awards
- 2013 Society of Distinguished Educators Junior Faculty Teaching Award (Finalist)
- 2008 University of Florida IFAS Research Innovation Award
- 2005–2006 UCSD Mathematics Department Outstanding TA Award
Courses Taught
Penn State College of Medicine
- PHS 528: Bayesian Methods (2013–2024, Spring)
- PHS 583: Asymptotic Tools (2023–2024, Spring)
- PHS 525: Biostatistics for Lab Scientists (2011–2014, Spring)
Penn State University (Main Campus)
- PHS 516 / STA 597E: Statistical Genetics (Spring 2010, co-taught with Rongling Wu)
Beijing University of Chemical Technology (short courses)
- Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Rethinking (Summer 2022)
- Probability, Statistics, and Bayesian Analysis (Summer 2019)
MathPath Summer Camp (Grand Valley State University)
- An Introduction to R and Monte Carlo Simulation (Summer 2019)
- AIME Contest Preparation (Summer 2019)
University of Florida
- STA 5325 / STA 4321: Introduction to Probability
- STA 5856 / STA 4853: Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting
- STA 6857: Applied Time Series Analysis
UC San Diego / San Diego Miramar College
- MATH 10B: Second-Semester Calculus (UCSD)
- MATH 252: Calculus with Analytic Geometry III
- MATH 96: Intermediate Algebra and Geometry
- MATH 119: Elementary Statistics
Selected Publications
A short list of featured papers chosen for their breadth across methodological biostatistics, clinical collaboration, and interdisciplinary applications of data science. For the full list (270+ publications), see the Research page.
- Berg, A. (2025). Entropy-based Sound-Character Mapping for Chinese Character Learning. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 6(2), 63–89.
- Farkas, G.J., Caldera, L.J., …, Berg, A. (2025). Cardiometabolic Risk in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis and Temporal and Geographical Trends. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(2872), 1–31.
- Hawila, N., Berg, A., et al. (2023). Exact-corrected confidence interval for risk difference in noninferiority binomial trials. Biometrics, 79(2), 1133–1144.
- Hawila, N., Berg, A. (2021). Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on registered interventional clinical trials. Clinical and Translational Science, 14(3), 1147–1154.
- Berg, A. (2021). Statistical analysis of the International Mathematical Olympiad. The Mathematical Intelligencer, 43(1), 105–112.
- Liao, J.G., Berg, A. (2019). Sharpening Jensen’s inequality. The American Statistician, 73(3), 278–281.
Selected Extramural Support
Current (selected)
- Targeting Aldehyde Dehydrogenase for Cancer Prevention — NCI R01 CA241148 (Biostatistician; PI: Robertson), $3.17M, 2020–2025
- Linking olfactory deficits to memory impairment and AD neurodegeneration — NIA R01 AG070088 (Co-Investigator; PI: Karunanayaka), $3.93M, 2021–2025
- Phase II Study of Abemaciclib in Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma — Lilly USA (Biostatistician; PI: Yee), $383K, 2020–2025
- Neuro-pharmacological Properties of Repurposed Posaconazole in Glioblastoma — NCI R03 CA255992 (Biostatistician; PI: Mansouri), 2022–2025
- Identifying Novel Approaches for Melanoma Prevention — DoD (Biostatistician; PI: Robertson), $830K, 2023–2026
- Combination Therapy for Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia — Four Diamonds Fund (Biostatistician; PI: Sharma), $250K, 2023–2025
- A Unique Small Molecule for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer — DoD (Biostatistician; PI: Sharma), $1.26M, 2024–2027
See the PDF CV for the complete list of current, pending, and completed grants.
Service
Grant Review
- Scientific Merit Review Panel, Healthcare Informatics Health Services Research, Department of Veterans Affairs (2020–2024)
- Special Member, National Eye Institute Clinical Review Meeting (2021)
- NIH Study Section — Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics (BCHI), 2016
Institutional (Penn State, selected)
- Elected Faculty Senator, Penn State Faculty Senate (2026–2030)
- Member, Penn State University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee (2024–2026)
- Faculty Development Advisory Committee (2021–present)
- Public Health Sciences Program Directors & Executive Committee (2012–present)
- Penn State Faculty Senate (2015–2019)
- Penn State Cancer Institute Scientific Review Committee (2010–2019)
- Institutional Review Board, Board A (2010–2016)
See the PDF CV for the full list of editorial, review, and committee service.
Selected Presentations
2025
- 基于熵值分析的汉语音形映射：通过语音分析提升语言学习 — 8th International Forum on Linguistics and Chinese Education, Princeton, April 2025
- Targepeutics DIPG Trial — Phase II Primary Endpoint — Beat Childhood Cancer Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, March 2025
2024
- End of Induction Response Correlates with Clinical Outcomes In Patients with High-Risk Neuroblastoma — Beat Childhood Cancer Annual Meeting, Feb 2024
2021
- Statistical Analysis of the International Mathematical Olympiad — MAA MathFest Conference, August 2021
- Introducing Bayesian Inference with the Taxicab Problem — 10th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS 2021)
- Sharpening Jensen’s Inequality with Applications — Australian Statistical Society / NZSA Conference (ANZSC 2021)
2019
- Advancing the Bayesian New Statistics Paradigm with Interval Null Hypotheses — 2019 U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), Penn State
- Probability, Statistics, and Bayesian Analysis — Summer short course, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
- Introduction to R and Monte Carlo Simulation — MathPath Summer Camp, Grand Valley State University
Earlier highlights
- Reduced Bias in Nonparametric Censored Density and Hazard Estimation — Conference on Lifetime Data Science, University of Connecticut, 2017
- Robustified Bayesian Inference — Penn State Division of Biostatistics Seminar, 2017
- Sleep Disordered Breathing and DNA Methylation of Obesity-Related Genes in Adolescents — European Sleep Research Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, 2016
- A Statistical Potpourri: Swarthmorean Proportions, Fourier Transforms, Group Representations, and More — Swarthmore College, 2016
- Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trial Design — Penn State Neurosurgery EBM Seminar, 2016
- Empirical Bayes Inference Made Robust: Picking Up Where James–Stein Left Off — Temple University, 2012
- Standing Between a Bayesian and a Frequentist — Williams College (2011), Cal State Long Beach (2011)
- New Functional Clustering Methodology and Applications — Peking University, 2010
- A Bootstrap Test for Time Series Linearity — Conference on Resampling Methods and High-Dimensional Data, College Station, TX, 2010
- Improving the Kaplan–Meier Estimator — 2009 AMS Sectional Meeting, Florida Atlantic University
- Resampling the Bispectrum — Workshop on Bootstrap and Time Series, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2008
Full list available in the PDF CV.
Graduate Advising
Selected PhD Committees
- Nour Hawila (PSU Biostatistics, advisor) — Confidence intervals for noninferiority testing; Bayesian joint modeling of reliability; topics in biostatistical modeling and statistics education. Graduated June 2023.
- Chenqi (Stacey) Fu (PSU Biostatistics, committee) — Early-phase clinical trial designs based on predictive Bayes factor and Bayesian model averaging.
- Daniel McGuire (PSU Biostatistics, committee) — Replicability in GWAS and large-scale EHR datasets. Graduated 2021.
- Renan Sauteraud (PSU Biostatistics, committee) — Functional genomic analysis of the X chromosome. Graduated 2021.
- Vishal Midya (PSU Biostatistics, co-advisor with Jason Liao) — Frequentist and Bayesian hypothesis testing with meaningful effect sizes. Graduated 2020.
See the PDF CV for additional PhD, Master’s, and directed-study advising.
Other Professional Activities
- AI-Powered Research & Workflow Consulting — Advising researchers, professionals, and organizations on practical adoption of generative-AI tooling (cloud-based and locally-hosted LLM deployments) for literature and evidence organization, document and data-pipeline automation, statistical workflow support, and custom integrations.
- Expert Witness Services — Biostatistical expert opinions and testimony in medical malpractice, pharmaceutical, and scientific causation matters: written reports, depositions, trial testimony, and Daubert/Frye admissibility analyses.
- Independent Data Monitoring — Independent biostatistician on Data Safety and Monitoring Committees (DSMCs/DMCs) for investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials, including unblinded interim analyses and statistical-monitoring plan review.
See the Services page for more details.
Music
- 2025/09–present — Director of Music, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lemoyne, PA
- 2025/01–2025/09 — Organist & Pianist, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Highspire, PA
- 2025/01–2025/05 — Organist & Pianist, Salem Lutheran Church, Oberlin, PA
- 2020–2024 — Organist & Pianist, Renewed in Grace Co-Op (Trinity Lutheran, Steelton, PA & St. Peter’s Lutheran, Highspire, PA)
- 2018–2020 — Choir Director, Organist & Pianist, Trinity Lutheran Church, Steelton, PA
- 2015–2018 — Pianist, Paxton Church of the Brethren, Harrisburg, PA
- 1994–1998 — Pianist, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Long Beach, CA
See the Music page for more details.