Curriculum Vitae

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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

Email

berg@psu.edu

Cell

717-982-7828

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)
  • Member — Penn State Cancer Institute Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (2024–2028)
  • 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

Past Academic Appointments

Years Role Institution
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
  • 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 Math 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 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)

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

  • Expert Witness Services — Biostatistical expert testimony for medical malpractice cases (written reports, depositions, court appearances).
  • Independent Data Monitoring — Independent biostatistician on pharmaceutical clinical trial data monitoring committees.

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