Biostatistics

Our researchers are nationally recognized experts in biostatistics. Their work affects medical research, health care, genetic research, cancer research, and biometrics.

Biostatistics research in the Department of Statistics addresses complex challenges across medicine, public health, biotechnology, and digital health. Our work drives innovation in areas such as clinical trial design, biomedical imaging, and personalized medicine, providing statistical frameworks that improve diagnostics, treatment, and decision-making in real-world healthcare settings.

Our focus areas include high-dimensional data analysis; longitudinal and spatiotemporal modeling; and applications in genomics, epidemiology, neuroscience, mobile health, electronic health records (EHR), EEG and fMRI imaging, and digital twin technologies. Additional areas of expertise span risk modeling, causal inference, machine learning, natural language processing, and non-convex optimization, ensuring reliable insights in both clinical and computational environments.