2024: Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2024: COVID-19 Response Award as part of the NHLBI Director’s Awards Program (team member of Dr. Sameer Kadri’s Clinical Epidemiology Lab at NIH Clinical Center)
2023: Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award, American Statistical Association
2006: Barry H. Margolin Dissertation Award (UNC-CH)
2004: Distinguished Student Paper Award (ENAR)
2008 & 2009: Travel Awards from IMS Young Researcher Conference and ENAR Junior Researcher Workshop, respectively
Background
Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at The George Washington University
Research focuses on the development of statistical methods for the design and analysis of biomedical and public health studies
Current research areas include semiparametric models, precision medicine, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, and computational probability
Applied work spans genetics, disability and rehabilitation, and policing and criminology
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and industry