Scholar
Julian Wolfson
Google Scholar ID: W4sIgrIAAAAJ
Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,751
H-index
27
i10-index
69
Publications
20
Co-authors
44
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded the Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2016. Serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Biostatistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), specifically as an Associate Editor for Reproducibility (AER).
Research Experience
- Serves as lead statistician on a number of clinical trials, consults on small projects with a wide variety of investigators, and participates in interdisciplinary research teams pursuing longer-term research projects. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Daynamica, a University of Minnesota startup company that offers smartphone-based data collection, storage, and analysis to researchers and organizations who want to better understand human activity and travel behavior.
Education
- Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington in 2009, supervised by Prof. Peter Gilbert at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. B.Sc. Joint Honours in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in 2004.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning, particularly as applied to large, messy datasets. He has applied his methods to problems such as finding surrogate endpoints in clinical trials, identifying relevant explanatory variables in the presence of correlation and measurement error, predicting the risk of heart attacks using electronic health record data, and understanding human behavior patterns using smartphone sensor data.
Miscellany
- Proudly Canadian, with three kids (including twins!). If he had spare time, he would enjoy playing squash and golf, and experimenting in the kitchen.
