Thesis: Prediction of Accelerometer Activity through Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning

Advisor: Leena Choi

BA, Neurobiology, College of Wooster

At Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2022. Currently Senior Biostatistician.

Thesis: A Comparison of Approaches for Unplanned Sample Size Changes in Phase II Clinical Trials

Advisor: Tatsuki Koyama

BS, Statistics, University of Minnesota, Morris

At Sportradar since 2022. Currently Data Scientist.

Thesis: Assessment of Propensity Score Performance in Small Samples

Advisor: Tatsuki Koyama

PhD, Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; MS, Public Health Sciences, Penn State University; BS, Psychology (Cognitive and Neuroscience focus), Davidson College

At Emory University since 2020. Currently Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics.

Thesis: Prediction of disease severity in Jordanian patients with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the presence of missingness

Advisor: Andrew Spieker

BS, Biology (Applied Statistics minor), Western Kentucky University

At Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2022. Currently Biostatistician.

Thesis: Impact of Severity of Illness on Health State Transitions During Intensive Care Unit Admission: Application of Markov Multi-State Transition Modeling

Advisor: Frank Harrell

MS, Evidence-Based Health Care, University of Oxford; MBA and MPH, Rutgers University; MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery), University of Ibadan

At Williamson Health. Currently Hospitalist.

Thesis: Outcome Misclassification in Logistic Regression: Examining Hospitalization Risk and its Association with Health Literacy

Advisor: Jonathan Schildcrout

BS, Mathematics (Biology and Scientific Computing minors), Vanderbilt University

At Chiesi since 2024. Currently Senior Data Scientist, Rare Diseases.

Thesis: Improving Drug Sensitivity Prediction and Inference by Multitask Learning

Advisor: Amir Asiaee

BS, Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

At Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2024. Currently Biostatistician.

Thesis: Assessing Risk Score Calculation in the Presence of Uncollected Risk Factors

Advisor: Dandan Liu

BA, University of Minnesota

At UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) since 2018. Currently Biostatistician.
 

Thesis: A Modified Random Forest Kernel for Highly Nonstationary Gaussian Process Regression with Application to Clinical Data

Advisor: Christopher Fonnesbeck

MPH, Yale University; MD, Vanderbilt University; PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University; BA, Baylor University

At Bassett Healthcare Network since 2024. Currently Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer.

Thesis: A Bayesian Model for Brain Network Functional Connectivity using PyMC3

Advisor: Hakmook Kang

PhD, Physics, Vanderbilt University; BS, Physics, Nanjing University

At Uber since 2022. Currently Machine Learning Engineer.