Valentine Wanga
Advisor: Bryan Shepherd
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington; BS, Biochemistry, Mount St. Joseph University
At Elevance Health since 2024. Currently Senior Researcher.
Advisor: Bryan Shepherd
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington; BS, Biochemistry, Mount St. Joseph University
At Elevance Health since 2024. Currently Senior Researcher.
Advisor: Qingxia "Cindy" Chen
PhD, Computer Science, Vanderbilt University; ME and BE, Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2018. Currently Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science.
In the news:
EHRs, biobanks, and Mendelian diseases (VUMC News, 2020)
Researchers find high-risk genes for schizophrenia (VUMC News, 2019)
Thesis: Sparse Network-regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Applications to Tumor Subtyping
Advisor: Yu Shyr
PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Idaho; MS, Mathematics, University of Idaho; BS, Computational Mathematics, Nanjing University
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2015. Currently Research Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Dissertation: Managing Disease Outbreaks: Current Approaches, An Artificial Intelligence Alternative, and Its Performance
Advisor: Christopher Fonnesbeck
BS, Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
At the Department of Defense. Currently Data Scientist.
Advisor: Bryan Shepherd
MS, Biochemistry (minor in Statistics), Iowa State University; BS, Biology/Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
At Merck since 2016. Currently Senior Scientist.
Dissertation: Using observational data in healthcare research: New methods to design, conduct, and analyze efficient two-phase designs
Advisors: Bryan Shepherd and Ran Tao
BS, Statistics, University of Florida
At Wake Forest University since 2022. Currently Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences, Biostatistics and Data Science.
Dissertation: On Optimal Prediction Rules with Prospective Missingness and Bagged Empirical Null Inference in Large-Scale Data
Advisor: Jeffrey Blume
BA, Mathematics, Colorado College
At Mass General Brigham since 2022. Currently Lead Biostatistician, AI CRO (Artificial Intelligence Clinical Research Organization), Data Science Office.
Dissertation: Design and Analysis Consideration for Complex Longitudinal and Survey Sampling Studies
Advisor: Jonathan Schildcrout
MS, Biostatistics, University of Washington; BS, Applied Mathematics and Microbiology, University of Idaho
At Massachusetts General Hospital since 2017. Currently Co-chair of Statistics.
Advisor: Robert Greevy
MEd, Secondary Education, Vanderbilt University; BA, Religious Studies, Yale University
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2017. Currently Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics.