I am thrilled and deeply grateful to share that our team has received a competing continuation of our NIH R01 from the National Institute on Aging. Project title: Transforming Clinical Trials for Elderly and Rare Cancers through Intelligent and Robust… Continue Reading
Dear All, Please join me in congratulating Yujing Gao, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on August 11, titled “Semiparametric Methods for Clinical Trial Design and Inference with External Controls and Irregular Assessments.” She will soon be joining Eli Lilly.… Continue Reading
Dear All, I guess it is officially defense season! I am happy to share more good news from our master’s students. Charles Harding successfully defended his master’s thesis this afternoon, titled “Selection Bias During Enrollment in Randomized Controlled Trials: Consequences… Continue Reading
Honored and grateful to share that I have been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Any progress I have made is truly the result of a wonderful community, and, perhaps, quite a bit of coffee. My sincere thanks… Continue Reading
Happy to share that two of our papers have been accepted by The Annals of Applied Statistics. One paper develops Penalized Fast Causal Inference for causal structure learning in high-dimensional sparse biomarker data, with application to biomarker discovery in Parkinson’s… Continue Reading
Dr. Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty Award This award is named for Cavell Brownie, who was a faculty member at NC State from 1982-2007. Professor Brownie was outstanding in every way. She was a great teacher with high evaluations alongside demanding… Continue Reading