Faculty, Student, and Staff Awards 2022
Faculty Awards
Christine Mauro, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, has received the MSPH Core Teaching Award for “Mind-set Intervention for a Graduate-Level Biostatistics Course: Research-based Strategies to Mitigate Threats to Academic Belonging” (with Leah Hooper, MSPH Senior Director of Educational Initiatives).
Caleb Miles, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, has received the Calderone Junior Faculty Development Award for “Integrating data from studies with heterogeneous outcomes to estimate effects of cognitive remediation therapy”. This award supports research efforts initiated by full-time junior faculty members holding appointments in one of the departments at the Mailman School.
Linda Valeri, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will receive funding from the The Sanford Bolton Faculty Scholars Program, which supports distinguished assistant professors to catalyze their innovative methodological research in biostatistics and enhance its translational impact.
Zhezhen Jin, Professor of Biostatistics, has been elected to be a Fellow of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and an elected member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute). He has also been appointed Statistical Editor for JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging for 2022-27.
Yuanjia Wang, Professor of Biostatistics, has been elected to be the Section Chair of Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
Student Awards and Defenses
The Sanford Bolton-John Fertig Award for a distinguished doctoral dissertation in Biostatistics
Yuan Chen, PhD, for “Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Precision Medicine”.
The Joseph L Fleiss Memorial Prize in Biostatistics
Erin J. McDonnell, PhD, for “Dynamic graphical models and curve registration for high-dimensional time course data”.
Chair’s Awards for Outstanding Master’s Students in recognition of outstanding academic and research achievement in Practicum Projects
Rachel Heise, MS, for “U-Net and Autoencoder Methods for White Matter Hyperintensity Segmentation”.
Colby Lewis, MS, for “The AxialNet Autoencoder: Performing Group rs-fMRI using Nonlinear Feature ICA”.
Bin Yang, MS, for “Identifying Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect Using Causal Forest”.
Doctoral Defenses from January - December 2022
Angel Garcia de La Garza, PhD, “Functional Data Analysis and Machine Learning for High-Dimensional Structured Data”.
Bo Hu, PhD, “The Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Covariates and Censored Quantile Regression for Health Applications”.
Denise Shieh, PhD, “Functional and parametric modeling methods for PET imaging data”.
Tianchen Xu, PhD, “Statistical Methods for Learning Patients Heterogeneity and Treatment Effects to Achieve Precision Medicine”.
Yujing Yao, PhD, “Statistical Analysis of Large Scale Data with Perturbation Subsampling”.
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Staff Award for Excellence
Weijia Fan, MS - Weijia has been a Data Analyst since graduating from our department in 2017. She is an integral part of the consulting service of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Resource for the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.