Eric Peterson, M.D., is Fred Cobb, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University , Associate Director of DCRI, and Director of Cardiovascular Research at DCRI. Dr. Peterson is a clinical cardiologist with formal quantitative training including a MPH from Harvard School of Public Health with emphasis in epidemiology and biostatistics. He has considerable health services research experience, and he is a lead investigator on a number of registry projects as well as member of numerous government and professional advisory committees.
Leonard A. Stefanski, Ph.D., is Drexel Professor of Statistics at NCSU. Dr. Stefanski is a world authority on statistical inference in the presence of measurement error, and is the originator of the popular simulation-extrapolation (SIMEX) method, which has seen widespread application. He is current Editor of the Theory and Methods Section of Journal of the American Statistical Association. He is a Fellow of the ASA and has extensive experience collaborating with scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency's research laboratories in Research Triangle Park, NC, on problems related to exposure to environmental pollutants and contaminants. He has directed over 25 doctoral dissertations.
Anastasios A. Tsiatis, Ph.D., is Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics at NCSU and Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University. Dr. Tsiatis is recognized worldwide for fundamental work in survival analysis, group sequential clinical trials, causal inference, and joint modeling of survival and longitudinal data. He is a recipient of the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and is a Fellow of the ASA and the IMS. He is the recipient of a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is currently Co-Editor of the journal Biostatistics. Dr. Tsiatis has served on numerous Data Safety and Monitoring Boards as well as on FDA advisory committees. He has served as doctoral dissertation advisor to almost 40 students.
Jung-Ying Tzeng, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Statistics, NCSU. Dr. Tzeng's research focuses on haplotype-based association analysis and on how optimally to incorporate abundant DNA sequence information to improve and generalize existing association analysis tools, and generalization of association tests based on haplotype similarity that will allow elucidation of gene-disease association on the basis of complex models. She has directed six doctoral dissertations.
Daowen Zhang, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, NCSU. Dr. Zhang is a worldwide authority on methods for the analysis of longitudinal data using smoothing techniques. He has developed important new statistical methods for the analysis of hormone data that have uncovered important features that could not be identified using standard techniques. Dr. Zhang has served as doctoral dissertation advisor to 10 students.
Hao Helen Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Statistics, NCSU. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on the development of novel nonparametric variable selection methods such as support vector machines (SVMs). Dr. Zhang is recipient of a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. She has directed the doctoral dissertation research for over 10 students.
