Introduction
I am a professor in the Departments of
Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
(BSCB)
and Statistical Science
at Cornell
University. I graduated from Rutgers College, the
main undergraduate college of Rutgers University, in 1988 with a
BA in Mathematics. I earned both my masters and doctoral degrees in Biostatistics at Harvard University.
Before coming to Cornell, I was a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics
at the University of Michigan.
I am part of a family tradition in statistics: my father
is a Professor of Statistics at
Rutgers, and my wife is a consulting statistician in
the
Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell.
My major research area is survival analysis, with a focus on problems
involving recurrent event data. More generally, I am interested in
statistical inference for point process data; outcome prediction in
medicine, epidemiology and public health; evaluating the cost and
quality of health care; demography and population studies; asymptotics
(theory and approximation); and, various problems in statistical
computing. Recently, my students have worked on methods for analyzing
high dimensional datasets, wavelets methods for aCGH data, models for
bivariate point processes, smooth methods of estimation for the
accelerated failure time model, estimating equation methods for
recurrent event data, and prediction methods in survival analysis. I
am currently (or have recently) engaged in a variety of collaborative
activities, including cardiology, health services research, social
science research in public health and nutrition, watershed modeling,
genomics, genetic epidemiology, and veterinary medicine. Most
recently, I have become involved in the Cornell Population Program (CPP)
as the director of its statistics core. The CPP is an
interdisciplinary group of Cornell researchers with interests in
demography and population research.
In terms of noteworthy professional and university-level activities, I
have continuously served as an Associate Editor for
JASA (Theory &
Methods) since 1997.
I also serve as an Associate Editor for
The Electronic Journal of
Statistics and as a moderator for
arXiv
( stat.TH).
I am an elected
Fellow
of the
ASA
and also a member of both
ENAR
and IMS.
At Cornell, I am the Director of
Graduate Studies
for the fields of
Statistics and
Biometry.
In addition to these two fields,
I am also a member of the fields of
Operations Research and Information Engineering and
Epidemiology.
I currently serve as an alternate for the
University Faculty Senate
and previously served as the
CALS Faculty Senate
representative for BSCB.
I also recently stepped down from the
Cornell University Institutional Review Board for Human Participants.
