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 popultation studies;
asymptotics (theory and approximation); and, various problems in
statistical computing. I currently have students working on models
for both aCGH array data and SNP data, models for bivariate point
processes, smooth methods of estimation for the accelerated failure
time model, and estimating equation methods for recurrent event data.
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,
an interdiscplinary 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
field of Statistics
and I also serve on the
Cornell University Institutional Review Board.
Until recently, I served as the CALS Faculty Senate representative for BSCB.
