Primary Faculty Within Biostatistics
Professors, Assistant Professors and Associate Professors
![Karen Bandeen-Roche Karen Bandeen-Roche](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/35.png?h=75b94551&itok=uy3C_7SH)
Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, MS, creates statistical reasoning needed to learn how we can lengthen healthy life and increase independence for older adults.
![Brian Caffo Brian Caffo](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/1010.jpg?h=38d6c1e4&itok=uxNI2gqP)
Brian Caffo, PhD, MS, is a biostatistician who studies big, complex data in the neurosciences.
![Nilanjan Chatterjee Nilanjan Chatterjee](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/1826.png?h=6adc4826&itok=7EyWKYdN)
Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD, MS, models disease risk associated with genetic, lifestyle, biomarkers. and other factors, with the goal of improving disease prevention.
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Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD, MS, is a biostatistician who works on complex, high dimensional data obtained from wearable and implantable computing and neuroimaging studies.
![Marie Diener-West Marie Diener-West](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/180.jpg?h=c0588ea6&itok=oW0es16F)
Marie Diener-West, PhD ’84, Chair of MPH Program and Professor of Biostatistics, teaches and collaborates in the design, conduct, and analysis of multicenter clinical trials.
![Kasper Hansen Kasper Hansen](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2742.jpg?h=8371fe13&itok=otIJtOA5)
Kasper D. Hansen, PhD is an applied statistician who developed methods and software for high-throughput genomics and genetics.
![Stephanie Hicks Stephanie Hicks](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/3639.jpg?h=04d92ac6&itok=Fj3WewrP)
Stephanie Hicks, PhD, MA, in an applied statistician who develops methods, tools and open source software for the analysis of genomics data.
![Hongkai Ji Hongkai Ji](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/1943.jpg?h=038a9462&itok=_6kyRxVO)
Hongkai Ji, PhD, MA, ME, develops data science and statistical methods for analyzing high-throughput and single cell genomic data in order to study gene regulation.
![Martin Lindquist Martin Lindquist](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2760.jpg?h=4d4201bb&itok=tgTJrrvr)
Martin Lindquist, MSc, PhD, works on mathematical and statistical problems relating to neuroimaging with a particular focus on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data.
![Thomas Louis Thomas Louis](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/900.jpg?h=c1b0c2e3&itok=yUxZbCs_)
Thomas A. Louis, PhD, collaborates on biomedical studies and surveys using the Bayesian framework as an aid to navigation.
![Akihiko Nishimura Akihiko Nishimura](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/4065.jpg?h=4f789516&itok=YBCwltp3)
Aki Nishimura, PhD, MS, uses Bayesian methods and statistical computing to tackle methodological challenges in healthcare analytics and large-scale biomedical applications.
![Elizabeth Ogburn Elizabeth Ogburn](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2877.png?h=16ec4b77&itok=U2N9txBL)
Betsy Ogburn, PhD, MS, develops methods for causal inference with complex data, including social network data and data with unmeasured confounding or interference.
![Roger Peng Roger Peng](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/1549.png?h=de5349b9&itok=SPAn5ooG)
Roger Peng, PhD, MS, develops data science and machine learning approaches to studying how the indoor and outdoor environment affects human health.
![Michael Rosenblum Michael Rosenblum](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2241.jpg?h=c512197e&itok=pZyJOllp)
Michael Rosenblum, PhD, MS, develops innovative clinical trial designs and open-source software to efficiently learn which treatments work best for which populations.
![Mei-Cheng Wang Mei-Cheng Wang](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/733.jpg?h=86045240&itok=QILTZq2i)
Mei-Cheng Wang, PhD, develops analytical methods for time-to-event data, recurrent events, and recurrent marker processes, with applications for follow-up and longitudinal studies.
![Scott Zeger Scott Zeger](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/784.jpg?h=16b768a2&itok=b2bidqvQ)
Scott L. Zeger, PhD co-directs the Hopkins inHealth program, a university-wide collaboration to use medical data more intelligently to improve health outcomes and lower costs.
![Ni Zhao Ni Zhao](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/3331.png?h=22e65fee&itok=RHPGWW_9)
Ni Zhao, MS, MD, PhD, develops statistical and computational methodologies for analyzing large scale "omics" data generated from high throughput technologies, including metagenomics, genomics, and others.
Assistant, Associate and Senior Scientists
![Joshua Betz Joshua Betz](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2679.jpg?h=40eb6c54&itok=WHr8keWE)
Josh Betz, MS, brings rigorous and reproducible quantitative methods to complex data sources, allowing researchers to address research challenges in public health,
![Elizabeth Colantuoni Elizabeth Colantuoni](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/800.jpg?h=852176a3&itok=gcgkt7pe)
Elizabeth Colantuoni, PhD '07, ScM, works to improve the design and analysis of research studies conducted among neonates, children and adults with critical illness.
![John McGready John McGready](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/801.jpeg?h=c16aae69&itok=EchOeen6)
John McGready, PhD '08, ScM, shares the joy, importance, and utility of biostatistics with students, and works closely with faculty and clinicians on public-health research.
![John Muschelli John Muschelli](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2438.jpg?h=d8d29c80&itok=CKU4TNvC)
John Muschelli, PhD '16, ScM '10, studies how biostatistics and data science can use neuroimaging and accelerometry data to improve clinical practice.
![Margaret Taub Margaret Taub](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2744.jpg?h=4e7012f0&itok=D8UkBsM6)
Margaret Taub, PhD, works collaboratively with clinicians and epidemiologists to use genetic and genomic data to understand the causes of complex diseases.
![Jiangxia Wang Jiangxia Wang](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2179.jpg?h=e60ed417&itok=mwoaN8Hh)
Jiangxia Wang, MA, MS, teaches and provides statistical consulting to advance research in public health and medicine with a focus on studies in neurology and ophthalmology.
![Carrie Wright Carrie Wright](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/3940.jpg?h=0bde4451&itok=9G7_y_LZ)
Carrie Wright, PhD, works on making data science and bioinformatics more approachable and accessible to wide audiences of varied computational experience.
![Gayane Yenokyan Gayane Yenokyan](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2278.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=SXgjEeQe)
Gayane Yenokyan, MD, PhD '09, MHS '09, MPH, is a consulting statistician leading the Biostatistics Center and co-directing the JH ICTR Biostatistics Program.
![Weiqiang Zhou Weiqiang Zhou](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/3739.jpg?h=ccdf4b2d&itok=6LSoFQw-)
Weiqiang Zhou, PhD, develops statistical and computational tools for integrative analysis of large-scale genomic data to study gene regulation in cancer and immune system.
Senior Research Associates and Research Associates
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Mary Joy Argo ensures the high quality of Biostatistics graduate programs and the quality of the student experience.
![Gwendolyn Clemens Gwendolyn Clemens](/sites/default/files/styles/people_card_360/public/images/2765.jpg?h=dd4f9da7&itok=MzoZLN40)
Gwendolyn Clemens, MS ‘03, uses data management skills to ensure integrity of data in studies, spanning planning, implementation, data collection, and preparation of datasets.