Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Faculty

Primary Faculty

Raymond R Balise, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

(650) 555-1212
Raymond Balise, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Before joining the University of Miami, he spent 17 years at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he served as a biostatistician and senior lecturer. He also held leadership roles as...

Yuguang Ban

Research Asst. Professor

(208) 305-6332
Yuguang Ban, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and a member of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has collaborated extensively with cancer genomics researchers at Sylvester since joining the University of Miami in 2015 and has served...

Michele Ceccarelli

Research Professor

Michele Ceccarelli, PhD, is a research professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His research group has made significant contributions to cancer systems biology and has played a leading role in international cancer big data analysis consortia, including ATLAS-TCGA and other...

Xi Steven Chen

Professor

Xi Steven Chen, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He leads the Translational Statistical Bioinformatics Lab, which integrates data science and statistical methods with genomic research to advance understanding of cancer and other complex diseases. Dr. Chen has...

Daniel A Diaz

Research Asst. Professor

(305) 243-4797
Daniel Diaz, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Miami. He earned his doctorate in probability from the University of São Paulo in Brazil and a bachelor’s degree in statistics, with minors in mathematics and biostatistics, from the Universidad Nacional...

Daniel J Feaster, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 243-7881
Daniel J. Feaster, PhD, is a tenured professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He has more than 30 years of experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of substance use and HIV-related studies.Dr. Feaster has served as a statistician on more than 30...

Yan Guo

Professor

Yan Guo, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves as chief of biostatistics and bioinformatics research innovation at Sylvester. Dr. Guo holds a...

Hemant Ishwaran

Professor

(305) 243-5473
Hemant Ishwaran, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His research focuses on developing machine learning methods for complex biomedical and time‑to‑event data and translating these methods into practical, open‑source tools for...

Limin Jiang

Research Asst. Professor

Limin Jiang, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the application of multi‑omics data and artificial intelligence methods to advance cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Dr. Jiang’s work lies at...

Tulay Koru-Sengul

Research Professor

(305) 243-2618
Tulay Koru-Sengul, PhD, is a research professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She serves as graduate program director for the Master of Science in Biostatistics within the Division of Biostatistics and is the lead faculty member overseeing the Master of Science in Public Health...

Min Lu

Research Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-3001
Min Lu, PhD, is a research associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She earned her doctoral degree in biostatistics from the University of Miami in 2018. Dr. Lu’s research focuses on developing and integrating machine learning methods to...

Shari Messinger, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 243-4465
Shari Messinger, PhD, is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and director of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She also serves as director of the Research Design and Biostatistics Program at the Miami Clinical and Translational Science...

Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello

Research Asst. Professor

Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics within the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She previously served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Ceccarelli Lab at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Noviello...

Yue Pan

Research Assoc. Professor

(305) 243-9747
Yue Pan, PhD, is a research associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His expertise spans clinical biostatistics and social and behavioral statistics, including clinical trial design, randomization, measurement instrument evaluation, data monitoring, and...

Jie Ping

Research Asst. Professor

Jie Ping, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and in the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. With a background in bioinformatics and genetic epidemiology, his research focuses on the biological mechanisms, risk and...

Isildinha M Reis, Ph.D.

Research Professor

(305) 243-5884
Isildinha Reis, DrPH, is a research professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and a member of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource. She joined the University of Miami and Sylvester Biostatistics in 1999. From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Reis served as director of...

Lily Wang

Professor

(615) 397-7789
Lily Wang, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is affiliated with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, where she serves as co-director of the Statistical and Bioinformatics Consulting Core within the...

Fei Ye

Pending Rank at Professor

Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, executive director for quantitative sciences, and assistant director for statistics for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System.She earned both her MSPH and PhD in...

Secondary Faculty


Swarup Swaminathan

Associate Professor of Clinical

Dr. Swarup Swaminathan is a board-certified ophthalmologist focused on caring for patients with cataracts or glaucoma. A magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Swaminathan completed his residency here at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He subsequently...

Lan Wang

Professor
Department Chair, Management Science

(305) 284-9562
Dr. Wang's research focus covers several interrelated areas: optimal personalized decision recommendations, quantile regression, high-dimensional statistical learning and statistical applications. Most of her work has been driven by applications in different disciplines, including healthcare, economics, engineering and sociology. She is an...


Emeritus Faculty

J. Sunil Rao

Professor Emeritus

(305) 243-4252
J. Sunil Rao, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He previously served as interim chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences and was formerly a professor of biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Rao’s...

Voluntary Faculty

Portrait of Sunwoo Han

Sunwoo Han

Voluntary Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences


Portrait of Robert Makuch, Ph.D.

Robert Makuch

Voluntary Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

Primary Appointment: Department of Biostatistics, Yale University


Portrait of Gabriel Odom

Gabriel Odom

Voluntary Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

Primary Appointment: Department of Biostatistics, Florida International University


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