Abbas F. Jawad has earned his MSc (1986) and PhD (1993) from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been providing biostatistical support for medical pediatric research for more than 20 years.

Biomedical Research, biostatistics, bioinformatics, clinical research, medical pediatric research

Dr. Li is a Sr. Director of Biostatistics at Actavis Plc. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree in statistics from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1997. His research interests include missing data, multiplicity adjustment, Trial monitoring, and sampling. Dr. Li has over 15 publications in statistical and medical journals.

Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biostatistics, Protocol, SAS, Clinical Development, Clinical Research, FDA, EDC, Clinical Study, Design, CRO, GCP

Dr. Daikwon Han is an assistant professor at the Texas A&M University at the department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. His research interests include Spatial Epidemiology, GIS & Spatial Analysis Methods, Environmental Health/Exposure Science, Environmental Justice & Health Disparities, Healthcare Access, Population Studies/Spatial Demography

Spatial Epidemiology, GIS & Spatial Analysis Methods, Environmental Health/Exposure Science, Environmental Justice & Health Disparities, Healthcare Access Population Studies/Spatial Demography

Shunpu Zhang is the Professor of statistics at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

Bayes and empirical Bayes method; Nonparametric functional function; Nonparametric deconvolution; Statistical ecology; Bioinformatics (microarray data analysis; Pharmacokinetic (PK) and Pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling; Statistical methods in influenza virus genotypinge.

Yuehua Cui is an associate professor at the Michigan State University, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Florida , M.Stat. in Statistics from University of Florida and M.S. in Plant Biology, China Agricultural University , Beijing, China.

Statistical genetics: Genetic linkage and association study, (e)QTL, and functional QTL mapping of complex traits/diseases Statistical models for genomic imprinting, Large scale genome-wide association study Statistical genomics: Microarray data analysis, RNA-Seq and Chip-Seq data analysis, Clustering, Gene set enrichment analysis, Gene network inference Longitudinal data analysis, Functional data analysis, Mixture model Statistical applications in biological sciences

Altaf H. Khan has completed three master degrees in Biostatistics (2004), Applied Mathematics (1999) and Mechanical Engineering (2003) from the University of Utah. Currently he is working as a Senior Biostatistician at King Abdullah International Medical Research (National Guard Health Affairs), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and prior to that worked at the University of Utah Hospital and Prince Sultan Cardiac Center. He has many publications in international journals and proceedings.

Biostatistics

Ji Zhu obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from Peking University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include statistical learning, high-dimensional data and statistical network analysis. He is also interested in applications in medicine, computational biology, engineering, physics and business. Professor Zhu received a CAREER award from the NSF in 2008 and was elected a member of ISI in 2010 and a fellow of ASA in 2013.

Statistical learning and data mining, High-dimensional data, Statistical network analysis, Statistics in finance and marketing, Statistical modeling in computational biology and health sciences

Joe Massaro is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Mathematics and Statistics. He currently teaches Applied Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials I and II in the Department of Biostatistics. He has won several teaching awards at the School of Public Health for these courses. Joe currently also serves as Managing Director of Biostatistics and Data Management at Harvard Clinical Research Institute, a contract research organization providing statistical and data management services for the device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Overall, he has over 15 years experience in the design and statistical analysis of clinical trials, and has co-authored several clinical trials-related articles. Joe also performs longitudinal statistical analysis for the Framingham Heart Study, assessing risk factors for cardiovascular disease and dementia. In addition, he assists in the oversight of data management at the Framingham Heart Study. He has been with the Department of Biostatistics and the Framingham Heart Study since 1998.

statistical methods in clinical trials, Biostatistics, statistical analysis, data management