Student Faculty Collaborate

Data Science Institute

Faculty in the MCW Data Science Institute

Directors

William Hogan, MD, MS

Mary T. and Ted D. Kellner Chair of Data Science; Director, Data Science Institute; Professor, Data Science Institute; Associate Director for Data Science, Mellowes Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine

Brent R. Logan, PhD

Director & Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Primary Faculty

Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Professor, Data Science Institute, Division of Biostatistics and Chief Statistical Director of the CIBMTR

Paul Auer, PhD

Cancer Center Scholar; Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, Cancer Center; Professor, Data Science Institute, Biostatistics

Anjishnu Banerjee, PhD

Associate Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD

Associate Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Xi Fang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Yan Gao, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Victor X. Jin, PhD

Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair of Bioinformatics and Data Analytics; Professor, Data Science Institute/Biostatistics

Wasay Khan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Soyoung Kim, PhD

Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the PhD Program, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Purushottam W. Laud, PhD

Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Chien-Wei (Masaki) Lin, PhD

Associate Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Michael Martens, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Rodney Sparapani, PhD

Associate Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Suhas Sreehari, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Aniko Szabo, PhD

Biostatistical Consulting Center Director and Professor, Data Science Institute, Division of Biostatistics

Di Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Tao Wang, PhD

Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Kai Yang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Duo Yu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Michael T. Zimmermann, PhD

Director, Computational Structural Genomics Unit and Associate Director, Computational Biology, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Professor, Data Science Institute

Secondary Faculty

Toby Charles Cornish, MD, PhD

Professor

Navonil De Sarkar, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology | Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Xiaowu Gai, PhD

Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair in Systems Biology; Professor, Pediatrics; Division Chief, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Child Health; Director, Child Health Bioinformatics; Associate Director, Linda A. and John T. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine

MCW Faculty Collaboration Database Profile

Anai N. Kothari, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery

Iftikhar J. Kullo, MD

Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; Associate Director, Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director of Population Science, Cardiovascular Research

Peter S. LaViolette, PhD, MS

Robert C. Olson, MD, Professorship in Radiology; Director, Quantitative Imaging Laboratory, Medical College of Wisconsin; Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences

Vanessa A. Leone, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biophysics

Fabrizio Marinelli, PhD

Associate Professor; Recruitment Director, Biophysics Graduate Program

Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD

Associate Professor, Biochemistry; Secondary Faculty in Neurosurgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Data Science Institute

Nick Semenkovich, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor; Founding Member, MCW Data Science Institute

Keith F. Woeltje, MD, PhD

Associate Dean, Professor

Adjunct Faculty

Tavinder Ark, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

Tongjun Gu, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Data Science Institute - Division of Biostatistics

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