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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, Biostatistics

Primary Faculty

Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Professor, 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, Biostatistics

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Yan Gao, PhD

Assistant Professor, 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

Soyoung Kim, PhD

Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the PhD Program, Biostatistics

Purushottam W. Laud, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics

Chien-Wei (Masaki) Lin, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Michael Martens, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Rodney Sparapani, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Aniko Szabo, PhD

Biostatistical Consulting Center Director and Professor

Tao Wang, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics

Kai Yang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Duo Yu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Michael T. Zimmermann, PhD

Director, Computational Structural Genomics Unit, 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

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

Fabrizio Marinelli, PhD

Associate Professor; Recruitment Director, Biophysics Graduate Program

Nick Semenkovich, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor; Founding Member, MCW Data Science Institute

Keith F. Woeltje, MD, PhD

Associate Dean, Professor

Adjunct Faculty

Tongjun Gu, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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