Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Faculty

Primary Faculty

Raymond R Balise

Raymond R Balise, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

(650) 555-1212
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Raymond Balise, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami (UM). Prior to joining UM, he worked at Stanford University School of Medicine for 17 years as a Biostatistician and Senior Lecturer, as well as serving as the...
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Yuguang Ban

Yuguang Ban

Research Asst. Professor

(208) 305-6332
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Yuguang (James) Ban, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has collaborated with many cancer genomic researchers at Sylvester since he joined the University of Miami in 2015, and...
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Michele Ceccarelli

Michele Ceccarelli

Research Professor

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Dr. Ceccarelli is a Professor of Computational Oncology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. His group made key contributions to the field of cancer systems biology and had a leading role in international cancer big data analysis consortia, including the ATLAS-TCGA and others, both in...
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Xi Steven Chen

Xi Steven Chen

Professor

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Dr. Xi Steven Chen is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He leads the Translational Statistical Bioinformatics Lab, which combines data science and statistics with genomic research to advance our understanding of cancer and other complex conditions. Dr....
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Daniel A Diaz

Daniel A Diaz

Research Asst. Professor

(305) 243-4797
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Daniel Díaz is Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Biostatistics of the University of Miami. He has a PhD in Probability from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; a BS in Statistics (with minors in Mathematics and Biostatistics) at Universidad Nacional, Colombia; a BA in Theology from Facultad de Teología y...
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Daniel J Feaster

Daniel J Feaster, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 243-7881
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Daniel J. Feaster is a tenured Professor of Biostatistics within the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine with over 30 years of experience in design, implementation, and analysis of substance abuse and HIV-related studies. He is or has been the statistician on over 30 federally funded...
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Luciano Garofano

Luciano Garofano

Research Asst. Professor

(305) 243-7496
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Luciano Garofano is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences. He brings his expertise to advance research on Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), an incurable brain tumor. His impactful research centers on pioneering and...
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Yan Guo

Yan Guo

Professor

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Dr. Yan Guo is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and the Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BBSR) at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves as the Chief of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Innovation at the center. Dr. Guo holds a PhD in...
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Hemant Ishwaran

Hemant Ishwaran

Professor

(305) 243-5473
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Hemant Ishwaran, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) and is the Director of Statistical Methodology and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Division of Biostatistics.  Dr. Ishwaran is also affiliated with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC) and the Center for Computational Sciences...
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Limin Jiang

Limin Jiang

Research Asst. Professor

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Limin Jiang, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Her primary focus in the department will be dedicated to research endeavors with research based on multi-omics big data and AI technologies – she is at the forefront of harnessing artificial intelligence to advance cancer recognition,...
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Tulay Koru-Sengul

Tulay Koru-Sengul

Research Professor

(305) 243-2618
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Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul is a Research Professor and the graduate program director of Master of Science (MS) in Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and the lead faculty member overseeing the Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) program in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami Miller School of...
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Min Lu

Min Lu

Research Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-3001
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Min Lu, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She received her Doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the University of Miami in 2018. Her current work is centered around developing and integrating machine learning approaches to...
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Shari Messinger

Shari Messinger, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 243-4465
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Dr. Shari Messinger Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Division of Biostatistics, as well as Director of the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core, in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She has been a member of the Biostatistics Faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 2002, after earning her...
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Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello

Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello

Research Asst. Professor

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Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello is joining the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences as a Research Assistant Professor-Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She has experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ceccarelli Lab within the Sylvester Cancer Center.   Noviello holds a Ph.D. in...
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Yue Pan

Yue Pan

Research Assoc. Professor

(305) 243-9747
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Yue Pan, Ph.D., is an Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami (UM). He has expertise and experience in both clinical biostatistics and social/behavioral statistics including clinical trial designs, randomization, measurement...
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Jie Ping

Jie Ping

Research Asst. Professor

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Dr. Jie Ping is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BBSR) at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. With a strong background in bioinformatics and genetic epidemiology, his research emphasizes the biological mechanisms,...
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Isildinha M Reis

Isildinha M Reis, Ph.D.

Research Professor

(305) 243-5884
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Dr. Isildinha Reis, DrPH, is a Research Professor in the Division of Biostatistics of the Department of Public Health Science (DPHS) and in the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Shared Resource at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Reis is a member of the Sylvester’s Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) and an...
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Lily Wang

Lily Wang

Professor

(615) 397-7789
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Dr. Wang is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) 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 (HIHG). She is also the Co-Director of the HIHG Statistical and Bioinformatics Consulting Core in...
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Fei Ye

Fei Ye

Pending Rank at Professor

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Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH, is a professor of Public Health Sciences, the Executive Director for Clinical Trials and Quantitative Sciences, and the Assistant Director of Statistics for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL. She earned both her MSPH...
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Secondary Faculty

Swarup Swaminathan

Swarup Swaminathan

Associate Professor of Clinical

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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...
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Lan Wang

Lan Wang

Professor
Department Chair, Management Science

(305) 284-9562
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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...
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Emeritus Faculty

Kristopher L Arheart

Kristopher L Arheart, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

(954) 662-6457
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Kristopher L. Arheart, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Arheart is a collaborative biostatistician who provides statistical expertise for medical research in a...
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J. Sunil Rao

J. Sunil Rao

Professor Emeritus

(305) 243-4252
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J. Sunil Rao, Ph.D., is an Emeritus Professor of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Rao has served as the Interim Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences and was previously Professor of Biostatistics at Case Western...
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Voluntary Faculty

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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