DBB Research Areas

The Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics is committed to maintaining a robust research program, both in the development of methodology in bioinformatics and biostatistics and in collaborative engagements with researchers at the University of Louisville and beyond. Our faculty, staff and students conduct methodological research in a diverse set of areas, including Bayesian inference, bioinformatics and statistical genetics, clinical trials, causal inference, functional data analysis, survival analysis and modern statistical computing. 

Through collaborative engagement initiatives, our faculty partner with researchers in numerous areas including public health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, psychology and engineering providing biostatistical expertise in support of scientific development within and outside the University. Our Seminar Series provides weekly seminars covering the cutting-edge research conducted by faculty within and outside the University.

To learn more about the research being conducted by specific faculty members, visit our faculty page or contact us.

Faculty Research Areas

Jeremy Gaskins

Biostatistics, Bayesian methodology, variable selection, longitudinal data, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical collaboration

Bakeerathan Gunaratnam

Clinical trials, longitudinal analysis

Shih-Ting Huang

Deep learning, robust statistics, precision medicine, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, image analysis

Maiying Kong

Experimental design, data analyses, clinical trials, causal inferences, spatiotemporal data analysis.

K.B. Kulasekera

Personalized medicine, nonparametric statistics, smoothing methods, regression techniques

Doug Lorenz

Clinical prediction models, child abuse detection

Michael Sekula

High dimensional data, health equity, longitudinal studies, next-generation sequencing, Bayesian

Shuoyang Wang

Artificial intelligence; causal inference; deep learning; functional/longitudinal data analysis; genomics data; imaging data analysis; non-parametric/semi-parametric model; mediation analysis; high-dimensional model. 

Dongfeng Wu

Probability modeling, Bayesian inference, cancer screening, sensitivity, sojourn time, lead time, overdiagnosis, scheduling, computing, clinical trials.

Qi Zheng

Survival analysis, high dimensional data, statistical learning, causal inference, health policy, study design, power analysis, collaborative research