
Appointments and Affiliations
- Faculty Member, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, and Public Health Sciences Division, 2001 - Present
- Faculty Member, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, 2001 - Present
- Director, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, 2013 – 2019
- Ross L. Prentice Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, 2005 - 2006
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 1998 - 2001
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 1997
Education
- University of Washington, PhD, Biostatistics, 1996
- University of Washington, MS, Biostatistics, 1994
- University of Washington, BS, Mathematics, 1992
Honors and Awards
- ASA SPAIG Award for the Fred Hutch/Sanofi Pasteur academic/industry partnership. Citation: "For addressing critical public health concerns on safety and efficacy of a dengue vaccine through development and application of novel statistical methods," 2019
- Highly Cited Researcher list: Web of Science citation record in the top 1% of citations for the "Cross-Field" category (Clarivate Analytics), 2018, 2019.
- Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2014
- MERIT Award (R37) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, for the grant, “Statistical Methods in HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trials,” 2010
- Ross L. Prentice Professorship at the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, 2005-2006
- Senior Biostatistics Student Award, University of Washington, 1996
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine Outstanding Student Scholarship, University of Washington, 1995
- Honorary Donovan J. Thompson Award for outstanding performance as a student in biostatistics, University of Washington, 1994
Research Interests
- Causal inference
- Immune correlates of protection
- Preventive monoclonal antibody clinical trials
- Sieve analysis
- Survival analysis with competing risks
- Targeted learning statistical framework
- Preventive vaccine clinical trials