Tianxi Cai
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences
Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Biostatistics
Other Positions
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Biography
Dr. Cai’s current research interests are mainly in the area of biomarker evaluation; model selection and validation; prediction methods; personalized medicine in disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment; statistical inference with high dimensional data; and survival analysis.
In addition to her methdological research, Dr. Cai also collaborates with the I2B2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) center on developing a scalable informatics framework that will bridge clinical research data and the vast data banks arising from basic science research in order to better understand the genetic bases of complex diseases.
Education and Training
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Sc.D.,
Harvard University
