Research Interests

Word cloud generated on October 7, 2025, pulling MESH terms from the department's Flight Tracker publications database (e.g., humans, female, male, middle-aged, retrospective studies, prospective studies, risk factors, etc.)
This word cloud depicts popular MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms in the department's Flight Tracker publications database as of October 7, 2025.

Compilation in progress. Topics will be linked to detailed pages as they are developed. 

This list is NOT comprehensive - our collaborations and research directions are ever-evolving. We typically publish more than six hundred peer-reviewed papers per year, with student-authored manuscripts among them. See the Graduate and Teaching Faculty directory for links to individual profiles.

anesthesiology: Eden, Shotwell

Bayesian statistics: Q. Chen, Choi, Hackstadt, Harrell, Kang, Samuels, Shotwell, Shyr, Slaughter

biobanks: Sheng, S. Zhao

bioinformatics: Asiaee, Q. Chen, Choi, Q. Liu, Sheng, Shepherd, Shyr, S. Zhao

cancer: Asiaee, Dupont, Koyama, Q. Liu, Sheng, Shyr, Spieker, S. Zhao

cardiovascular disease: Q. Chen, Eden, French, Greevy, Harrell, D. Liu, Schildcrout, Slaughter, Spieker, 

causal inference: Asiaee, Blette, Dupont, Eden, Greevy, Hackstadt, J. Liu, Samuels, Schildcrout, Shepherd, Spieker, Xiang, Zhang

child welfare: Raman

clinical trials: Blette, Choi, Dupont, French, Harrell, Koyama, D. Liu, Raman, Samuels, Schildcrout, Shotwell, Shyr, Xiang

  • adaptive: Choi, Koyama
  • randomized: Blette, French, Schildcrout, Shyr 

cloud computing: Sheng, S. Zhao

computational biology: Asiaee, Ma, Shotwell

critical care / emergency medicine: Blette, Harrell, D. Liu, Raman

data coordination: Blette, D. Liu

data linkage: Raman

diabetes: Greevy, Hackstadt, Kang, Schildcrout, S. Zhao

digestive/gastrointestinal disease / gastroenterology: Koyama, Q. Liu, Shyr, Slaughter

electronic health records: Q. Chen, Choi, D. Liu, Greevy, Tao

environmental health: Hackstadt

epidemiology (including molecular, radiation, and other specialties): Dupont, French, Greevy, Ma, Raman, Schildcrout, Shepherd, Shyr, Slaughter

ethics: Davidson, Samuels

genetics and genomics: Asiaee, Dupont, Ma, Sheng, Shyr, Tao, Xiang

global health: Amorim, Shepherd

health policy: Dupont, Raman, Shyr, Spiker

health services and outcomes research: Davidson, Dupont, Greevy, Hackstadt, Harrell, Raman, Samuels, Schildcrout

high-dimensional data: J. Liu, Shyr, Vandekar, S. Zhao

imaging: Kang, Ma, Vandekar, Zhang

infectious disease: Amorim, Blette, Q. Chen, Dupont, Koyama, Q. Liu, Raman, Shepherd, Spieker, Xiang

large language models: Ma

likelihood methods: Choi, Dupont, Kang, Tao

longitudinal analysis: Q. Chen, Choi, Dupont, French, Harrell, Kang, D. Liu, J. Liu, Schildcrout, Slaughter, Spieker, Zhang

machine learning: Asiaee, Shotwell, Vandekar, Xiang, Zhang

measurement/observational error: Amorim, Shepherd, Tao

medical education and assessment: Davidson

mental health: J. Liu, Vandekar

microbiome: Ma

missing data: Amorim, Q. Chen, Dupont, Harrell, J. Liu, Shepherd, Tao, Zhang

network analysis: Zhang

neurology (including neurogenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and psychiatric disorders): Dupont, Kang, D. Liu, J. Liu, Spieker, Vandekar, Xiang, Zhang

observational study design: Greevy, Samuels, Schildcrout, Spieker 

omics: Q. Liu, Sheng, Shyr, S. Zhao. See also genomics

ophthalmology: Q. Chen

ordinal response models / correlation measures: Eden, Harrell, Shepherd, Slaughter

pain research: Xiang

pediatrics: Q. Chen, DupontFrench, Samuels, Slaughter, Spieker, S. Zhao. See also child welfare

pharmacology / pharmaceutical science / pharmacokinetic modeling / etc.: Choi, Greevy, Harrell, Schildcrout, Shotwell

predictive modeling: Harrell, Koyama, Schildcrout, Shyr

psychometrics: J. Liu, Vandekar

R: Amorim, Hackstadt, Harrell, Shotwell

real-world data: French. See also electronic health records

replicability: Vandekar

respiratory / pulmonary disease: Q. Chen, Dupont, Koyama, Ma, Schildcrout, Shotwell, Shyr, Tao

risk prediction: French, D. Liu

sampling design / power and sample size calculations: Amorim, Dupont, Koyama, Q. Kiu, Schildcrout, Shepherd, Shotwell, Vandekar

semiparametric modeling: J. Liu, Spieker, Vandekar

spatio-temporal modeling: Kang

statistical graphics / data visualization: Dupont, Harrell, Koyama, Samuels, Schildcourt

statistics education: Amorim, Davidson, Dupont, Shyr, Slaughter, Spieker

survival analysis: Q. Chen, Dupont, Eden, Harrell, Q. Liu, Shyr, Xiang

synthetic data: Shepherd

urology: Koyama