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Current Officers


Shuangge Ma

President

Dr. Shuangge Ma is a Professor and the interim Department Chair in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health and an affiliated faculty member at Yale Institute for Global Health.

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Kun Chen

President-Elect

Dr. Kun Chen is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Shan Xiao

Secretary

Dr. Shan Xiao is Associate Director, Statistics at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

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Shariq Mohammed

Vice President for Conferences

Dr. Shariq Mohammed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health.

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Dooti Roy

Co-Vice President for Strategies & Development

Dooti Roy, Ph.D., is a people leader, a global capability area owner and a senior principal methodology statistician at Boehringer Ingelheim and an adjunct faculty at UConn.

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Gregory Vaughan

Co-Vice President for Strategies & Development

Gregory Vaughan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Bentley University.

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Colin Wu

Vice President for Journal & Publication

Dr. Wu is senior Mathematical Statistician at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NHLBI/NIH) and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, The George Washington University and University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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To be Elected

Deputy Secretary

This position is to be elected.

To be Elected

Vice President for Education

This position is to be elected.

Zhan (Harold) Ye

Vice President for NextGen

Dr. Zhan (Harold) Ye is currently the associate director of non-clinical biostatistician at Pfizer Inc.

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Vickie (Yuanye) Zhang

Treasurer

Vickie (Yuanye) Zhang is currently Senior Director of Biostatistics at Servier, leading the Late Phase Oncology Hematology Statistics group.

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Ying Zhou

Deputy Treasurer

Ying Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Past Officers


Abidemi K. Adeniji

Past Vice President for NextGen
(2019 – 2022)

Dr. Adeniji is a statistical science consultant at M-Estimator LLC, Boston .

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Rebecca A. Betensky

Past President
(2024 – 2026)

Dr. Rebecca Betensky is Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the New York University School of Global Public Health.

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Joseph C. Cappelleri

President (2020-2022)

Dr. Cappelleri joined Pfizer Inc in June 1996 as a statistical scientist collaborating with Outcomes Research, and currently he is an executive director of biostatistics at Pfizer.

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Kun Chen

Past Secretary

Dr. Kun Chen is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Ming-Hui Chen

President
(2018 – 2020)

Dr. Ming-Hui Chen is Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Jessi Cisewski

Vice President for NextGen
(2017 – 2019)

Dr. Cisewski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University.

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Yuwen Gu

Past Secretary
(2024 – 2026)

Dr. Yuwen Gu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Jianan Hui

Past Secretary

Dr. Jianan Hui is a Sr. Principal Biostatistician in Global Biostatistics at Servier Pharmaceuticals.

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Eric D. Kolaczyk

Past President
(2022 – 2024)

Dr. Eric Kolaczyk is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.

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Lynn Kuo

Treasurer
(2017 – 2022)

Dr. Kuo is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Nathan Lally

Past Vice President for Education
(2020 – 2022)

Nathan Lally is a Senior Data Scientist at Hartford Steam Boiler (Munich Re Group).

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James MacDougall

Vice President for Strategies & Development
(2017 – 2022)

Dr. MacDougall is currently a statistical consultant for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies.

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Xiao-Li Meng

President
(2017 – 2018)

Dr. Xiao-Li Meng is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.

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Nalini Ravishanker

Vice President for Education
(2017 – 2020)

Dr. Ravishanker is a Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Nicholas G. Reich

Vice President for Scientific Program
(2017 – 2018)

Dr. Reich is an Associate Professor in School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Naitee Ting

Past Vice President for Strategies & Development
(2022 – 2024)

Dr. Ting is currently a Director in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Sciences at Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BI).

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Xiaojing Wang

Past Treasurer

Dr. Xiaojing Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.

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Min-ge Xie

Vice President for Journal & Publication
(2017 – 2020)

Dr. Min-ge Xie is a Distinguished Professor and Director of Rutgers Office of Statistical Consulting in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers University.

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Alex Young

Past Vice President for Education
(2023 – 2024)

Alex Young is an Undergraduate Advisor and Lecturer in the Harvard University Statistics Department.

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Wei Zhong

Past Vice President for NextGen (2022 – 2024)

Wei Zhong is currently Director of Biostatistics at Pfizer Inc with over 10 years industry experience on drug development.

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