Three new outstanding faculty members will join the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Biostatistics in the 2023-24 academic year.
Richard Guo
Richard Guo joins the department as a tenure-track assistant professor whose work focuses on statistical foundations of causal inference, semiparametric methods, and improving the replicability of data analysis. Guo earned his PhD in Statistics in 2021 at the University of Washington and is currently a research associate at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Read more on Guo’s personal page.
Kevin Lin
Kevin Lin joins the department as a tenure-track assistant professor. Lin’s work aims to advance single-cell biology by developing new statistical methods (such as network and dimension-reduction methods) and has previously studied the developing brain to investigate autism spectrum or cancer cells to investigate the mechanisms of therapy resistance. Lin received his PhD from the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University and has recently finished his postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania.
Guanghao Qi
Guanghao Qi joins the department as a tenure-track assistant professor. Qi’s research centers around the development of statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genetic and genomic studies. Specific areas of interest include statistical genetics, Mendelian randomization, and single-cell genomics. Qi earned his PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins in 2020 and is currently wrapping up a postdoc with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
