Brief Faculty Profiles
Raymond J. Carroll, Ph.D. Top of Page
Raymond J. Carroll is the principal investigator of the training grant, Professor of Statistics, Nutrition and Toxicology, Director of the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. His main interests involving modeling complex nutrition and genomics data arising from the laboratories of the nutrition mentors in the training grant. |
Robert Chapkin, Ph.D. Top of Page
Dr. Chapkin, Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor & University Faculty Fellow. He is an NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator and Associate Director of the Center for Translation Environmental Health Research (CTEHR) – http://cerhgenomics.tamu.edu/. He is an expert in dietary/microbial modulators related to prevention of colon cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. He has made highly significant contributions in signal transduction processes in intestinal stem cells and membrane biology and nutritional modulation of organ membrane structure and function. |
Valen Johnson, Ph.D Top of Page
Valen Johnson is a professor and Department Head in the Department of Statistics. His applied research interests include educational assessment, ordinal data analysis, clinical trial design, image analysis and reliability analysis. His current methodological interests focus on Bayesian hypothesis testing and its connections to classical testing procedures. Bayesian variable selection, Markov chain Monte Carlo model diagnostics and latent variable modeling. |
Bani Mallick, Ph.D. Top of Page
Dr. Mallick Distinguished Professor of Statistics, is well-known for his work on Bayesian statistical methodology, especially Bayesian non-parametric methods for clustering, new-works, prediction and expression data.
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Jianhua Huang Top of Page
Jianhua Huang is a profession in the department of statistics and a graduate Advisor for the department. His interests include nonparametric and semiparametric models, statistical function estimation using polynomial splines, statistical methods for longitudinal data/panel data, multivariate/functional data analysis, survival analysis, duration data, event history analysis, statistics application on business. |
Steven Safe Top of Page
Steven Safe is a distinguished professor in the Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. His interests are toxicology and molecular biology of estrogenic and antiestrogenic compounds, molecular mechanisms of estrogen receptor and Ah receptor action and their corsstalk in breast cancer |
Edward Dougherty, Ph.D. Top of Page
Dr. Dougherty is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory. He is well-known for bringing engineering approaches into genomic, including the analysis of networks and systems biology more generally.
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Ulisses Braga Neto Top of Page
Ulisses Braga Neto is an Associate Professor in the department of electrical & computer engineering. His research interests are optimal state and parameter estimation for boolean dynamical systems, discrete prediction and inference of regulatory networks, small-sample classification and error estimation, application sin cancer proteomic biomarker discovery and validation and applications in modeling infectious disease processes. |
Guoyao Wu Top of Page
Dr. Wu is a Professor of Animal Science, and an expert on glutamine and arganine metabolism and how these molecules are involved in intestinal development of neonates, and in nitric oxide synthesis by mammalian cells. He also studies metabolic changes occurring in colonic epithelial cells. |
Clint Allred, Ph.D. Top of Page
Clint Allred, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Allred received his B.S. in Animal Science from the University of Georgia in 1997. He completed his Ph.D. in nutrition at the University of Illinois in 2002. He then served as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of pharmacology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine until August of 2006. |
Irina Gaynanova, Ph.D. Top of Page
Irina Gaynanova, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics. She is the recipient of the 2018 David P. Byar Young Investigator award . Her interests are on High-dimensional data analysis, machine learning, multivariate analysis, computational statistics, and statistical methods for analyzing biological data. |
Weston Porter Top of Page
Weston Porter is a professor-joint appointment with Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. His interests is determining the role of factors in normal development and how disruption of these pathways results in associated pathologies. |
Anirban Bhattacharya Top of Page
Anirban Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics. His research interests focus on latent variable models for multivariate categorical and count data, bayesian variable selection in linear and non linear models, probabillstic models for analysis of network data, trade-off between computational and theoretical complexity in Gaussian process regression models. |
Arul Jayaraman Top of Page
Arul Jayaraman is the Ray B. Nesbitt Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering. His research interests focus on molecular systems biotechnology, specifically on using integrated experimental and modeling approaches for investigating problems in human health and medicine. |
Tanya Garcia Top of Page
Tanya Garcia is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Statistics. Her research interests are Semiparametric theory, measurement error, survival analysis, model selection and bioinformatics |