Dr. Xie is Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University. Her research is motivated by problems related to biomedical studies. Currently, she is focusing on genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genetics genomics data (eQTL) and neuron imaging data. Methodologically and theoretically, Dr. Xie's research area includes large-scale multiple testing, variable selection and high dimensional sparse network estimation.

Dr. Jiaxing Lin joined Core B as a Scientific Programmer at Duke University in February, 2016. Dr. Lin earned a PhD in computational chemistry from Duke University in 2015. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies at Duke, he earned a bachelor of science degree in Chemical Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Lin has extensive experience in scientific programming and computational research.

Select Publications: 1) Benjamin Neelon, S. E., Mayhew, M., O'Neill, J. R., Neelon, B., Li F., and Pate, R. R. (2016). Comparative evaluation of a South Carolina policy to improve nutrition in child care. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, in press. 2) Li, F., Lokhnygina, Y., Murray, D., Heagerty, P., and DeLong, E. R. (2016). An evaluation of constrained randomization for the design and analysis of group-randomized trials. Statistics in Medicine, in press. 3) Neelon, B., Li, F., Burgette, L. F., and Benjamin Neelon, S. E. (2015).

Dr. Gordân is appointed jointly in the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2009 from Duke University, where she worked on DNA motif discovery algorithms. Dr. Gordân is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which transcription factors are recruited to their specific DNA sites, both in vitro and in vivo, and how this recruitment is affected by changes in the DNA or protein sequence.

Dr. Allen is Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Duke University. His research focuses on developing new statistical methods for identifying susceptibility loci involved in complex human disease. It involves a mix of genetics, statistics, and computer science and is motivated by the complexities of real data encountered in collaborative disease-gene mapping projects.

Dr. Wu received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2010. He is Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. His methodological research interests include survival analysis, categorical data analysis, statistical computing and medical informatics. Dr Wu's current methodological work focuses on non/semi-parametric estimation in survival analysis for complicated data structure and time dependent AUC score development with interval censoring.

Dr. Hyslop received her PhD from Temple University in 2001. She is Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Hyslop's current research interests
include: breast, colorectal, and lung neoplasms; cohort studies; models, statistical prognosis; socio-economic factors; and survival analysis.

Dr. Abbruzzese is Chief of the Division of Medical Oncology and Associate Director for Clinical Research for the Duke Cancer Institute and Chair of the National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials and Translational Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Abbruzzese joined Duke in November 2013 from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he was chairman of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Digestive Diseases and is a leading expert in the clinical study and treatment of pancreatic cancer.