Dr. Kosorok is W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biostatistics, Member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kosorok is also Director of the Biostatistics Service of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. His expertise is in biostatistical methods for clinical trails and data mining and machine learning tools for high dimensional biomedical data, with a focus on cancer applications.