Prof. Nilanjan Chatterjee

Dr. Chatterjee is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Oncology School of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he led the Biostatistics Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics of the US National Cancer Institute during 2008-2015. He is known for foundational and methodological contributions to multiple areas of modern biomedical data science, including large-scale analysis of genetic associations, gene-environment interactions, and predictive model building by synthesis of information from various data sources. He has received numerous prestigious national and international awards, including the celebrated Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) President’s Award. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Epidemiological Society. He serves on the scientific advisory committee of the Radiation Effect Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan and the Population and Prevention Research Committee of the foundation of Cancer Research UK.