Tianxi Cai

tcai@hsph.harvard.edu

Biography

Tianxi Cai is a major player in developing analytical tools for EHR phenotyping and predictive modeling with biomedical data. She provides statistical leadership on several large-scale projects, including the NIH-funded BD2K PIC-SURE Center of Excellence and N-GRID Center for Excellence in Genomic Science to study neuropsychiatric disease at DBMI. In addition to her collaborative work, Cai’s research lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health develops novel statistical methods for personalized medicine using genomic and phenomic data.

Education

  • Sc.D. in Biostatistics (1999), Harvard University, Boston, MA
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics (1995), University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience

  • 2018–Present John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Science, Harvard University
  • 2016–Present Professor, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
  • 2012–Present Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 2007–2008 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
  • 2006–2011 Associate Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 2002–2006 Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 2000–2002 Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of Washington
  • 1999–2000 Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 06–08.1997 Summer Assistant Research Statistician, Schering Plough Research Institute

Honors and Awards

  • Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer (2014)
  • Fellow of American Statistical Association (2011)
  • Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007–2008)
  • Distinguished Visiting Junior Scholar, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Study (2001)
  • Student Travel Award, ENAR International Biometrics Society (1999)
  • Authur T. Lyman and Henry S. Grew Scholarship, Harvard University (1998–1999)
  • Robert Reed Award for Academic Excellence in Biostatistics, Harvard University (1997)
  • Pfizer Scholarship (1997–1998)
  • Genetics Institute Scholarship (1996–1997)

Editorial Board

Guest Editor

  • Lifetime Data Analysis (Special Issue on Risk Prediction and Evaluation 2013, Joint with Drs. M. Gail and R. Pfeiffer)
  • Statistics and Its Interface (Special Issue 2010, Joint with Drs. J. Zhu and H. Zhou)

Associate Editor

  • Journal of the American Statistical Association Theory and Methods (2011–Present)
  • Life Time Data Analysis (2010–Present)
  • Statistics in Biosciences (2009–Present)
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) (2014–Present)
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association Applications and Case Studies (2010–2012)
  • Biometrics (2008–2012)