SISTAT - Key Persons
Alan Liang, a software developer and system analyst/administrator, has dedicated himself to the computer science field for 25 years. He received his master's degrees from National Taiwan University in 1996 and from the University of Southern California in 2000. During 2000 to 2005 he built up 5 major software product-lines and successfully consulted many customers upgrade from traditional biz services to electronic business and helped increase their profit making capability.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director
Catherine Sugar, Ph.D. is an associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the Director of the Semel Institute Statistics Core (SIStat) in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. Dr. Sugar's methodological expertise is in clustering, classification, and functional data analysis with an emphasis on finding patterns in high-dimensional or longitudinal data. She has also been involved in numerous applied projects in the mental health arena, particularly in schizophrenia and depression. This work has focused on identifying patterns of symptoms or functioning in patient populations and exploring how those patterns evolve over time in response to treatments or other stimuli.
Staff Research Associate
Email:csun@mednet.ucla.edu
Catherine Sun has 13 years of experience in many large web development projects. She is able to provide innovative solutions to maintain high creative standards throughout the project lifecycle: strategy, brief, concept, design, development, testing and documentation. Her knowledge of web design concept and creativity ensures the designs that stand up to heavy traffic and actively fulfill the purpose of the site.
Damla Senturk, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from University of California Davis in 2004. Dr. Senturk's main methodological research areas are regression model building for repeated measures/ longitudinal data, functional data analysis and semiparametric covariate and error adjustments in regression and correlation models with applications to biomedical data. She works on modeling trends in data that are changing over time and explore dynamical regression relations between variables. Some of her applied work include modeling of molecular inflammation markers, infection status and cardiovascular events in the dialysis population, risk factors for hypertension, genomic markers of disease outcome and association of molecular measures in female carriers of the FMR1 (fragile X mental retardation 1) gene.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California
Professor
Email:vli@ucla.edu
Dr. Gang Li is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in statistics from Florida State University in 1992. His research interests include survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, ROC analysis, resampling methods, pharmaceutical statistics, and statistical methods and applications in clinical trials, biomedical imaging, cancer research, and ophthalmology.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Senior Research Scientist
- Emeritus Director
- Professor in UCLA 's Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Jim Mintz, Professor in UCLA's Department of Psychiatry, has been a clinical research methodologist for over 35 years. He received a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1969 at NYU under the mentorship of Jacob ("Jack") Cohen. During the next decade at University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychiatry he established an international reputation as a psychotherapy and substance abuse researcher. Dr. Mintz moved to UCLA in 1979, and for almost two decades headed the Methodology and Statistical Support Unit in the UCLA Center for the Study of Psychosis. Since 2000 he has been Director of the Biostatistics Core at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute (now the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior). Dr. Mintz is also Director of the Data and Statistics Unit of the VISN22 VA Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), the Data Management & Statistics Unit of UCLA's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Department of Neurology), the Data & Statistics Core of UCLA's Center for Neurocognition and Emotion in Schizophrenia (TRCBS), and data/statistical units for several large, multi-site collaborative studies including the nine-site Consortium on Genetics of Endophenotypes in Schizophrenia (COGS), the seven-site international Stanley Foundation Bipolar Research Network, and the eight-site Prevention of Relapse with Long-Acting Psychotics (PRELAAPS) project. He was President of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research in 1985. Dr. Mintz served on two NIMH review committees. He has published more than 265 papers in peer-reviewed journals diverse areas of psychiatry.
Job Titles:
- Professor in Rsdn
- Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Lynn Fairbanks is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Semel Institute Center for Primate Neuroethology. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1974 and joined the research faculty of UCLA in 1975. For the past 30 years she has served as a statistical consultant for the adult division of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed articles with UCLA faculty, residents and trainees. Dr. Fairbanks' expertise is in assisting trainees and young faculty with research design, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation of results.
Gerhard S. Hellemann received his Ph.D. in Psychometrics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. His main research interest is the evaluation of group differences in high dimensional, structured data. Within this context he is researching non-parametric and semi-parametric approaches to clustering and multi-group comparison in structural equation modeling. His main applied interest is the application of statistical methods to longitudinal data, specifically using latent growth curve and mixed model approaches.
Job Titles:
- Programming Group Leader / Web Specialist
Stone Shih is an experienced web developer and designer. Stone gained his B.A. degree in Fine Arts and has 13 years of working experience in graphic design and 11 years in web design and application development. He particularly focuses on web-based Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution for research studies. The primary aims of development are to develop real-time management reporting and analysis applications with an intuitive, workflow-based graphical user interface and to integrate the works of project management, data collection and analysis in one central station.
Job Titles:
- Manager
- Principal
- Research Fellows
Sun Hwang is a principal statistician and received her Master's degree in Biostatistics in 1985 at UCLA and has been working with Dr. Mintz since then. She has 20 years of experience on statistical consulting and data management. She is supervising day to day management in SIStat. She has published about 20 papers in Mental Health research.
Susan Oh received her bachelor's degree in computer science from Ewha Women University in 1992 and master's degree in biostatistics from UCLA in 1995. With her strong data management experience, she devotes herself to developing systems and handling data.
Thomas R. Belin, Ph.D., is a Professor jointly affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He has pursued research interests in handling missing data, particularly in mental health services settings, through two research awards funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Belin earned his doctorate in Statistics from Harvard in 1991.