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Machine Learning

Machine learning focuses on the creation, characterization and development of algorithms that, when applied to data, allow us to understand their structure, make predictions and construct counterfactual analyses. This area of research is fundamental to applied statistics and data science and drives many of their recent advancements, including in artificial intelligence and large language models. Our faculty actively research methodological and computational approaches to machine learning, especially in high-dimensional data and data-intensive computing, to create new tools for scientific discovery. Through collaboration with researchers across campus, YSPH researchers apply these tools to genetics, clinical trials, neuroimaging and other areas of biomedicine.

Faculty of Interest

  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Social Networking
    • Observational Study
    • HIV
    • Health Plan Implementation
    • Global Health
    • Clinical Trial
    • Causality
    • Behavioral Sciences
    • Biostatistics
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Statistics
    • Neurosciences
    • Machine Learning
    • Immune System Diseases
    • Gene Regulatory Networks
    • Genetics
    • Epigenomics
    • Computational Biology
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

    Research Interests
    • Survival Analysis
    • Selection Bias
    • Propensity Score
    • Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Research Design
    • Mediation Analysis
    • Multilevel Analysis
    • Pragmatic Clinical Trial
    • Observational Study
    • Longitudinal Studies
    • Machine Learning
    • Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Causality
    • Comparative Effectiveness Research
    • Epidemiologic Methods
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Co-Training Director, Health Informatics MS

    Research Interests
    • Computer Simulation
    • Computational Biology
    • Biostatistics
    • Informatics
    • Neurosciences
  • Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Co-Leader, Genomics, Genetics, & Epigenetics Research Program

    Research Interests
    • Evolution, Molecular
    • Genetic Engineering
    • Genetic Phenomena
    • Fungi
    • Gene Expression Profiling
    • Gene Transfer Techniques
    • Genetic Speciation
    • Beer
    • Biological Evolution
    • Algorithms
    • Bacteria
    • Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
    • Coccidioidomycosis
    • Bread
    • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
    • Computing Methodologies
    • Crops, Agricultural
    • Public Health Informatics
    • Sequence Analysis, DNA
    • Sequence Analysis, Protein
    • Polymerase Chain Reaction
    • Phenomena and Processes
    • Phylogeny
    • Organisms
    • Nonlinear Dynamics
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Neoplasms
    • Mycoses
    • Nature
    • Neoplasm Metastasis
    • Models, Theoretical
    • Molecular Epidemiology
    • Models, Genetic
    • Models, Statistical
    • Microarray Analysis
    • Microbiological Phenomena
    • Logistic Models
    • Likelihood Functions
    • Mathematical Concepts
    • Wine
    • Viruses
  • Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Computational Biology
    • Data Science
    • Biostatistics
    • Electronic Health Records
    • Genetics
    • Genomics
    • Public Health
    • Psychiatry
    • Informatics
    • Machine Learning
    • Mental Health
    • Longitudinal Studies
    • Multiomics
    • Neurosciences
    • Single-Cell Analysis
  • Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Biostatistics
    • Algorithms
    • Disorders of Environmental Origin
    • Eye Diseases
    • Pregnancy Complications
    • Probability
    • Statistics as Topic
    • Stochastic Processes
    • Statistical Distributions
    • Virus Diseases
  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Director of Data Analysis and Bioinformatics Hub, The Center for Precision Pulmonary Medicine (P2MED); Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • Genomics
    • Biostatistics
    • Computational Biology
    • Respiratory Hypersensitivity
    • Molecular Biology
    • Molecular Medicine
    • Lung Diseases
  • Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Computational Biology
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Biostatistics
    • Genomics
    • Epidemiology
    • Psychiatry
    • Pregnancy
    • Infertility
    • Mental Health
    • Statistics
  • Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Genetics and Professor of Statistics and Data Science

    Research Interests
    • Computational Biology
    • Biostatistics
    • Genomics
    • Genetics
    • Microbiota
    • Public Health
    • Proteomics
    • Single-Cell Analysis
    • Statistics
    • Wearable Electronic Devices
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

    Research Interests
    • Psychiatry
    • Neuroimaging
    • Neurodegenerative Diseases
    • Mental Health
    • Biomedical Research
    • Biostatistics
    • Aging
    • Electronic Health Records
    • Genetics
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Precision Medicine
    • Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Research Design
    • Implementation Science
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Biostatistics
    • Dimensional Measurement Accuracy
    • Clinical Trial