About Me

I am Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I joined Columbia Mailman School of Public Health in 2018 after 3 years as faculty at the Laboratory of Psychiatric Biostatistics of McLean Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. My research interests are at the intersection of causal inference, biostatistics, epidemiology, and machine learning. I am fond of collaborating with researchers and practitioners in the biomedical and social sciences and of translating statistical methods in Public Health to improve our understanding of mental health, environmental determinants of health, and health disparities.

My research is published in internationally recognized statistics and epidemiology journals and I teach courses on causal inference and causal mediation analysis by national and international institutions.

I received an NIH Career Development Award to develop causal inference methodology for mobile health studies in Psychiatry.

Funded by an R01 award from the National Institute of Aging, I am developing causal inference and machine learning approaches to investigate multivariate disease processes that mediate air pollution and metal mixtures effects on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

 

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics                

Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH), Columbia University, New York, NY

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology               

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Education & Training

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,

Post-doctoral fellowship in Biostatistics (2013-2015)                                                                   

Advisors: Brent Coull and Xihong Lin                                              

Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Cambridge,

Ph.D in Biostatistics (2013)                                                                   

Thesis: Statistical Methods for Causal Mediation Analysis

Advisor: Tyler J. VanderWeele                                              

Bocconi University, Milan, Italy                                                  

M.Sc. (cum laude) in Economics and Social Sciences (2008)

Advisor: Marco Bonetti                                            

Bocconi University, Milan, Italy                                                    

B.A. (cum laude) in Economics and Social Sciences (2006)

Advisor: Marco Bonetti                                             

Here is my CV and Google Scholar