Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Herbert Pang

Herbert Pang
Assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University School of Medicine, USA

Biography

Dr. Pang received his PhD in Biostatistics from Yale University in 2008. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. He has served on cancer protocol committee at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, thesis committee for Clinical Research Training Program at Duke University Medical Center, and program committee for the Third International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, and as a reviewer for nine statistics/biomedical journals. He has authored nine research articles/books. He is a member of American Association for Cancer Research, American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, International Society for Computational Biology, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Research Interest

Dr. Pang’s primary research interest in recent years has focused on classification methods and genomics. His expertise is on high dimensional data analysis and machine learning, including the design and analysis of biomarker and medical imaging clinical trials, high-throughput data analysis, pathway analysis for genomics data, shrinkage-based discriminate analysis, and software development. At Duke, he collaborates with researchers at the Clinical Anesthesia research division at Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Duke Center for Human Genetics.