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 am associated editor of the International Journal of Biostatistics, statistical editor for JAMA Psychiatry and I am currently serving as section editor for the Data Science section at Current Environmental Health Reports.
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 and an R21 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, I am developing causal inference and machine learning approaches to investigate multivariate disease processes that mediate air pollution and metal mixtures effects on cognitive outcomes across the lifespan.
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