About

The mission of the Biostatistics Consulting Center (BCC) is to support study design and data analysis for research in health, medicine, and life-sciences.

We are a cost-recovery service with professional biostatisticians available for collaborating on research projects through grant-funded research or hourly billing.

We serve faculty and graduate students at Indiana University as well as external non-profits and industry.

Meet our team

Our diverse team of professional biostatisticians and data managers are skilled in a range of statistical tools and methods. We are passionate about partnering with research teams to advance knowledge and make the world a better place.

Stephanie Dickinson

Academic Specialist
Executive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center

Phone:: 812-856-9010
Email:: sd3@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-2998-4467

Scholarly Interests

Research design
Clinical Trials
Project management
Grant proposal preparation
Rigor, Reproducibility, Transparency (RRT)
Technical communication

Erin Ables

Research Associate
Data Manager/Analyst II

Phone:: 812-855-1237
Email:: eables@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0001-8617-6768

Scholarly Interests

Clinical Trial Management
Research Methodology
Program Evaluation
Survey Development
Data Management
Dashboards, Tableau
REDCap, SAS programming

Xiwei Chen

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-855-2781
Email:: xiwechen@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-1868-8387

Scholarly Interests

Big data
High-dimensional data analysis
Machine learning (ML)
High-performance computing (HPC)
Genomics
Linear and generalized linear mixed models
Survival analysis
R, SQL, Python, SAS, Mplus

Aaron Cohen

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-856-1417
Email:: cohenaa@iu.edu

Scholarly Interests

Mathematical modelling
Lasso regression, Sparse Group Lasso
R and Python programming
High Performance Computing
Data visualization

Lilian Golzarri Arroyo

Research Associate
Associate Director BCC & Biostatistician II

Phone:: 812-855-3891
Email:: lgolzarr@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-1221-6701

Scholarly Interests

Linear mixed models
Metabolomics
High-dimensional data
Cluster Randomized Trials (cRCT)
Study Design
Grant proposal preparation
R programming

Lijiang Guo

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: (812) 855-9202
Email:: lijguo@iu.edu

Scholarly Interests

Applied linear models
Bayesian methods
Machine learning algorithms
High Performance Computing
Deep learning systems
R and Python programming

Beate Henschel

Research Associate
Biostatistician II

Phone:: 812-855-3994
Email:: bhensche@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-0708-5660

Scholarly Interests

Epidemiology
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Linear Mixed Models
Nutrition, NHANES data
Dyadic Social Network data
SAS programming

Jharna Katara

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-855-0302
Email:: jkatara@iu.edu

Scholarly Interests

Longitudinal Data Analysis
Survival Data Analysis
Clinical Trials
Logistic and Linear Regression
SAS, SPSS, STATA, R programming

Anna Macagno

Research Associate
Data Manager/Analyst I

Phone:: 812-855-9201
Email:: amacagno@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-4133-2098

Scholarly Interests

Research Design
Data management
Project Management
Scientific writing
Linear and generalized linear mixed models
Biology

Bailey Ortyl

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: (812) 856-1428
Email:: bortyl@iu.edu

Scholarly Interests

Linear & logistic regression
Longitudinal data analysis
Data cleaning
Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency
SPSS, SAS, & R

Chelsie Parker

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-856-1419
Email:: chelsiep@iu.edu

Scholarly Interests

Linear and generalized linear mixed models
High Performance Computing
Data visualization
Scientific writing
R programming
Mathematical modelling
Lasso regression

Erik Parker

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-856-0190
Email:: erikpark@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-5537-7900

Scholarly Interests

Linear and generalized linear mixed models
R programming
High-throughput sequencing data
Genomics
Microbiome
Bioinformatics
Data visualization

Consulting Associates

Our part-time, professional staff:

Sumayyah Ali, B.A.

B.A. in Biology from Rollins College, B.A. in Computational Linguistics from Universität Tübingen
Skills and interests:Machine learning, natural language processing, data processing and organization, technical writing and editing, python, and R programming

Xingsheng Li, Ph.D. MSPH

Ph.D. in Physiology, MSPH in Biostatistics from University of Alabama Birmingham
Skills and interests: Clinical research, metabolism, generalized linear mixed models, survival, meta-analysis, categorical, survey data. SAS, Stata, SPSS, R.

Jocelyn Mineo, M.S.

M.S. in Biostatistics from University of Pittsburgh
Skills and interests: Research coordination, project management, biostatistics, R programming, data visualization, scientific writing.

Hyeseon Seo, M.S.

M.S. in Statistical Science from Indiana University
Skills and interests: Hypothesis testing, regression modeling( linear & mixed effects) and non-parametric methods. Proficient in R.

Nicolas Escobar Velasquez, M.S.

M.S. in Mathematics from Indiana University
Skills and interests: Multivariate statistics, fMRI Imaging, advanced R programming and Bayesian methods.

Kurt White, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Indiana University
Skills and interests: Population differences in disease prevalence, health promotion, data management and analysis, and applied biostatistics.

Graduate students

Pranav Kapoor, PhD Epidemiology student
Ashley Judge, PhD Epidemiology student
Maria Klein, PhD Epidemiology student
Nicolas Escobar Velasquez, PhD Statistics student

Administration and Research Assistants

Sara Tidd, Program Management Specialist
Tim Jeter, Program Manger
Shelby Rodney, Administration and Research Staff

Faculty

Faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offer specialized expertise in a wide variety of research methods and contexts. Consider collaborating with an Epi-Bio faculty as a Co-Investigator on your next grant along with BCC staff to support. Browse the profiles in the faculty directory to identify a collaborator for your next project.

The BCC is housed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health – Bloomington at Indiana University.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is part of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) program in the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) . The BCC is a service core providing professional service to facilitate research in translational sciences.

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