About the Department
Department of Biostatistics at NYU GPH is engaged in three inter-related activities that aim to improve Public Health through rigorous research and that educate future practitioners, leaders and researchers. We strive for excellence in:
- innovative and groundbreaking methodological research that is relevant to critical Public Health research
- collaborative research in pressing and important Public Health issues;
- education and training of students from diverse backgrounds in cutting edge statistical methods for design and analysis of studies used in Public Health research, as well as theoretical foundations that will serve as the basis for future innovations.
We are experiencing major events in Public Health and Biostatistics has many critical contributions to make. We welcome you to our department and invite you to explore all of our facets in these webpages.
Prominent Links
Departmental Annual Report
You can learn more about our students and faculty our Department Annual Reports accessible here. Our 2024–2025 is now available below!
Our Efforts in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
Our faculty were recently featured in the Amstat News cover story recognizing academic departments for JEDI efforts.
Biostatistics Consultation & Collaboration Core (BC3)
The mission of the Biostatistical Collaboration and Consultation Core (BC3) is: (1) to be a high-quality resource for robust, reliable, and reproducible statistical support; and (2) to educate and train the next generation of collaborative statisticians.
Student Life
Click here to read about and view photos from past student life events.
Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research summer program
The PQAR summer program will host the program in the Summer of 2026! Visit the website to learn more here.
Contact Us
- Email: gph.bsadmin@nyu.edu
- Twitter: @NYUGPHBiostats
- The PQAR summer program will host the PQAR summer program, for current undergraduate students and recent graduates, in the Summer of 2026! We encourage prospective students to visit the webpage for more information here.
- Congratulations to Dr. Hai Shu, Yangbin Chen, Tianze Tang, and Taehyo Kim on a new publication titled “UKAN-EP: enhancing U-KAN with efficient attention and pyramid aggregation for 3D multi-modal MRI brain tumor segmentation.” Yanbing and Tianze are MS alumni who graduated from are program in 2025, and are currently PhD candidates at Penn State University, and Medical University of Vienna respectively. Taehyo Kim is a PhD candidate at GPH.
- Congratulations to Prof. Hai Shu on his new, 4-year RF1 grant from NIH titled "SCH: Novel Multi-View Statistical Machine Learning for Alzheimer's Disease"
- The Department of Biostatistics welcomes Boyu Fan, our new first year PhD student. Say hello and welcome him if you see him around the department. Boyu is coming from UC Berkeley where he studied Data Science, Statistics, and Economics. His areas of interest lie in image segmentation and uncertainty quantification and aims to develop transparent and reliable methods to augment decision-making. Welcome Boyu!
- The Department of Biostatistics celebrates all 2025 graduates of the program. Special congratulations to all graduates who have gone to secure admission to prestigious PhD program.
- We'd like to congratulate Dr. Wen Zhou on two new awards:
- "DMS/NIGMS 2: Novel Statistical Methods, Algorithms, and Pipelines for Learning Omics Data with Complex Heterogeneity." 2025–2029. NIH. PI
- "Collaborative Research: Statistical Modeling and Inference on Directed Network Data for Understanding Faculty Hiring Dynamics." 2025-2028. NSF. PI
- Dr. Yang Feng's project, “Multi-task representation learning for matrix completion with applications to social and behaviour data,” has been selected for funding through the prestigious LSE–NYU Research Seed Fund. This work will develop new multi-task learning methods for matrix completion to improve prediction accuracy, with applications spanning student performance data, healthcare, economics, and other social and behavioral data.
- Dr. Yang Feng, has been appointed as the Reviews Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and The American Statistician (TAS). His three-year term begins in January 2026, during which he will handle all review articles submitted to the journals, including JASA, which is considered the premier journal of statistical science. Congratulations to Dr. Feng!
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Check Out Our Past Seminars & Events
Christopher Park, MPH '19
"Critical and conceptual understanding of data is necessary for public health research. My biostatistics courses have helped me to develop statistical analytic skills that shape the way I think about data management and utilization in a way that’s fit for public health discoveries."
Ejiro Gbaje, MPH '19
"I am fascinated by the power of biostatistics; it uses mathematics to paint pictures of underlying conditions."
Yan Zhang, MPH '19
"The ability to extract health-related patterns from uncertainty is the undeniable beauty of biostatistics."