Tianxi Cai

tcai@hsph.harvard.edu

Biography

Dr. Tianxi Cai is a professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health and a professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. She received her Doctoral degree from Harvard in 1999 and taught at the University of Washington for two years before returning to Harvard as a faculty. Dr. Cai’s current research focuses mainly in the areas of risk prediction and personalized medicine with biomarkers and genomic studies; statistical and machine learning, analysis of EHR data.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Education

Sc.D. Biostatistics, Harvard University, (1996–1999) Boston, MA
B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, (1991–1995) P. R. China

Professional Experience

2018–Present John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Science, Harvard University
2016–Present Professor, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
2012–Present Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
2007–2008 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
2006–2011 Associate Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
2002–2006 Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
2000–2002 Assistant Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of Washington
1999–2000 Research Fellow, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
06–08/1997 Summer Assistant Research Statistician, Schering Plough Research Institute

Honors and Awards

Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer (2014)
Fellow of American Statistical Association (2011)
Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007–2008)
Distinguished Visiting Junior Scholar, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Study (2001)
Student Travel Award, ENAR International Biometrics Society (1999)
Authur T. Lyman and Henry S. Grew Scholarship, Harvard University (1998–1999)
Robert Reed Award for Academic Excellence in Biostatistics, Harvard University (1997)
Pfizer Scholarship (1997–1998)
Genetics Institute Scholarship (1996–1997)

Editorial Board

Guest Editor

Lifetime Data Analysis (Special Issue on Risk Prediction and Evaluation 2013, Joint with Drs. M. Gail and R. Pfeiffer)
Statistics and Its Interface (Special Issue 2010, Joint with Drs. J. Zhu and H. Zhou)

Associate Editor

Journal of the American Statistical Association Theory and Methods (2011–)
Life Time Data Analysis (2010–)
Statistics in Biosciences (2009–)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) (2014–)
Journal of the American Statistical Association Applications and Case Studies (2010–2012)
Biometrics (2008–2012)