James Long
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
email: jplong + the at symbol + mdanderson.org
office: 1MC12.3486
Background and Research Interests

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Before joining MD Anderson, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University. I received my PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013.

I am interested in causal inference and machine learning with applications to in silico perturbation modeling, electronic health record data, and biomarkers for disease diagnosis and cancer early detection. I collaborate with many clinicians and basic scientists at MD Anderson on projects in omics data analysis, clinical trial design, and biomarker development. If you are a GSBS, UT Health, or Rice student interested in my research, please contact me.
Publications

See my google scholar profile for a list of publications. Code is available on github under longjp.

Selected Talks
  • Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding: Instrumental Variables and the Causal Dantzig. WNAR. June 10, 2024
  • Causal Discovery and Prediction with Interventional Data: Application to Cell Perturbation Experiments. UT Health Houston, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar. May 8, 2024.
  • Prognostic Models in Oncology: From Feature Selection to Web Apps. University of Texas San Antonio Department of Population Health Seminar. December 4, 2023.
  • Causal Mediation Analysis with Non-linear Models, Multiple Mediators, and DAGs. Southern Methodist University Statistics Seminar. November 13, 2020.
  • Parameter Estimation for Approximate Regression Models with Heterskedastic Error. MD Anderson Biostatistics Department Seminar. September 12, 2018.
  • Mapping the Milky Way Halo with RR Lyrae Stars. American Academy for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. February 16, 2018.

    Teaching
  • STAT 533 / GSBS 1283 - Foundations of Statistical Inference II: Spring 2020
  • Biostatistics 6082 - Survival Analysis: Spring 2019
  • Statistics 689 - Statistical Computing with R and Python: Spring 2018
  • Statistics 611 - Theory of Statistics II: Spring 2018
  • Astrostatistics: Astrostatistics course taught Fall 2016 at SAMSI.
  • Statistics 689 - Astrostatistics: Astrostatistics course taught Fall 2015 at TAMU.


    Last updated: September 25, 2024