I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics , Duke University. Before joining Duke, I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison from 2018 to 2020, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison from 2016 to 2018.

Research Interests

  • Statistical Methods for Microbiome Research
  • Integration of Omic Data
  • Spatial Omics
  • High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Education

PhD in Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Advisor: Hongzhe Li

MS in Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
Advisors: Dylan Small and Nandita Mitra

MS in Statistics, Rutgers University, 2012
Advisor: Min-ge Xie

BS in Statistics, Peking University, 2010
Advisors: Xiangzhong Fang and Jiading Chen

Contact Information

Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University
E-mail: pixu dot shi at duke dot edu