I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and an Assistant Director of the Duke Microbiome Center at 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

My research focuses on developing statistical methods for the following areas and and providing statistical support for biomedical researchers.

  • Microbiome Research
  • Longitudinal/Temporal Omic Data
  • Integration of Omic Data
  • Spatial Omics
  • High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Current Research Team

Former Trainees

  • Qiuyi Wu (jointly with Anru Zhang), postdoctoral research fellow. Now Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Temple University.
  • Samsul Alam, summer intern (2023). Now postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University.
  • Peng Wu, summer intern (2022). Now PhD student, Department of Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Lou Lindsley, summer intern (2026). Now PhD student, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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