STAtistics for Renal Allograft and PaThology Outcomes Research (STARAPTOR) Lab

Jeremy Rubin, PhD 

Assistant Clinical Professor of Biostatistics

University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health

Email: jrub@umd.edu   

Welcome! 

I am a Assistant Clinical Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health. I have been in this role since August 2025, but prior to this role, I received my PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania. My current faculty role is a teaching-track position, but I also run the STAtistics for Renal Allograft and PaThology Outcomes Research (STARAPTOR) Lab, in which me and my trainees focus on developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods for predicting kidney function outcomes, especially for renal transplant recipients and using renal histopathology data.

My trainees span diverse backgrounds such as molecular pharmaceutics and mathematical statistics, and are scattered mainly across the US (with one international trainee currently in Sweden!). I am particularly passionate about statistical methodology including high-dimensional regression (especially lasso-based approaches), machine learning including random forests, XGBoost, and ensemble learning, as well as generally variable or feature selection approaches.

Please feel free to reach me at jrub@umd.edu if you are interested in getting involved with research in the STARAPTOR Lab! 

Wait...you don't do math for fun?!?

So like actually you do something besides math?

Like actually. 

I love seeking out wonderful coffee and food, playing badminton, watching and performing stand-up comedy as well as making puns. In addition to formerly being a member of the competitive Penn badminton team, I hold the following badminton tournament accolades (as well as placed in one pun competition):

• University of Maryland Internal Tournament Doubles Consolation Winner | November 2025

• It's Always Punny in Philadelphia #5: Pundemonium Finalist | February 2024

• Snowpeak DC Open MD D Consolation Champion | March 2025

• PhillyPinoy Badminton Team Tournament Division 2 (Intermediate Division) 1st Place | October 2024

• Club28 Badminton Philadelphia Yonex Cup Division E Doubles 2nd Place | March 2021 

Here is some photographic evidence of me in some non-academic habitats. Please note like any academic who may be subject to having out-of-date pictures, I try to have the below pictures be me from not too along ago, but the below pictures or any pictures that you can find on my website may be somewhat or very outdated by the time of reading this.

STARAPTOR Lab News!

2026

• 2/20/26: Jeremy's second dissertation paper was accepted for publication in the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining! Congrats....myself....

• 2/18/26: First STARAPTOR Lab meeting in which mutiple Maryland Starlings presented to STARAPTOR Lab collaborator Anindya!  

• 2/16/16: Starling Connie received the Digital and Computational Pathology Honorable Mention (Runner-up) Poster Award for her work with Jeremy and Starlings Lylybell and Huiqian! Connie kept a four-year award streak alive maintained by STARAPTOR Lab collaborators previously maintained by the collaborators' graduate students! Congratulations, Connie!  

• 2/13/26: First STARAPTOR Lab dinner with Sichuan food! 

• 2/12/26: Aneesh Krishna Rao Chepuri and Alec Zhang join the STARAPTOR Lab respectively as the 4th UMD undergraduate student in computer science and first UMD master's student in data science, respectively. Aneesh will be the first Starling in the lab to focus on FDR control while Alec will be the first Starling to work on scalar-on-tensor regression! Welcome, Aneesh and Alec! 

• 2/3/26: Starling Hedwig had her abstract "Bayesian Classification of Binary Outcomes from Unbalanced Matrix-Valued Predictors with Unsupervised Clustering" accepted for an oral talk to the Scandinavian Actuarial Conference in Stockholm in June! Congratulations, Hedwig! 

• 1/30/26: Jeremy made his first GitHub repo (https://github.com/jeremysrubin/procurement-biopsy-pathomics-ml) for code related to the theme of the STARAPTOR Lab! It took him way too long to clean up his messy code, and the computer science undergrad Starlings he is sure could do a way better job than Jeremy can, but you know he's old and has stuff to teach and is a biostatistician, not a computer scientist... Jeremy, inspiring himself with his own repo, starts a software page on the lab website! 

• 1/29/26: Janelle Vo joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the first UMD undergraduate student in Public Health Science to be a a part of the lab! She will be using visualization and hypothesis testing identify differences in image features across different sites for renal histopathology data. Welcome, Janelle! 

• 1/15/26: Starling Huiqian just received a travel award for his abstract titled "Integrating Tubule-Level Procurement Biopsy Pathomics and Clinical Factors for Machine Learning Prediction of Delayed Graft Function" to present a poster at the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) consortium in Bethesda, MD! The first travel award for any Starling in the lab! We are so proud of you, Huiqian! 

• 1/12/26: Jeremy has confirmed high-performance computing access on the Zaratan UMD cluster and figured out the IT shenanigans of adding lab members, yippee! It's the small things that count...and first lab news update of 2026! 

2025

• 12/30/25: Starling Chris Wu competed in both mixed doubles and men's doubles at the 2025 Yonex U.S. Adult National Championships, and received an incredible 4th place in mixed doubles! Congratulations Chris for such amazing work on- and off-court! 

• 12/20/25: Raymond Chen joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the fourth UMD undergraduate and will work in parallel to Advay to explore similar uncharted territory - testing different domain adaptation methods to better predict kidney function outcomes using multisite renal histopathology image features. Welcome, Raymond! 

• 12/12/25: Advay Monga joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the third UMD undergraduate and will explore maybe the most uncharted territory for the STARAPTOR Lab, exploring whether data harmonization can improve the prediction of kidney function outcomes using machine learning models developed on multisite data of renal histopathology image features. Welcome, Advay!

• 12/5/25: Jeremy checked the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) website and he appears to be a recognized affiliate! Guess his application was successful even though he never got a formal notification.....

• 12/4/25: Ritesh Reddy Thipparthi joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the second UMD computer science major and will embark on the challenging but fruitful arena of leveraging multisite cohort of renal histopathology data. Welcome, Ritesh! 

• 11/22/25: Jeremy and his doubles partner Saipriya won the consolation bracket of the Fall 2025 University of Maryland Internal Tournament Doubles! First badminton award for Jeremy as faculty! 

• 11/3/25: Chris Wu, an incredibly talented computer science undergraduate and badminton player (as well as Pokemon fan) at UMD joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the lab's first undergraduate student! Welcome, Chris! 

• 10/28/25: Connie and Lylybell's abstracts get accepted for posters at the SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting in Vancouver, BC - marking the first accepted posters under Jeremy's supervision! Huge congrats to Connie and Lylybell! 

• 10/21/25: Jeremy's co-authored paper got accepted in the journal Statistics and Data Science in Imaging! This is not only Jeremy's 11th paper, but the first project he ever worked on at Penn which was also handed down five times, starting in 2015 (handed off to Jeremy from 2018 - 2021)...and finalized just today! 

• 10/6/25: Abby Sun joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the first UMD and JHU graduate, as well as first official Pokenerd besides Jeremy to be in the lab! 

• 9/19/25: Hedwig Nordlinder joins the STARAPTOR Lab as the first trainee outside of the US - the lab goes global (at least to Stockholm University in Sweden)! Welcome, Hedwig! 

• 9/5/25: Jeremy's co-authored paper got accepted in the Journal of Nephrology, marking Jeremy's 10th ever paper woo hoo! 

• 8/24/25: Jeremy's oldest collaborative project from his grad school days, "Assessing the Quality of Deceased Donor Kidneys through Post-Transplant Survival Prediction Algorithms," was just accepted at the American Journal of Kidney Diseases! 

• 8/8/25: Jeremy's abstract "Predicting Delayed Graft Function Using Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Pathomics from Deceased Biopsy and Clinical Data" was selected for a poster presentation (SA-PO0015) at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2025! Sadly Jeremy can't be at his poster for presenting, but a collaborator will hopefully be in his place and go check it out! Collaborator Luís Rodrigues' work also based on the same co-first author paper as Jeremy's poster was accepted for an oral talk. Apparently only 1% of abstracts get accepted for an oral talk, wow! 

• 7/15/25: Jeremy publishes first-author paper in the Journal of Neuroimaging (https://doi.org/10.1111/jon.70071)! Congrats to myself, you know....because this website is mine...

• 6/6/25: STARAPTOR Lab welcomes its first three lab members: Huiqian from the University of Utah, as well as Connie and Lylybell from the University of South Florida with our first ever lab meeting! 

STARAPTOR Lab Pictures!