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Updated: 9/22/2025
May 2025: NIH/NIDCR R21 funded! We will develop a pragmatic and nationally-representative risk index for dental caries, in light of a new definition of caries, using NHANES. Serving as the Principal Investigator. Collaboration includes Florida State University (Dept. of Statistics), and University of Iowa (College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics)
Mar 2025: Appointed to serve as an Associate Editor for Biometrics, the flagship journal of the International Biometric Society, for the 3rd consecutive 2-year term
Nov 2024: Elected Honorary Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); VCU News; Massey News (repurposed)
Citation: "For distinguished contributions to the field of health data science, particularly oral epidemiology and cancer, for unflinching commitment to graduate education, and for exemplary service to the profession."
The AAAS is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society, and the publisher of cutting-edge research through the Science family of journals.
Aug 2024: Won Outstanding Chapter Service Award (Virginia Chapter) from the American Statistical Association
May 2024: Named as the 2024 Lowell Reed Lecturer by the Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association. VCU article
The Lowell Reed Lecture is given every year by a statistician, who has contributed significantly to public health through research, teaching, and services, to remember the accomplishments of Dr. Lowell Reed, and honor the accomplishments of the lecturer.
Sep 2022: NIH/NIDCR R21 funded! We will develop a pragmatic risk index for dynamic tooth survival prediction under extreme censoring patterns for elderly, with/without co-morbidities, such as Type-2 diabetes. Serving as the Principal Investigator. Collaboration includes University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the Univ. of Kentucky College of Dentistry
Sep 2022: NIH/NIDCR R01 funded! We will focus on developing population science approaches to addressing sex/gender differences among subjects with periodontal disease, with/without co-morbidities. Serving as the NIH Contact Principal Investigator. Collaboration includes University of Wisconsin, Madison (Co-PI: Dr. Debdeep Pati), NC State Univ., New York Univ., HealthPartners Institute and Kaiser Permanente.
Nov 2021: Appointed member of the editorial panel (Associate Editor) for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C (Applied Statistics), for a 4-year term, starting Jan 2022
Oct 2021: Recipient of the (inaugural) Dayanand Naik award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA); VCU blurb
Established in 2021 in memory of the life and contributions of Prof. Dayanand Naik from the Old Dominion University, the award recognizes an individual (who works, or resides in Virginia, during the time of the award) for outstanding research contributions and service to the Commonwealth of Virginia in statistics and related fields.
Oct 2021: NIH/NCI P20 SPORE (Specialized Programs Of Research Excellence) SUCCEED (VSU and Massey Cancer Center PartneErship for CancEr Disparities Research and Training) funded. Serving as Co-I/Project Biostatistician
Sep 2021: Invited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of JDR-Clinical and Translation Research -- the translation journal of the IADR
Sep 2021: NIH/NCI P20 SPORE (Specialized Programs Of Research Excellence) TRACER (Translation Research Center in Lung Cancer Disparities) funded. Serving as the PI/leader, Biostatistics and Informatics Core (Core D). More on TRACER appears here
Apr 2021: Recipient of the ASA's 2021 Outstanding Statistical Application award
Established in 1986, the award recognizes authors of papers that demonstrate an outstanding application of statistics in any substantive field.
Award Paper: Guan Q, Reich BJ, Laber E and Bandyopadhyay D. (2020). Bayesian nonparametric policy search with applications to periodontal recall intervals,
Journal of the American Statistical Association - Applications & Case Studies, 105(531), 1066-1078
Apr 2021: Appointed Associate Editor for Biometrics
Dec 2020: Appointed Associate Editor for Bayesian Analysis
Jun 2020: Elected Member, International Statistical Institute; Massey news
The Cox award annually recognizes a statistician in early to mid-career (< 15 years after terminal degree), who has made significant contributions to one or more areas of applied statistics in which Dr. Gertrude M. Cox worked in, which are survey methods, experimental design, biostatistics, and statistical computing.
A summary of Dr. Cox's illustrious career appears here
Feb 2020: SSOR/Biostatistics Distinguished Lecture series launched; inaugural speaker was Prof. Daniel Heitjan from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; VCU coverage here
Jan 2020: Paper on introducing SMART trials in Oral Health (non-surgical periodontal disease) selected as a high-impact funding among recent NIH/NIDCR funded research from the NIDCR's Center for Clinical Research, and included in the Director's Report to the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council
May 2019: Co-leader of the newly-launced Oral Health Disparities Workgroup, VCU Massey's Health Equity and Disparity program
Apr 2019: Collaboration on cancer therapeutics at VCU
Dec 2018: Associate Editor position for JASA-A&CS renewed for another 3 years
Sep 2018: Appointed Associate Editor for Statistics in Medicine
May 2018: PI'd NIH Grant (R03DE023372) with Brian J. Reich titled: "Exploring tooth survival using Bayesian spatial models", was selected by the NIH/NIDCR as an exemplary proposal for productivity, student involvement, and products available through professional website
Apr 2018: Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association; VCU coverage here
Citation: "For innovative applications to high impact problems in oral epidemiology and public health; for excellent research contributions to survival analysis, correlated data, spatial epidemiology and robust regression; for extensive biomedical collaborations; and for exemplary service to the profession"
Mar 2018: Collaboration (on fatty acids and breast cancer) with Dr. Frank Fang highlighted by VCU's Massey Cancer Center
Oct 2017: Received competitive supplement funding on R01 to study gender differences in precision dentistry
Jan 2016: Started my position as an Associate Editor [3-year term] for JASA-A&CS
Dec 2015: Young Statistical Scientist Award [Applied Category] from IISA; Coverage in UGA Statistics Newsletter here
Sep 2015: Newly funded NIH/NIDCR R01 on precision dentistry kick-off, in collaborations with Brian J. Reich and Eric Laber from the North Carolina State University and clinicans from the Health Partners Institute.
Aug 2015: 2014 Best Associate Editor for The Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics [JABES].
Citation: "In recognition for promptness, careful reviews, outstanding dedication, initiative, and tireless commitment to the journal".
UMN coverage here
Aug 2011: Recipient of the CDC/ATSDR Statistical Science Award for the Best Theoretical Paper
Award Paper: Datta S, Bandyopadhyay D, and Satten G. (2010). Inverse probability of censoring weighted U-statistics for right censored data with applications to testing of hypothesis, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37, 680-700
Jul 2011: CDC/ORISE Fellow on Oral Health Research
Student/Advisee News
Sep 2025: PhD advisee Mr. Samuel Soon secures 3rd place in the poster competition at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the ASA-VA Chapter, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Sep 2025: PhD advisee Mr. Samuel Soon secures 1st place in the 2025 VCU Biostatistics Student Research Symposium
Jan 2025: PhD mentee Ms. Snigdha Das receives honorable mention at the 2025 ASA SRMS/GSS/SSS Student Paper Competition
Sep 2024: PhD advisee Mr. Samuel Soon secures 2nd place in the 2024 VCU Biostatistics Student Research Symposium
Aug 2024: Postdoctoral advisee Dr. Inkoo Lee earns a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Dept. of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Georgia
Mar 2024: PhD advisee Mr. Edem Defor wins one of the VCU Graduate School Dissertation Completion award
Jan 2024: PhD advisee Ms. Atika Farzana Urmi secures employment at FDA
Oct 2023: Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Inkoo Lee joins research team
May 2023: Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qingyang (Kevin) Liu joins research team
Jan 2022: PhD advisee Mr. Reuben P. Retnam wins one of the VCU Graduate School Dissertation Completion award
Sep 2021: PhD co-advisee Mr. Douglas Azevedo's dissertation work won the Best Dissertation award, in conjunction with the 2021 SINAPE conference of the Brazilian Statistical Association
Mar 2020: PhD advisee Mr. Jonathan Yu selected for 2020 summer internship at FDA
May 2019: PhD advisee Mr. Reuben P. Retnam wins the VCU C.C.Clayton award for outstanding performance in graduate studies in the Basic Health Sciences (Biostatistics)
Apr 2019: PhD co-advisee Mr. Zhou Lan wins one of the 6 Student Travel Award to attend and present at the 2019 International Chinese Student Association (ICSA) Conference, scheduled at Raleigh, North Carolina, June 9-12.
Jan 2019: PhD co-advisee Mr. Zhou Lan wins the Student Paper Award Competition of the ASA's Section on Mental Health, and the Section on Statistics in Imaging, following a careful and deliberate review process. He accepted the award from the Section on Mental Health, and will present his work at the 2019 JSM [Joint Statistical Meetings], Denver, Colorado.
Dec 2017: PhD co-advisee Ms. Apurva Bhingare wins one of the 2018 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper awards
Aug 2017: Ph.D co-advisee Mr. Zhou Lan wins 2nd place in the 2017 ASA Statistical Significance Poster Contest. Zhou's poster was titled "Spatial Wishart Process and its Applications to Diffusion Tensor Imaging", and was presented at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meethings, Baltimore, MD.
Jan 2017: Ph.D co-advisee Ms. Qian Guan wins one of the ASA's Health Policy Statistics Section [HPSS] Student Travel Awards for our joint work on precision dentistry! She will attend and present the work at the 2017 JSM, Baltimore, MD.
Jan 2017: PhD co-advisee Ms. Apurva Bhingare wins one of the ASA's Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences [SBSS] Student Travel Awards to attend and present at the 2017 JSM [Joint Statistical Meetings], Baltimore, MD.
Nov 2016: Ph.D co-advisee Ms. Qian Guan wins one of the 2017 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper awards for our joint work on precision dentistry. She will present her work at the 2017 ENAR Spring Meetings, Washington DC
May 2016: VCU Biostatistics Summer Student Training Program Ms. Victoria Garcia declared Runner-up at the 2016 Joint Spring Meetings of the Virginia Academy of Sciences & the VA Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Dec 2015: Colombian former Fellow and PhD co-mentee Diana Milena Galvis Soto [current a faculty at the University of Quindio, Colombia] received honorable mention in the CAPES Thesis Award among all areas in Mathematical Sciences from the Brazilian Ministry of Education for her doctoral thesis on Bayesian inference for proportion data. The CAPES award is the highest national level recognition of PhD work conducted on the Brazilian soil.
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