I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I also hold a secondary appointment at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Before joining UAB, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biostatistics in the University of Michigan where I worked with Dr Veera Baladandayuthapani. I graduated from the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University under supervision of Dr Anirban Bhattacharya and Dr Debdeep Pati in 2020. Here is my CV.
My research interests are
Methodological
Bayesian Graphical modeling,
Bayesian Computation on Non-standard manifolds,
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling,
Variational Bayes,
Applications
Single cell sequencing data analysis,
Spatial Transcriptomics,
Cancer,
Neuro and cancer imaging.
Updates
Invited talk at JSM 2025 (August 2025)
New publication in Frontiers in Immunology: The tumor microenvironment across four dimensions: assessing space and time in cancer biology. [ Manuscript ] (June 2025)
New preprint: Spatial analysis reveals a novel inflammatory tumor transition state which promotes a macrophage-driven induction of sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. [ Manuscript ] (June 2025)
Invited talk at IISA 2025. (June 2025)
New preprint: Spatially varying graph estimation for spatial transcriptomics cancer data. [Manuscript | Code] (May 2025)
Invited talk at STATGEN 2025. (May 2025)
CAFE is accepted in Bioinformatics. [Manuscript | Code] (April 2025)
Invited talk at Powertalk Seminar Series, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, UAB (February 2025)
GraphR is accepted in Cell Reports Methods. [Manuscript | Supplementary | Code | Shiny App] (January 2025)
Awarded School of Public Health Pilot Award (Accelerator Award) at UAB. (January 2025)
Invited talk at IISA 2024. (December 2024)
Started an Assistant professor position at the Department of Biostatistics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (August 2024)