Baptized on 5/4/2003
Name pronunciation: "Show-How Joh"
Columbia University
2011, Ph.D. in Statistics
Dissertation: Bayesian Model Selection in terms of Kullback-Leibler discrepancy.
Supervised by Dr. David Madigan and Dr. Andrew Gelman
Peking University
2002, B.S. in Statistics and Probability; B.S. in Economics
Thesis: Probability Model Constructions Compatible with Directed Acyclic Graph.
Supervised by Dr. Zhongguo Zheng
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
2019- , Assistant Professor → Associate Professor
2024- , Director of Biostatistics PhD Program
2025- , Director of Methodology Excellence and Innovation Center
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Statistics
Penn State Cancer Institute, Next-Generation Therapies Program
University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Biostatistics
2012-2019, Instructor → Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty, Rice University
2025 iDEA-TECH Award, Sanofi.
2025 Faculty Research Grant Award, Four Diamonds Foundation.
2023-2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine.
2023 Early Career Research Award, Penn State University.
2022 SHARP Scholarship, Columbia University.
2016 Career Enhancement Award, Joe Moakley Leukemia SPORE.
2016 Commended Course of the Year, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
2011 SBSS Student Paper Award, American Statistical Association.
2002 Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University.
2001 Allstate Scholarship, Peking University.
1998 Tang Scholarship, Tang Educational Foundation.