Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Faculty and Staff
Samprit Banerjee, PhD, MStat, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India and obtained a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Banerjee’s research interest in statistical methodology is primarily in Bayesian methods for high dimensional data. He has developed a Bayesian multivariate regression framework performing variable selection on a large number of independent variables with applications to statistical genetics (QTL mapping). He has also worked on the estimation of high dimensional covariance matrices. His other interests include Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian and non-Bayesian variable selection, generalized linear models and mixed models and categorical data analysis.
Dr. Banerjee’s applied research in biomedical sciences has broadly been in computational genomics. He has worked extensively on gene expression data from various platforms, genome-wide association studies of SNPs and copy number variants, enrichment of molecular pathways, impact of structural variants in the evolution of pathways and next generation sequencing data. He has developed computational methods to detect copy number variants from array data and also worked on detecting mutations by a Bayesian hierarchical measurement error model on next-generation sequencing data. Dr. Banerjee is also interested in health services research and comparative effectiveness of medical devices specially related to orthopedics and hip-replacement surgeries.
