Biostatistics

KAUST Ph.D. candidate Mara Sherlin Talento wins International Statistics Institute (ISI) Services Award

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KAUST Ph.D. candidate Mara Sherlin Talento has received the International Statistics Institute (ISI) Services Award in recognition of her leadership, global outreach, and contributions to the development of young statisticians.

Meet KAUST new student: Daniel Osorio Barreto

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Daniel Osorio Barreto, is an economics graduate who joined KAUST this fall from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia. He is as a Ph.D. student and member of the KAUST Biostatistics Group under the supervision of Professor Hernando Ombao.

Shuhao Jiao

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics
Shuhao Jiao is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the KAUST Biostatistics Research Group. Before joining KAUST, Dr. Jiao received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2019 from University of California, Davis. He is interested in statistical learning of complicated neuroimage data. He addresses these problems using novel statistical theory and methods in functional data analysis and machine learning. Education 2019: Ph.D., Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis. 2014: BSc (Mathematics & Statistics), Shandong University, Jinan, China. Research Interest Functional data analysis, Time series

Mara Sherlin Talento

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
We do not gain confidence through measuring what we know, but through quantifying how much we do not know. Mara Sherlin Talento is a PhD student in the Biostatistics group of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Hernando Ombao. She finished her Master’s degree in University of the Philippines and served the chairperson of Young Statisticians Committee of the International Statistical Institute during 2020 – 2023. She is also a member of American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society.

Janet van Niekerk

Research Scientist, Statistics
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Farah Abdulrazak Gomawi

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Farah Abdulrazak Gomawi is a Ph. D. student in Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Prof. Hernando Ombao. Education and Early Career Farah Abdulrazak Gomawi received her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States, with the KAUST Gifted Student Program (KGSP) scholarship in 2023. Prior to this, she was a visiting student in the Biostatistics group in the summer of 2022. Research Interest Farah's research interests include time series analysis, machine

Daniel Osorio Barreto

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Daniel Osorio Barreto is a Ph.D. student and member of the KAUST Biostatistics Group under the supervision of Professor Hernando Ombao. Before joining KAUST, Daniel obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales and an M.Sc. in Economics from Universidad de Manizales, Colombia. Research Interests Daniel's research interests include biostatistics, behavioral economics, and macroeconomics.