Departmental Affiliations
Brian Caffo, PhD, MS, is a biostatistician who studies big, complex data in the neurosciences.
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Experiences & Accomplishments
Brian Caffo, PhD is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the University of Florida Department of Statistics in 2001. He has worked in statistical computing, statistical modeling, computational statistics, multivariate and decomposition methods and statistics in neuroimaging and neuroscience. He led teams that won the ADHD 200 prediction competition. He co-directs the SMART statistical group. With other faculty at JHU, he created and co-directs the Coursera Data Science Specialization, a 10 course specialization on statistical data analysis. He co-directs the JHU Data Science Lab, a group dedicated to open educational innovation and data science. He is the former director of the Biostatistics graduate programs and admissions committees. He is currently the co-director of the Johns Hopkins High Performance Computing Exchange super computing service center and past-president of the Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty senate.
For more information, see my personal page www.bcaffo.com
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award
- 2015 Special Invited Lecturer, European Meeting of Statisticians
- 2014 Named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- 2014 Named a Member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society
- 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2010, awarded in 2011); The highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers
- 2011 Leader and organizer of the declared winning entry of the 2011 ADHD200 prediction competition
- 2008 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Golden Apple teaching award
- 2006 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award
- 2002 Johns Hopkins Faculty Innovation Award
- 2001 University of Florida Statistics Faculty Award
- 2001 University of Florida CLAS Dissertation Fellowship
- 1999 Anderson Scholar/Faculty nominee for the University of Florida CLAS
- 1998 William S. Mendenhall Award
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Selected publications
Punjabi, N.M., Caffo, B.S., Goodwin, J.L., Gottlieb, D.J., Newman, A.B., O'Connor, G.T., Rapoport, D.M., Redline, S., Resnick, H.E., Robbins, J.A. and Shahar, E., 2009. Sleep-disordered breathing and mortality: a prospective cohort study. PLoS medicine, 6(8), p.e1000132.
Segev, D.L., Muzaale, A.D., Caffo, B.S., Mehta, S.H., Singer, A.L., Taranto, S.E., McBride, M.A. and Montgomery, R.A., 2010. Perioperative mortality and long-term survival following live kidney donation. Jama, 303(10), pp.959-966.
Caffo, Brian S., Wolfgang Jank, and Galin L. Jones. "Ascent-based Monte Carlo expectation–maximization." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 67.2 (2005): 235-251.
Agresti, A. and Caffo, B., 2000. Simple and effective confidence intervals for proportions and differences of proportions result from adding two successes and two failures. The American Statistician, 54(4), pp.280-288.
Yue C, Zipunnikov V, Bazin PL, Pham D, Reich D, Crainiceanu C, Caffo B. Parameterization of white matter manifold-like structures using principal surfaces. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2016 Jul 2;111(515):1050-60.