Tong Tong Wu, PhD

Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Director, M.A. in Statistics and M.S. in Biostatistics Programs
Ph.D. (2006) University of California, Los Angeles

Contact Information

University of Rochester
Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
265 Crittenden Boulevard, CU 420630 
Rochester, New York 14642-0630
 
Office: Saunders Research Building 4141
Phone: (585) 276-6858
Fax: (585) 273-1031
E-mail: Tongtong_Wu@urmc.rochester.edu

Research Interests

As a biostatistician, Dr. Tong Tong Wu’s research interests include high-dimensional data analysis, survival analysis, machine learning, computational statistics, and computational biology. She is also interested in statistical applications and collaborations in various health, medical, and scientific areas, such as cancer, HIV, epidemiology, dental, and medical engineering.

Selected Publications

(*: joint first or senior authors; $: corresponding author; **: advisee/trainee of Dr. Wu)

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Statistical Papers

• Yang, L.** and Wu, T.T.$ (2022) Model-Based Clustering of High-Dimensional Longitudinal Data via Regularization. Biometrics, accepted.
• LaLonde, A.**, Love, T., Young, D.R., and Wu, T.T. (2022) Clustering Adolescent Female Physical Activity Levels with an Infinite Mixture Model  on Random Effects. Proceedings of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) 2022, accepted.
• Leon, S.**, Ren, J.**, Choe, R., and Wu, T.T. (2022) Semiparametric Mixed-Effects Model for Analysis of Non-invasive Longitudinal Hemodynamic Responses During Bone Graft Healing. PLOS ONE, accepted.
• Chang, J., Chen, S., Tang, C.Y., and Wu, T.T. (2021) (alphabetic order) High-Dimensional Empirical Likelihood Inference. Biometrika, Volume 108(1), 127-147.
        R code of a toy example: demo_rev
• Wang, D., Wu, T.T., and Zhao, Y. (2019) Penalized Empirical Likelihood for the Sparse Cox Regression Model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 201, 71-85.
• Ciminelli, J.T., Love, T., and Wu, T.T. (2019) Social Network Spatial Model. Spatial Statistics, Volume 29, 129-144.
• Chang, J., Tang, C.Y., and Wu, T.T. (2018) A New Scope of Penalized Empirical Likelihood with High-Dimensional Estimating Equations. Annals of Statistics, Volume 46, 3185--3216.

Collaborative Papers

• Johnson, T., Dar, I., Donohue, K., Xu, Y., Santiago, E., Selioutski, O., Marinescu, M., Maddox, R., Wu, T.T., Schifitto, G., Gosev, I.,  Choe, R., and Khan, I. (2022) Cerebral Blood Flow Hemispheric Asymmetry in Comatose Adults Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, accepted.
• Zeng, Y., Faddak, A., Alomeir, N., Wu, T.T.#, Rustchenko, E., Qing, S., Bao, J., Gilbert, C., and Xiao, J. (2022) Lactobacillus plantarum disrupts S. mutans-C. albicans cross-kingdom biofilms. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, accepted.
• Alzamil, H., Wu, T.T.#, van Wijngaarden, E., Mendoza, M., Malmstrom, H., Fiscella, K., Kopycka-Kedzierawski, D.T., Billings, R.J., and Xiao, J. (2021) Removable Denture Wearing as Risk Predictor for Pneumonia Incidence and Time-to-Event in Older Adult. JDR Clinical & Translational Research, ePub.
• Wu, T.T.$, Xiao, J., Sohn, M., Fiscella, K., Gilbert, C., Grier, A., Gill, A., and Gill, S. (2021) Machine learning approach identified multiplatform factors for caries prediction in child-mother dyads. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, ePub.
• Alkhars, N., Zeng, Y., Alomeir, N., Jallad, N.A., Wu, T.T.#, Aboelmagd, S., Youssef, M., Jang, H., Fogarty, C., and Xiao, J. (2021) Oral Candida Predicts Streptococcus Mutans Emergence in Underserved US Infants. Journal of Dental Research, accepted.
• Krieger, N.S., Asplin, J., Granja, I., Chen, L., Spataru, D., Wu, T.T.#, Grynpas, M., and Bushinsky, D.A. (2021) Chlorthalidone with Potassium Citrate Decreases Calcium Oxalate Stones and Increases Bone Quality in Genetic Hypercalciuric Stone-Forming Rats. Kidney International, Volume 99(5), 1118-1126.
• Chen, W.**, Fitzpatrick, J., Sozio, S.M., Jaar, B.G., Estrella, M.M., Riascos-Bernal, D.F., c, Qiu, Y., Kurland, I.J., Dubin, R.F., Chen, Y., Parekh, R.S., Bushinsky, D.A., and Sibinga, N. (2021) Identification of Novel Biomarkers and Pathways for Coronary Artery Calcification in Non-diabetic Patients on Hemodialysis. Kidney360, Volume 2(2), 279-289.
• Ramchandren, S., Wu, T.T.#, Finkel, R., Siskind, C., Feely, S., Burns, J.,  Reilly, M., Estilow, T., Shy, M., Bacon, C., Shy, R., Cornett, K., Muntoni, F., Day, J., Lloyd, T., Sumner, C., Herrmann, D., Kirk, C., Yum, S. (2021) Development and Validation of the Pediatric CMT Quality of Life Outcome Measure. Annals of Neurology, Volume 89(2), 369-379.