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.
• Yang, L.**, Young, D.R.$, and Wu, T.T.$ (2022) Clustering of Longitudinal Physical Activity Trajectories Among Young Females with Selection of Associated Factors. PLOS ONE, 17(5):e0268376.
• 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, 17(4):e0265471.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Wu, T.T.#, Xiao, J.,Manning, S.**, Saraithong, P., Pattanaporn, K., Paster, B., Chen, G., Vasani, S., Zeng, Y., Gilbert, C., and Li, Y. (2022) Multimodal data integration reveals mode of delivery and snack consumption outrank salivary microbiome in association with caries outcome in Thai children. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Volume 12:881899.
• Al-Jallad, N., Ly-Mapes, O., Hao, P., Ruan, J., Ramesh, A., Luo, J., Wu, T.T.#, Dye, T., Rashwan, N., Ren, J., Jang, H., Mendez, L., Alomier, N., Bullock, S., Fiscella, K., and Xiao, J. (2022) Artificial intelligence-powered smartphone application, AICaries, improves at-home dental caries screening in children: moderated and unmoderated usability test. PLOS Digital Health, Volume 1(6): e0000046.
• Moroni, I., Danti, F.R., Pareyson, D., Pagliano, E., Piscosquito, G., Foscan, M., Marchi, A., Ardissone, A., Genitrini, S., Wu, T.T., Shy. M.E., and Ramchandren. S. (2022) Validation of the Italian version of the Pediatric CMT Quality of Life Outcome Measure. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, accepted.
• 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, Volume 16:858404.
• 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, Volume 12:872012.
• Alkhars, N., Zeng, Y., Alomeir, N., Jallad, N.A., Wu, T.T.#, Aboelmagd, S., Youssef, M., Jang, H., Fogarty, C., and Xiao, J. (2022) Oral Candida Predicts Streptococcus Mutans Emergence in Underserved US Infants. Journal of Dental Research, Volume 101(1):54-62.
• 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, October 2021. doi:10.1177/23800844211049406.
• 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, Volume 11:727630.