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 and statistical genetics. She is also interested in statistical applications and collaborations in various health, medical, and scientific areas, such as cancer, HIV, epidemiology, psychology, and medical engineering.
Selected Publications
(*: joint first or senior authors; $: corresponding author; **: advisee/trainee of Dr. Wu)
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Statistical Papers
- Chang, J., Chen, S., Tang, C.Y., and Wu, T.T. (2020) High-Dimensional Empirical Likelihood Inference. Biometrika, accepted.
- 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.
- Aditya, P., Sen, R., Oh, S.J., Benenson, R., Bhattacharjee, B., Druschel, P., Wu, T.T., Fritz, M., and Schiele, B. (2016) I-Pic: A Platform for Privacy-Compliant Image Capture. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'16), 235-248.
Collaborative Papers
- Chen, W., Fitzpatrick, J., Sozio, S.M., Jaar, B.G., Estrella, M.M., Riascos-Bernal, D.F., Wu, T.T.#, Qiu, Y., Kurland, I.J., Dubin, R.F., Chen, Y., Parekh, R.S., Bushinsky, D.A., and Sibinga, N. (2020) Identification of Novel Biomarkers and Pathways for Coronary Artery Calcification in Non-diabetic Patients on Hemodialysis. Kidney360, accepted.
- 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. (2020) Development and Validation of the Pediatric CMT Quality of Life Outcome Measure. Annals of Neurology, accepted.
- Koebnick, C., Saksvig, B.I., Li, X., Sidell, M., Wu, T.T.#, and Young, D.R. (2020) The Accuracy of Self-Reported Body Weight Is High but Dependent on Recent Weight Change and Negative Affect in Teenage Girls. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 17(21), 8203.
- Ren, J., Ramirez, G.A., Proctor, A.R., Wu, T.T.#, Benoit, D., and Choe, R. (2020) Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging for Longitudinal Monitoring of Vascularization during Mouse Femoral Graft Healing. Biomedical Optics Express, Volume 11(10), 5442-5455.
- Xiao, J., Fogarty, C., Wu, T.T.#, Alkhers, N., Zeng, Y., Thomas, M., Youssef, M., Wang, L., Cowens, L., Abdelsalam, H., and Nikitkova, A. (2019) Oral health and Candida carriage in socioeconomically disadvantaged US pregnant women. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Volume 19, 480.