Tong Tong Wu, PhD

Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Director, M.A. in Statistics and M.S. in Medical Statistics 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

• 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.
• Meng, Y., Wu, T.T., Billings, R., Kopycka-Kedzierawski, D.T., and Xiao, J. (2019) Human genes influence the interaction between Streptococcus mutans and host caries susceptibility: a genome-wide association study in children with primary dentition. International Journal of Oral Science, 11(2):19.
• Chen,W.**, Fitzpatrick, J., Monroy-Trujillo, J., Sozio, S., Jaar, B., Estrella, M.,Wu, T.T.#, Melamed, M., Parekh, R., and Bushinsky, D.A. (2019) Diabetes Mellitus Modifies the Associations of Serum Magnesium Concentration with Arterial Calcification and Stiffness in Incident Hemodialysis Patients. Kidney International Reports, Volume 4(6), 1794-1821.
• Konkel, B., Lavin, C., Wu, T.T.#, Anderson, E., Iwamoto, A., Rashid, H., Gaitian, B., Boones, J., Cooper, M., Abrams, P., Gilbert, A., Tang, Q., Levi, M., Fujimoto, J.G., Andrews, P., and Chen, Y. Fully automated analysis of OCT imaging of human kidneys for prediction of post-transplant function. Biomedical Optics Express, accepted.
• Young, D.R., Sidell, M., Koebnick, C., Saksvig, B.I., Mohan, Y., Cohen, D., and Wu, T.T.#* (2019) Longitudinal Sedentary Time among Females from Ages 17 to 23 Years. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 56(4), 540-547.