Brian Caffo

Brian Caffo
Alma materUniversity of Florida
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
ThesisCandidate sampling schemes and some important applications (2001)
Doctoral advisorJames G. Booth

Brian Caffo is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] He graduated from the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida in 2001, and from the Department of Mathematics at UF in 1995. His doctoral advisor was James G. Booth. He works in the fields of computational statistics and neuroinformatics and co-created the SMART working group.[2] He has been the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Golden Apple and AMTRA teaching awards.[3]

He teaches several open online courses on the online learning platform Coursera, including: Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1; Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2; Advanced Linear Models for Data Science 1: Least Squares; Advanced Linear Models for Data Science 2: Statistical Linear Models; Statistical Inference; Regression Models; Developing Data Products.[4]

  1. ^ Health, JH Bloomberg School of Public. "Brian S. Caffo - Faculty Directory - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Home - smart-stats.org". Smart-stats.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. ^ Grillo, Christine (29 May 2008). "2008 Golden Apple Award Winners". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Brian Caffo, PHD, Instructor".