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Benjamin Risk

Benjamin Risk

Research interests

Statistics for neuroimaging; computational neuroscience; cognitive science; spatio-temporal processes; dimension reduction; multivariate statistics; independent component analysis; environmental statistics; functional data analysis.

Education

  • Ph.D. Statistics, Cornell University
    Advisors: David Ruppert and David Matteson
  • M.S. Statistics, Cornell University
  • M.S. Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A. Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Dartmouth College

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, July 2017 – present
    Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
  • Postdoc, August 2015 – June 2017
    Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle​ Park, NC
    Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Advisors: Hongtu Zhu (MD Anderson) and Daniel Rowe (Marquette University)

CV

Faculty Current
Xiyan Tan, PhD

Xiyan Tan, PhD

Current
Zihang Wang

Zihang Wang

Current
Sasha Greenspan

Sasha Greenspan

Staff Current
Hely Patel

Hely Patel

Staff Current
Jamie Kortanek

Jamie Kortanek

Current
Sydney Olson

Sydney Olson

Current
Xucheng (Fred) Huang

Xucheng (Fred) Huang

Current

Alum

Jialu Ran

Jialu Ran

Alumni
Yilu Li

Yilu Li

Current: Capstone
Correcting Biases in Neuroimaging Data Analysis with R.

Alumni
Ganzhong (Gavin) Tian

Ganzhong (Gavin) Tian

(Completed: Summer 2022). Probabilistic clustering of complex biomarker data for Alzheimer’s Disease. Position after graduation: Analyst for Amazon.

Alumni
Raphiel Murden

Raphiel Murden

(Completed: Summer 2021).

  • Topics in Data Integration Methods for Neuroimaging and Generalized Additive
  • Mixed Models for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Curves and Psychosocial Stressors. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University.
Alumni
Liangkang Wang

Liangkang Wang

(Completed: Master’s Thesis, Spring 2023). Compensating for selection bias when detecting altered functional connectivity in autism. Position after graduation: PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at Brown University.

Alumni
Jinyu Wang

Jinyu Wang

(Completed: Capstone, Spring 2023). Flexibly modeling motion confounders in functional connectivity studies with an application to autism.

Alumni
Sijian Fan

Sijian Fan

(Completed: Spring 2020). Improved Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with Relax and Split Approximation. Position after graduation: PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina.

Alumni
Lingyi Peng

Lingyi Peng

(Completed: Spring 2020). Variable Selection of Neuroimaging Features in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Position after graduation: PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Alumni
Liwei Wang

Liwei Wang

(Completed: Spring 2020). The impact of quality control exclusion criteria on functional connectivity in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Position after graduation: Statistical programmer for Novartis.

Alumni
Zixi Yang

Zixi Yang

(Completed: Spring 2019). The impact of initialization in optimization of independent components in functional magnetic  resonance imaging. Positions after graduation: PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at UT Health, the University of Texas.

Alumni
Mingrui Liang

Mingrui Liang

(Completed: Spring 2018). An exploration of time series models and their application to functional magnetic resonance imaging. Recently completed his PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Rice. Currently at Wells Fargo.

Alumni

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