Earnest Corn Professor & Department Head, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology Dr. Ye Shen is the Ernest Corn Professor and Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Gerontology. His expertise lies in statistical methods for epidemiologic research, including longitudinal data analysis, spatial statistics, and causal inference. Dr. Shen’s research interests include joint modeling of longitudinal and recurrent event data, survival analysis, and semi-parametric regression methods. He also investigates missing data problems in clinical trials and develops statistical approaches for complex biomedical and public health studies. His work integrates methodological rigor with applications in epidemiology and biostatistics. Education: PhD, Biostatistics, Yale University, 2011 BS, Statistics, Fudan University, 2003 Research Research Interests: joint modeling longitudinal data analysis spatial statistics recurrent event modeling survival analysis semi-parametric regression methods missing data problems in clinical trials