Wenbo Wu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics of the Department of Population Health and the Division of Nephrology of the Department of Medicine at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the NYU Center for Data Science. His current research synthesizes state-of-the-art methods from statistics, machine learning, optimization, and computational science to address critical and far-reaching issues in health equity, outcomes and services, and clinical practice, leveraging disease registries, administrative claims, electronic health records, and randomized controlled trials. In 2022, Wenbo received his joint Ph.D. in Biostatistics and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan. Before that, Wenbo earned his M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. in Labor Economics from the Central University of Finance and Economics, and B.A. in Financial Management from Tianjin University.
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[Nov 8, 2024] Wenbo will join the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Department of Biostatistics, the Center for Population Health Information Technology, and the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Section, starting on June 1, 2025.
[Aug 21, 2024] On Sep 30, 2024, Wenbo will give the inaugural webinar talk titled "Data Science-Powered Provider Profiling for Equitable Quality Care in Alzheimer's and Dementia" for the American Statistical Association Statistics and Data Science Interest Group.
[Jul 22, 2024] Wenbo will serve as a Statistical Reviewer of NEJM Evidence.
[Jul 2, 2024] Wenbo was selected as a Butler-Williams Scholar by the National Institute on Aging.
[Apr 24, 2024] Wenbo will talk about "Natural Language Processing to Identify Social Determinants of Health in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia from Electronic Health Records" at the 2024 DahShu Data Science Symposium on May 16, 2024.
[Mar 29, 2024] Jiayi Cheng, a research fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business, will join NYU Center for Data Science in Sep 2024 as a PhD student working with Sommer Gentry, Iván Díaz, Krzysztof Geras, and Wenbo.
[Mar 5, 2024] Alec McClean, a PhD candidate in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, will join NYU Grossman School of Medicine in July 2024 as a postdoctoral research fellow working with Iván Díaz and Wenbo.
[Feb 2, 2024] Wenbo was invited to give an Alumni Spotlight talk at the University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics.
[Jan 11, 2024] The video recording of my talk at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Department of Population Health Research Seminar on Jan 10, 2024 is available here upon request.
[Jan 9, 2024] A paper by Wenbo and colleagues titled "Competing Risk Modeling with Bivariate Varying Coefficients to Understand the Dynamic Impact of COVID-19" was published in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.