Biostatistics Seminar Series: Functional Data Depth and its Applications to Health Sciences.

Dr. Sara Lopez-Pintado obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She spent one year as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University. In 2007-2008 she visited the Department of Biostatistics in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, supported by a grant from the Spanish Government. Subsequently, Dr. Lopez-Pintado was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Columbia University, where she combined methodological and collaborative research with teaching duties. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She was recently awarded with a R21 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH and an NSF collaborative grant on novel statistics methods for complex object data. Her research is focused on the development of robust nonparametric and computational methods for ranking, visualizing, and analyzing high-dimensional data such as functions, medical images, time series, and non-Euclidean object data. She has published several relevant and influential papers in the field of robust functional data analysis. Dr. Lopez-Pintado is interested in collaborating in interdisciplinary research projects in Biomedicine. She is also passionate about teaching statistics to undergraduate and graduate students.