Leadership Team

To harness the power of increasingly large and complex data, Montefiore Einstein’s Data Science Institute aligns interdisciplinary research and education experts in biostatistics, bioinformatics, epidemiology, health research informatics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

Mimi Kim, Sc.D.

Director, Data Science Institute
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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Deyou Zheng, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Data Science Institute
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Genetics, and Neuroscience

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Xiaonan Xue, Ph.D.

Faculty Lead for Biostatistics
Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, Albert Einstein Cancer Center

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Tao Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Lead for Bioinformatics
Director, Genetic and Genomics Data Analysis Unit, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health

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Melissa J. Fazzari, M.S., Ph.D.

Faculty Lead for AI/ML
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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Core Team

Zhengdong Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Genetics

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Kenny Q. Ye, Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics) and Systems & Computational Biology

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Kith Pradhan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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Roger L. Chang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Systems & Computational Biology and Biochemistry

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Jee Young Moon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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Kai Luo, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Epidemiology)

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Angel Garcia de la Garza, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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En Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Epidemiology)

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Juan Lin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)

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Sunit P. Jariwala, M.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine (Allergy & Immunology)

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Shitij Arora, M.B., B.S.

Professor, Department of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

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Pavel Goriacko, M.P.H., Pharm.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Epidemiology)

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