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Debashis Ghosh, Ph.D.
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Biosketch
Debashis Ghosh is Professor of the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. He served as Chair for over ten years before stepping down in 2024. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and the Department of Statistics at Penn State University. His research interests focus on statistical machine learning, causal modelling and biomarker evaluation with applications in cancer. At the University of Colorado, he has developed collaborations in imaging, infectious disease and environmental health.
Recent courses developed/taught:
- BIOS 7732: Theory and Algorithms for Data Science
- BIOS 6624: Advanced Data Analysis
- BIOS 6690: MPH Capstone Preparation
- BIOS 6641: Causal Inference
- BIOS 6640: R for Data Science
Recent representative pulications
- Liu D, Lin X, Ghosh D. Semiparametric regression of multidimensional genetic pathway data: least-squares kernel machines and linear mixed models. Biometrics. 2007 Dec;63(4):1079-88. PubMed PMID: 18078480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2665800.
- Carpenter CM, Zhang W, Gillenwater L, Severn C, Ghosh T, Bowler R, Kechris K, Ghosh D. PaIRKAT: A pathway integrated regression-based kernel association test with applications to metabolomics and COPD phenotypes. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Oct 22;17(10):e1008986. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008986. PMID: 34679079; PMCID: PMC8565741.
- Simon OB, Buard I, Rojas DC, Holden SK, Kluger BM, Ghosh D. A novel approach to understanding Parkinsonian cognitive decline using minimum spanning trees, edge cutting, and magnetoencephalography. Sci Rep. 2021 Oct 5;11(1):19704. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99167-2. PMID: 34611218; PMCID: PMC8492620.
- Seal S, Bitler BG, Ghosh D. SMASH: Scalable Method for Analyzing Spatial Heterogeneity of genes in spatial transcriptomics data. PLoS Genet. 2023 Oct 20;19(10):e1010983. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010983. PMID: 37862362; PMCID: PMC10619839.