Subharup Guha

Subharup Guha,

Associate Professor

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS
Business Phone: (352) 294-5921
Business Email: s.guha@ufl.edu

Accomplishments

Top Faculty Achiever
2016 · University of Missouri
Faculty Fellowship Award
2014 · Department of Statistics, University of Missouri
Craig Cooley Memorial Prize -for scholarly excellence and leadership qualities
2004 · Department of Statistics, Ohio State University
Thomas and Jean Powers Teaching Award
2003 · Department of Statistics, Ohio State University
Student Paper Competition Award
2002 · ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Sections

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018-2024
PHC6937 Special Topics in Public Health
2020-2024
PHC7090 Advanced Biostatistical Methods I
2018-2020,2022
PHC7979 Advanced Research
2021
PHC6905 Independent Study
2021-2022
PHC7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation

Research Profile

Subha Guha is an expert in statistical modeling for cancer genomics and computing for omics and microbiome datasets. As PI or co-Investigator of research grants from NIH and NSF, he has developed novel models for integrative analyses of multi-domain, high-throughput biomedical studies. He has extensive experience with statistical computing to efficiently implement these methodologies for high-dimensional data.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-5524-1827

Areas of Interest
  • Bayesian modeling
  • Biostatistics
  • Causal inference
  • Clustering and classification
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational methods for Big Data
  • Connectomics
  • Development and testing of novel medical devices
  • Generalized linear models
  • Health disparities and vulnerable populations
  • Hidden Markov models
  • High-dimensional inference
  • MCMC simulation
  • Meta-analysis
  • Microbiome data analysis
  • Nonparametric Bayesian methods
  • Observational studies
  • Statistical computing
  • Statistical methods
  • Survival Analysis
  • cancer genomics
  • electronic health records

Publications

2023
What is the probability of realizing a distribution from a stick-breaking process that falls outside an epsilon-ball on the base measure?
Bayesian Analysis. 81:352-353
2022
A novel approach to augment single-arm clinical studies with real-world data.
Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics. 32(1):141-157 [DOI] 10.1080/10543406.2021.2011902. [PMID] 34958629.
2022
Predicting Phenotypes from Brain Connection Structure
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics. 71(3):639-668 [DOI] 10.1111/rssc.12549.
2021
Metagenomic Geolocation Prediction Using an Adaptive Ensemble Classifier.
Frontiers in genetics. 12 [DOI] 10.3389/fgene.2021.642282. [PMID] 33959149.
2020
A Bayesian Restoration of the Duality between Principal Components of a Distance Matrix and Operational Taxonomic Units in Microbiome Analyses
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2020
Probabilistic Detection and Estimation of Conic Sections from Noisy Data
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
2020
Semiparametric Bayesian Markov Analysis of Personalized Benefit-Risk Assessment
Annals of Applied Statistics.
2019
A genomics-informed computational biology platform prospectively predicts treatment responses in AML and MDS patients.
Blood advances. 3(12):1837-1847 [DOI] 10.1182/bloodadvances.2018028316. [PMID] 31208955.
2017
Semiparametric Bayesian Analysis of High-Dimensional Censored Outcome Data
. 194-204
2016
A Nonparametric Bayesian Technique for High-Dimensional Regression
. 10:3374-3424
2015
A Hidden Markov Model for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes from RNA-Seq Data
Annals of Applied Statistics. 9:901-925
2015
Nonparametric Variable Selection, Clustering and Prediction for Large Biological Datasets
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2014
Bayesian disease classification using copy number data.
Cancer informatics. 13(Suppl 2):83-91 [DOI] 10.4137/CIN.S13785. [PMID] 25336897.
2011
Discussion of Sampling schemes for generalized linear Dirichlet process random e_ects models by Kyung, Gill and Casella
Statistical Methods and Applications. 20:291-293
2010
Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array CGH Data
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 103(482):485-497 [DOI] 10.1198/016214507000000923. [PMID] 22375091.
2010
Parametric and Semiparametric Hypotheses in the Linear Model
. 39:165-180
2010
Posterior Simulation in Countable Mixture Models for Large Datasets
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 105:775-786
2009
Gauss-Seidel Estimation of Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Application to Poisson Modeling of Spatially Varying Disease Rates
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 18:818-837
2008
Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array CGH Data.
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 103(482):485-497 [PMID] 22375091.
2008
Posterior Simulation in the Generalized Linear Mixed Model with Semiparametric Random Effects
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 17:410-425
2006
Generalized Post-stratification and Importance Sampling for Subsampled Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation
Journal of the American Statistical Association. 101:1175-1184
2006
Mixture Cure Survival Models with Dependent Censoring
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-Statistical Methodology. 69:285-306
2005
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Ischemic Heart Disease in NSW, Australia
Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 12:427-448
2004
Benchmark Estimation for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Samples
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 13:683-701
2003
Discussion of A theory of statistical models for Monte Carlo integration by Kong, McCullagh, Nicolae, Tan and Meng
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-Statistical Methodology. 65

Grants

Jun 2023 ACTIVE
The Boston Lung Cancer Survivor Cohort
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH via NATL INST OF HLTH NCI
May 2023 ACTIVE
Nervous system influences on recovery from painful rotator cuff tears
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIAMS
Sep 2022 ACTIVE
Detecting racial disparities in cancer survival by integrating multiple high-dimensional observational studies
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF MICHIGAN via NATL INST OF HLTH NCI
Sep 2020 – Sep 2023
Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment among People Living with or at Risk for HIV
Role: Project Manager
Funding: RUTGERS STATE UNIV via US HLTH RESOURCES AND SERV ADMN HIV/AIDS
Sep 2018 – Aug 2020
New Bayesian Nonparametric Paradigms of Personalized Medicine for Lung Cancer
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL SCIENCE FOU

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2004-2007 · Harvard School of Public Health
Ph.D. in Statistics
1999-2004 · Ohio State University
M.Sc. (5-Year Integrated) in Statistics
1992-1997 · Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5921
Emails:
Business:
s.guha@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 117450
GAINESVILLE FL 326110001
Business Street:
2004 MOWRY RD., CTRB, RM. 5225
GAINESVILLE FL 32610