Shikun Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) at CUMC

Overview

Shikun Wang, PhD, is the Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Wang work closely with investigators in the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and reporting of their clinical, laboratory and population science studies. She actively collaborates on research initiatives, grant proposals, and scientific publications. She also advises the clinical trial Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee to provide statistical review of the design of studies and conduct.

Her methodological research focuses on developing novel statistical methods for health service research using joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data. Dr. Wang’s group is also actively working on developing novel technologies for performing single-cell RNA sequencing, in addition to innovative computational and statistical methods for analyzing the resulting large-scale datasets.

Dr. Wang was born and grew up in Guangzhou, China. She graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and Applied Mathematics and earned his master's degree in applied Statistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she contributed to research projects in the medical school and cancer center. She completed her PhD in Biostatistics at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Education & Training

PhD, Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

MS, Applied Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BS, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University

Visiting scholar, Computer Science, Rice University

Honors & Awards

2021 U.S. Food and Drug Administration ORISE Fellowship, Silver Spring, MD

2020 The Antje Wuelfrath Gee and Harry Gee, Jr. Family Legacy Scholarship, Houston, TX

2020 GSBS/MDACC Student Travel Award, Houston, TX

2020 JSM 2020 LiDS Section Student Paper Award, Alexandria, VA

2015 Zhejiang University First-Class Research and Innovation Scholarship, Hangzhou, China

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) at CUMC

Gender

Female

Research

Dr. Wang’s research ideas are inspired by the interesting phenomena that arise from simple observations in her own life. Broadly speaking, her research areas are at the intersection of statistical methodology and collaborative research in clinical sciences. Specifically, She has a keen interest in understanding the influence of medical cost data on the production, dissemination, and use of medical information in health service evaluation. In addition, her research also explores how "learning" affects the decision-making of analysts and policy makers. Her approach is interdisciplinary, integrating tools and insights from biomedicine, statistics, economics, and computer science. Dr. Wang’s work has appeared in high-impact journals such as Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Journal of Clinical Oncology, etc. She has received multiple awards recognizing the impact of her research.

Research Interests:

Statistical methodology research: Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data; Propensity score analysis; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Clinical trials; Observational studies; Electronic health records; Medical costs modeling, Single-Cell RNA seq.

Collaborative research in clinical sciences: Cancer treatment development; Chronic disease epidemiology; Population health and behavioral sciences.

Selected Publications

S. Wang, J. Ning, Y. Shen, Y.T. Shih, Y. Xu, L. Li (2023+). Longitudinal Varying Coefficient Single-index Model with Censored Covariates. Biometrics.

S. Wang, J. Ning, Y. Shen, Y.T. Shih, Y. Xu, L. Li (2023). An extension of estimating equations to model longitudinal medical cost trajectory with Medicare claims data linked to SEER cancer registry. Annals of Applied Statistics.

S. Wang, Z. Li, L. Lan, J. Zhao, W.J. Zheng, L. Li (2022). GPU accelerated estimation of a shared random effect joint model for dynamic prediction. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

S. Wang, Y. Shen, Y.T. Shih, Y. Xu, L. Li (2021). Statistical modeling of longitudinal medical cost trajectory: renal cell cancer care cost analyses. Biostatistics.

M. Zhang, Y. Yu, S. Wang, M. Salvatore, L.G. Fritsche, Z. He, and B. Mukherjee (2020). Interaction analysis under misspecification of main effects: Some common mistakes and simple solutions. Statistics in medicine.

M.E. Caram, S. Wang, P. Tsao, J.J. Griggs, D.C. Miller, B.K. Hollenbeck, P. Lin, and B. Mukherjee (2019). Patient and provider variables associated with systemic treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Urology practice.

M.E. Caram, S. Wang, P.A. Cheng, J.J. Griggs, P. Lin, and B. Mukherjee (2018). Patient and provider variables associated with variation in the systemic treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology.