Susmita Datta

Professional Biography Susmita Datta has received her PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA followed by a postdoctoral training in Biostatistics from the Emory University. She has joined the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida in 2015 with a Preeminent hire as a tenured Full Professor. Prior to that, she was a Distinguished Scholar and a Tenured Full Professor at the University of Louisville and at the Georgia State University as a tenured Associate Professor. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is one of the three elected members of the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), elected RECOMB member of ENAR of Biometric Society and was the elected President of Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2013. Her research area includes Biostatistics and Bioinformatics/Computational Biology. Her research contributions spans all ‘omics’ related high dimensional data such as RNA-sequencing, Single Cell RNA sequencing, Spatial transcriptomics, and mass spectrometry data for proteiomics, lipidomics, metabolomics and multi-omics integration. In addition to that, her computing laboratory is involved in methodological and software development in clustering and classification techniques, statistical issues in population biology, systems biology, survival analysis, multi-state models and big data analytics. She has published a book on “Statistical Analysis of Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Data Using Mass Spectrometry” by Springer. Dr. Datta is widely (>140) published in peer reviewed journals. The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have continuously funded her work. Her constant involvement with Big and fat data made her interested in Data science. She has guided more than 47 students through their theses and dissertations. She promotes women in STEM fields.

Clinical Research Interests: Birth Defects Research; Cancer Research

Methodological: Bioinformatics, Clustering and Classification, Genomics, Proteomics, Lipidomics, Single cell RNA sequencing data analysis, Network analysis,Infectious Disease Modeling, Non-linear Regression modeling for Systems Biology, Statistical Issues in Population Biology, Statistical Genetics, Systems Biology, Survival Analysis and Multi state models. Disease: Cancer, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Perkinsons, Infectious disease such as AIDS, COVID-2 and Zica related diseases. Expertise: • Biostatistics • Bioinformatics/Computational Biology • Genomics • Proteomics • Metabolomics/Lipidomics • Clustering and Classification • Population Biology • Survival Analysis • Nonparametrics • Personalized Medicine • Complex disease modeling and Biomarker identification in Cancer, Alzheimer, Pain and infectious diseases.