First position after graduation
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Thesis:
Joint Modeling Methods for Individual-level Variances as Predictors of Health Outcomes. Co-Chair with Michael Elliott
Education:
2018-2023, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2012-16, Bachelor of Science, Economics; Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics. University of Washington, Seattle
Awards:
Papers (selected)
1. Variance as a predictor of health outcomes:using subject-level trajectories and variability of sex hormones to predict body fat changes in peri- and post-menopausal women (2023).
Irena Chen,
Zhenke Wu,
Sioban D Harlow,
Carrie A Karvonen-Gutierrez,
Michelle M Hood,
Michael R Elliott (2023).
► Annals of Applied Statistics (Accepted).
[paper link]
[pdf]
[supplement]
2. Tree-informed Bayesian multi-source domain adaptation: cross-population probabilistic cause-of-death assignment using verbal autopsy (2023).
Zhenke Wu,
Zehang Li,
Irena Chen,
Mengbing Li.
► Biostatistics.
[paper link]
[code]
[supplement]
[slides]
3. Etiology of acute lower respiratory illness hospitalizations among infants in four countries (2023).
John Kubale*,
Stephanie Kujawski*,
Irena Chen,
Zhenke Wu,
Ilham Abu Khader,
Iris Hasibra,
Brett Whitaker,
Lionel Gresh,
Artan Simaku,
Eric A.F. Simões,
Mahmoud Al-Gazo,
Shannon Rogers,
Susan I. Gerber,
Angel Balmaseda,
Veronica L. Tallo,
Tareq M. Al-Sanouri,
Rachael Porter,
Silvia Bino,
Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner,
Meredith McMorrow,
Danielle Hunt,
Mark Thompson,
Holly M. Biggs,
Aubree Gordon (2023).
► Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
[doi]
4. Bayesian Nested Latent Class Models for Cause-of-Death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies Across Multiple Domains (2023).
Richard Zehang Li,
Zhenke Wu,
Irena Chen,
Samuel Clark (2023).
► Annals of Applied Statistics.
[paper link]
[code]
5. A joint modeling approach to study the association between subject-level longitudinal marker variabilities and repeated outcomes (2023+).
Irena Chen,
Zhenke Wu,
Sioban D Harlow,
Carrie A Karvonen-Gutierrez,
Michelle M Hood,
Michael R Elliott (2023+).
► Submitted.
[pdf]
6. baker: An R package for Nested Partially-Latent Class Models (2023+).
Irena Chen,
Qiyuan Shi,
Scott Zeger,
Zhenke Wu.
► Submitted.
[paper link]
[code]
[pdf]
7. Probabilistic Cause-of-disease Assignment using Case-control Diagnostic Tests: A Hierarchcial Bayesian Latent Variable Regression Approach (2020).
Zhenke Wu,
Irena Chen.
► Statistics in Medicine
[paper link]
[code]
[doi]
[supplement]
[slides]