Steffen Ventz

Research Group


Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Graduate Student in Biostatistics, UMN

Background: B.S. and M.S. in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2019 and 2021.

Research interests: Imaging Genetics and fMRI data analyses, clinical trials, data integration.

Jialing Liu, Graduate Student in Biostatistics, UMN

Background: B.S. in Statistics, and M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 2020 and 2023.

Research interests: transfer Learning, Bayesian Methodology, and Clinical Trial designs.

Aidan Neher, Graduate Student in Biostatistics, UMN

Background: BA in Biology, Carleton College, 2017, IT Manager at Engage Health, Inc, Consult for local non-profit First Children's Finance.

Research interests: causal inference, clinical trial design, statistical methods for resource allocation decision-making in healthcare systems.

Brent Strong, Graduate Student in Biostatistics, UMN, 2023-present

Background: MSc in Statistics, University of Glasgow, MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy, University of Birmingham

Research interests: Bayesian multi-omics mixed model for large cohort studies, transfer learning, RWE, Clinical Trial designs.

Steffen Ventz, PhD, Assistant Professor

Background: B.S. and M.S. in Mathematical Demography, University of Rostock, Germany, M.Phil and Ph.D in Statistics, Bocconi University, Italy.

Research interests: Bayesian Statistics, Decision Theory, Data Integration, Adaptive Designs.

Zilin Wang, Graduate Student in Biostatistics, UMN

Background: B.S. in Economic Statistics, Anhui University, China 2021.

Research interests: Meta-analysis, Adaptive trial design, Bayesian statistics, Causal Inference, Longitudinal data analysis, Survival analysis.