Jaya Satagopan

Jaya Mathangi Satagopan is an Indian and American biostatistician and epidemiologist whose research applies statistical genetics in understanding the genetic risk factors for cancer. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers University, a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Rutgers School of Public Health.

Education and career Satagopan received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Madras in 1988, a master's degree in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1990, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin in 1995. Her doctoral dissertation, A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Detect Polygene Loci for Complex Traits, was supervised by Brian Yandell. She received a second master's degree, in science communication and public engagement, from the University of Edinburgh, in 2019.

She worked as a biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City from 1995 until 2019, also holding a courtesy appointment in biostatistics at Weill Cornell Medicine from 2009 to 2019. In 2019, she moved to Rutgers University as a full professor. At Rutgers, she was appointed as interim associate dean in 2020 and as associate dean in 2021.

Recognition Satagopan was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in the 2015 class of fellows. She is also a Fellow of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society, elected in 2019.