Veera Baladandayuthapani

Veera Baladandayuthapani is an Indian and American statistician, currently serving as Jeremy M.G. Taylor Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is widely recognized for his pioneering research in biostatistics, cancer data science, and the development of Bayesian methods for high-dimensional biomedical data analysis.

Early life and education Baladandayuthapani was born in India. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, earning a BSc in Mathematics and Computing. He received a MA in Statistics from the University of Rochester in 2000 and a PhD in Statistics from Texas A&M University in 2005. in top statistical, machine learning, bioinformatics, biomedical, and oncology journals, and a book on Bayesian analysis of gene expression data. His group has developed multiple software tools for integrative genomics and spatial biology.

Honors and recognition Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA) Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI) Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship, Harvard School of Public Health (2019) H. O. Hartley Award, Texas A&M University (2018) Young Researcher Award, International Indian Statistical Association (2015) Faculty Scholar Award, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (2014) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Professional memberships American Statistical Association International Statistical Institute American Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected publications Baladandayuthapani, V. Bayesian Hierarchical Varying-Sparsity Model with Application to Cancer Proteogenomics. Journal of American Statistical Association. 2018. Ni, Y, Stingo S., Baladandayuthapani, V. Bayesian Graphical Regression. Journal of American Statistical Association. 2018. Bharath, K, Kurtek, S, Rao, AU.K., Baladandayuthapani, V. Radiologic Image-based Statistical Shape Analysis of Brain Tumors. Journal of Royal Statistical Society - Series C. 2018.

Personal life Baladandayuthapani lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife Upali Nanda, Professor of Practice of Architecture at the University of Michigan and EVP, Global Sector Director of Innovation at HKS, Inc. He has two sons, Aarith and Aayush.