PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Statistical Scientist, 2021 - present
Statistical Scientist, 2019 - 2021
Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Research and early development in oncology, biostatistics
Research Consultant, 2017 - 2019
Biostatistics Student Consulting Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Student Intern, 2013
Clinical & Translational Research Institute, San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Biostatistics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2019
Dissertation topic: Contributions to missing data methods in single-cell genomics and survival analysis
Committee: Drs. Guo-Cheng Yuan, Franziska Michor, Giovanni Parmigiani
M.A. Biostatistics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2016
B.S. Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude, University of California San Diego, 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, 2019
Summer Program in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Teaching Assistant, 2016 - 2018
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- BST 210 Applied Regression Analysis
- BST 226 Applied Longitudinal Analysis
- ID 201 Core Principles of Biostatistics and Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
Co-founder and Instructor, 2015 - 2018
StatStart: a High School Summer Program in Biostatistics, Boston, MA
Teaching Assistant, 2013 - 2014
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
MATH 10ABC Calculus Series
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jemaa, S., Paulson, J. N., Hutchings, M., Kostakoglu, L., Trotman, J., Tracy, S., de Crespigny, A., Carano, R. A. D., El-Galaly, T. C., Nielsen, T., & Bengtsson, T. (2022). Full automation of total metabolic tumor volume from FDG-PET/CT in DLBCL for baseline risk assessments. Cancer Imaging, 22(39). doi: 10.1186/s40644-022-00476-0.
Herrera, A. F.†, Tracy, S.†, Croft, B., Opat, S., Ray, J., Lovejoy, A., Musick, L., Paulson, J. N., Sehn, L. H., Jiang, Y. (2022). Risk profiling of patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by measuring circulating tumor DNA. Blood Advances, 6(6). doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006415.
Chen, T.†, Tracy, S.†, Uno, H. (2021). OptBand: optimization-based confidence bands for functions to characterize time-to-event distributions. Lifetime Data Analysis, 27: 481-498. doi: 10.1007/s10985-021-09522-8.
Duanmu, Y., Choi, D., Tracy, S., Harris O. M., Shleifer, J. I., Dadabhoy, F., Wu, J. C., Platz, E. (2020). A novel risk prediction score for emergency department patients with pericardial effusion. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, 10(5): 542-549. doi: 10.1093/ehjacc/zuaa023.
Tracy, S., Dries, R., Yuan, G. C. (2019). RESCUE: imputing dropout events in single-cell RNA-sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(388). doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-2977-0.
Talbot, O., Ocampo, A., Tracy, S., Mosesso, K., Rahman, A., and Pagano, M. (2016). StatStart 2015. ASA: The Statistics Teacher Network, 87: 4-8.
† Equal contribution
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Automated baseline fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography imaging and high BCL2 expression provide orthogonal prognostic value in predicting high-risk de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients. Poster presentation at the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, December 5, 2020.
OptBand: optimal confidence bands for functions to characterize time-to-event distributions. Contributed-paper presentation at the ENAR Spring Meeting 2018, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA, March 28, 2018.
An iterative method for imputing dropout values in scRNA-seq data. Poster presentation at the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology Retreat, Simmons College, Boston, MA, January 18, 2018.
SOFTWARE
Highly proficient: R, MATLAB, Stata
Some experience: Python, SAS, C++
R package optband, CRAN and GitHub
Minimal-area confidence bands for time-to-event data
R package rescue, CRAN and GitHub
Imputing dropout values in single-cell RNA-sequencing data
R package sera, GitHub
Integrating seqFISH and scRNA-seq data for spatial inference
SELECTED INVOLVEMENT
San Francisco - Marin Food Bank, 2020 - present
Genentech Science Garage, 2019 - 2020
Roxbury Prep Mission Hill Tutoring, 2015 - 2017
Global Water Brigades Honduras, 2014
UC San Diego Educational Studies Department, 2013