Published 20 October 2017
Saumyadipta Pyne, PhD, joined the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory on October 1, 2017, as scientific director and will also serve as an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics, both at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Pyne was previously a professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad. He formerly held the prestigious post of P.C. Mahalanobis Chair and professor and head of bioinformatics in the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. He is a former senior research fellow of the Indian Statistical Institute. Pyne is the founding chairman of the Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group on Big Data Analytics and leads the Health Analytics Network.
Pyne received his doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, working simultaneously in the departments of computer science, and molecular genetics and microbiology. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard then worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. His research interests include big data in life sciences and health informatics, computational statistics, and high-dimensional data modeling. He is actively engaged in promoting big data research and training activities.