Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics. Dr. Shen received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health at University of Pittsburgh in 2004 and jointed IU in the same year. Dr. Shen’s Ph.D. research focuses on statistical methodological development for analyzing longitudinal medical data with potentially non-ignorable missing-values. Dr. Shen has also pioneered in developing statistical tools to analyze large scale proteomics data and to integrate various types of genomics data since he joined IU, which has become the two major research focuses for now. Specifically, Dr. Shen is interested in statistical methods to (1) improve the accuracy of the protein identification/quantification and reliability of the FDR estimate in tandem mass spectrometry and (2) integrate gene expression, transcription-factor-DNA binding, epigenetics and other information to infer the mechanism of transcriptional regulation. Both aspects are critical for studies of diseases (e.g. cancer) using genomics and proteomics techniques.