Elizabeth Purdom

Professor
Department of Statistics
Center for Computational Biology
UC, Berkeley

Contact

Address:
Department of Statistics
3385 Gateway Building
2300 Hearst Ave
Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
Fax: 510-642-7892
Email: epurdom@stat.berkeley.edu

About me

I am a faculty of UC, Berkeley in the Department of Statistics and the Center for Computational Biology. I received my PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2006 under the guidance of Susan Holmes for work on multivariate kernel methods in the analysis of graphical structures found in biology, such as gene networks or phylogenetic trees. I was then awarded a NSF Bioinformatics post-doctoral fellowship where I researched methods for transcriptomic platforms and cancer genomics under the guidance of Terry Speed in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. In 2009, I became a faculty member in the Department of Statistics of UC Berkeley.

Research in the my group focuses on developing and applying methodologies to solve statistical problems that arise in ’omics applications, particularly in the area of single-cell and spatial transcriptomic studies.