Department of
Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21205
Office: E3535
Phone: (410) 955-2468
Fax: (410) 955-0958
URL: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2003–2005
- Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
- M.S. Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
- B.S. Applied Mathematics, Yale University, 1999
Experience
- Department of
Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health
Professor, 2016–present
Associate Professor, 2010–2016
Assistant Professor, 2005–2010
Director, Training Program in Environmental Biostatistics, 2012–2015
Co-Director, Data Management and Statistics Core, Johns Hopkins Children's Center for Asthma in the Urban Environment, 2010–present
Director, Data Management Core, Johns Hopkins Particulate Matter Research Center, 2008–2010 - Department of
Statistics, UCLA
Graduate Student Researcher, 2000–2003 - Logicon
INRI/Northrop Grumman
Software Engineer — UnderSea Warfare Systems and Cartography, 1998 (summer) - KenCast, Inc.
Software Engineer, 1997, 1999 (summer)
Honors and Awards
- APHA Mortimer Spiegelman Award, 2016
- NIH R21: Extreme heat and health: Characterizing vulnerability in a changing climate (2011–2013)
- NIH R01: Statistical methods for complex environmental health data (2011–2015)
- Lead author of NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month, July 2008
- Second author of NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month, December 2007
- Lead author of #1 most cited paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A for 2006–2007
- Faculty Innovation Fund Award, JHSPH, 2006
- UCLA Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award, 2003
- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2002
- Winner, ASA Student Paper Competition in Statistical Computing and Graphics, 2002
- Teaching Assistant of the Year, UCLA Department of Statistics, 2000
Publications
If you cannot obtain a copy of an article (for example, if you do not have a subscription), please send me an email.
For a complete listing of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
Books
Please see my Books page.
Software
- weathermetrics: Functions to calculate dew point temperature, relative humidity, and heat index and to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit. All functions are based on equations and algorithms used by the United States National Weather Service.
- mvtsplot: A function for
plotting multivariate time series data
[git repository] - cacher: Tools
for caching and distributing statistical analyses in R
[git repository] - SRPM: A package development and management system for distributed reproducible research
- NMMAPSdata: Daily mortality, air pollution, and weather data from the National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study.
- NMMAPSlite: NMMAPS data made available via 'stashR' databases
- filehash: A
file-based hash table for R
[git repository] - filehashSQLite: Filehash databases using the SQLite database backend
- cacheSweave:
Caching computations in Sweave
[git repository | Supported in Sweave.sh] - stashR: A Set of Tools for Administering SHared Repositories
- gpclib: An R
package for clipping complex polygons
[git repository] - simpleboot:
Simple bootstrapping routines in R
[git repository] - ptproc: An R package for analyzing multi-dimensional point process models.
Workshops and Short Courses
- Methods for Reproducible Research, University of Minnesota, 2013
- Methods for Reproducible Research, ENAR, 2012
- A Crash Course In R, ISEE (Barcelona), September 2011
- Advanced R Programming, JHU Center for Computational Genomics, May 2010
- Methods for Reproducible Research, ENAR, San Antonio, March 2009
- Integrating Computing into the Statistics Curriculum, UC Berkeley, July 2008
- NSF Computing in Statistics Workshop, MSRI, May 2007
- Summer Program in
Statistics for Undergraduates, UCLA, June 2006
Short course on statistical analysis of air pollution and health data
Editorial Activities
- Associate Editor, BMC Public Health, 2010–2013
- Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 2010–2014
- Associate Editor for Reproducible Research, Biostatistics, 2006–2017
- Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Software, 2004–2006
- Reviewer for: Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, Biostatistics, Statistical Modelling, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Environmental Health Perspectives, Risk Analysis, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, American Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Springer (book proposals), Chapman & Hall
Teaching and Service
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health- Primary instructor
- Methods in Biostatistics III and IV
- Introduction to Statistical Computing
- Advanced Statistical Computing
- Advanced Data Science
- Co-instructor
- Winter Institute Data Analysis Workshop I & II, 2005
- Public Health Perspectives
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Member of Biostatistics Information Technology committee
Research Interests
- Environmental biostatistics; health effects of air pollution
- Point processes — residual analysis methodology, conditional intensity modeling, estimation via likelihood methods, assessment of multi-dimensional models, applications to wildfire prediction
- Statistical computing; software engineering; reproducible research; data structures
Computer Interests
- Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, Mac OS X
- Languages and Statistical Packages: C, Perl, R, XLisp-Stat
- Other: GNU development tools (Emacs, gcc, etc.), LaTeX
Other
- Memberships: American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society (ENAR), Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, R Foundation for Statistical Computing
- Citizenship: United States
- Languages: English (native), some Chinese and Spanish
- Personal Interests: Violin