Jaya Satagopan

Jaya Mathangi Satagopan is an Indian and American biostatistician and epidemiologist whose research applies statistical genetics in understanding the genetic risk factors for cancer. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers University, a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Rutgers School of Public Health.[1]

Education and career

Satagopan received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Madras in 1988, a master's degree in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1990, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin in 1995.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Detect Polygene Loci for Complex Traits, was supervised by Brian Yandell.[3] She received a second master's degree, in science communication and public engagement, from the University of Edinburgh, in 2019.[2]

She worked as a biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City from 1995 until 2019, also holding a courtesy appointment in biostatistics at Weill Cornell Medicine from 2009 to 2019. In 2019, she moved to Rutgers University as a full professor. At Rutgers, she was appointed as interim associate dean in 2020 and as associate dean in 2021.[2]

Recognition

Satagopan was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in the 2015 class of fellows.[4] She is also a Fellow of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society,[5] elected in 2019.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Jaya Satagopan, PhD (she/her/hers)", Directory, Rutgers School of Public Health, retrieved 2026-08-17
  2. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Rutgers School of Public Health, July 2023, retrieved 2026-08-17
  3. ↑ Jaya Satagopan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2026-08-17
  5. ↑ IGES Fellows, International Genetic Epidemiology Society, retrieved 2026-08-17
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