Brian Caffo, Ph.D.

Professor, Johns Hopkins University


Dr. Brian Caffo is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the University of Florida, Department of Statistics, in 2001. He has worked in statistical computing, statistical modeling, computational statistics, multivariate and decomposition methods, and statistics in neuroimaging and neuroscience. He led teams that won the ADHD 200 Prediction Competition. He co-directs the SMART statistical group. With other faculty at Johns Hopkins, he created and co-directs the Coursera Data Science Specialization, a ten-course specialization on statistical data analysis. He also co-directs the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab, a group dedicated to open educational innovation and data science. He is the former director of the Biostatistics graduate programs and admissions committees. He is the co-director of the Johns Hopkins High Performance Computing Exchange supercomputing service center, former president of the Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty Senate, and Director of Academic Programs and Education for the Data Science and AI Institute.

Funded Research

These projects were made possible from Cure Alzheimer's Fund support.