A/Prof Bibhas Chakraborty is a tenured Associate Professor at the Centre for Quantitative Medicine and the Signature Program in Health Services & Systems Research at Duke-NUS Medical School, an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore (NUS), and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, USA. He is also affiliated to the Centre for Aging Research and Education (CARE) and the Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Program at Duke-NUS, as well as the Institute for Applied Learning Sciences and Educational Technology (ALSET) at NUS. Previously (2014-18), he served as the Director of the Centre for Quantitative Medicine, and as the Founding Co-director of the PhD program in Quantitative Biology and Medicine (QBM) at Duke-NUS.
Bibhas completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees respectively from the University of Calcutta and the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India. Subsequently he completed a PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, under the supervision of Prof Susan Murphy in 2009. He then worked as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA (2009-13), prior to his move to Singapore.
He is the recipient of the prestigious Calderone Research Prize for Junior Faculty from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in 2011, and also the Young Researcher Award from the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) in 2017. He has served as the Principal Investigator of research grants funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore, as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, in addition to being a co-investigator on numerous grants from various funding agencies. Over the years, he has also served as a scientific reviewer for several funding agencies, including the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) in Singapore, the NIH and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) in the United States, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and the French National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences, and also as an Expert Statistical Resource to the Institutional Review Board of the Singapore Health Services (SingHealth).
Research Interest
His primary research interest lies in developing novel statistical methods and associated study designs to facilitate data-driven precision health in a time-varying setting, often known as dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) or adaptive interventions. Once developed, these treatment regimens can serve as decision support systems for clinicians and other healthcare providers, and are particularly appealing in the context of chronic disease management. He has authored the first textbook on this cutting-edge topic. He also has expertise in modern clinical trial designs, including sequential multiple-assignment randomized trial (SMART) design for dynamic treatment regimens, various kinds of adaptive design, as well as full and fractional factorial designs in the context of multi-phase optimization strategy (MOST) for developing multi-component (behavioural) interventions. More recently, he has got deeply interested into the domain of mobile/digital health, in particular the development of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) and the micro-randomized trials (MRTs), and also the analysis of big electronic health records data. The above research areas employ tools from artificial intelligence, including reinforcement learning and other forms of machine learning. In 2019, he has organized a mobile health workshop funded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore.
He has served as the Principal Investigator of research grants funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore, as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, in addition to being a co-investigator on numerous grants from various funding agencies. Here is the link to his Google Scholar citation page.
Research Team
Kenny Jing Xu
Asst Professor
Email: kenny.xu@duke-nus.edu.sg
Yan Xiaoxi
PhD Student
Email: xiaoxi.yan@u.duke.nus.edu
Xie Feng
PhD Student
Email: xief@u.duke.nus.edu