Faculty Expert Profile

Stephanie Hicks is an applied statistician working at the intersection of genomics and biomedical data science. Her research addresses statistical and computational challenges in single-cell genomics, epigenomics, and spatial transcriptomics leading to an improved understanding of human health and disease. Specifically, she develops computational methods using statistics and machine learning. She implements these methods in open-source software for the analysis of biomedical data.

She is also a co-host of the The Corresponding Author podcast, member of the Editorial Board for Genome Biology, an Associate Editor for Reproducibility at the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and co-founder of R-Ladies Baltimore.