Rob Scharpf

In addition to his role at Delfi Diagnostics, Rob is Associate Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He received his PhD in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and is an expert in developing statistical methods and software for high-throughput genomic data analysis, including machine-learning models for cancer detection and Bayesian approaches for modeling batch effects, data integration, and cancer risk. He was the recipient of the Director’s Award for Teaching from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia and the Margaret Merrell Award for Outstanding Research as a PhD student. His publications have appeared in leading scientific, statistical, and epidemiologic journals, including Nature and the Journal of the American Statistical Association.