Stephanie Hicks

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Stephanie Hicks
Born
Stephanie Carinne Hicks
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Louisiana State University (B.S., Mathematics, 2007)
Rice University (M.A., Statistics, 2012; Ph.D., Statistics, 2013)
Known forOpen-source software for genomics, epigenomics, spatial transcriptomics; single-cell sequencing applications
AwardsMyrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship (2023) Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics, Data science
Institutions Johns Hopkins University
Thesis Probabilistic Models for Genetic and Genomic Data with Missing Information  (2013)
Doctoral advisor Marek Kimmel, Sharon Plon
Website https://www.stephaniehicks.com/

Stephanie Carinne Hicks is an American biostatistician and data scientist whose research involves the development of open-source software for genomics, epigenomics, and spatial transcriptomics, [1] and applications involving single-cell sequencing. [2] She is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and with the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering. [3] [4]

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Education and career

Hicks majored in mathematics at Louisiana State University, graduating in 2007. She continued her studies in statistics at Rice University, where she received a master's degree in 2012 and completed her Ph.D. in 2013. [3] [4] Her dissertation, Probabilistic Models for Genetic and Genomic Data with Missing Information, was jointly supervised by Marek Kimmel and Sharon Plon. [5]

Next, she was a postdoctoral researcher in biostatistics and data science from 2013 to 2018, in the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [4] Her work there was supervised by Rafael Irizarry. [2] She became a faculty member at Johns Hopkins in 2018. [6]

At Johns Hopkins, she founded R-Ladies Baltimore, a support group for women statistical programmers, in 2018. [7]

Recognition

Hicks was the 2023 recipient of the Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [1] She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2025. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Stephanie Hicks recipient of the 2023 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship!, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, August 8, 2023, retrieved 2025-08-29
  2. 1 2 "Interview with Stephanie Hicks", Simply Statistics, February 18, 2019, retrieved 2025-08-29
  3. 1 2 "Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD, MA", Faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, retrieved 2025-08-29
  4. 1 2 3 "Stephanie Hicks, PhD", Faculty, Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering, retrieved 2025-08-29
  5. ↑ Hicks, Stephanie Carinne (2013), Probabilistic Models for Genetic and Genomic Data with Missing Information (Ph.D. thesis), Rice University, hdl:1911/71965, ProQuest   3577522
  6. ↑ Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Hicks, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, January 21, 2025, retrieved 2025-08-29
  7. ↑ Buchler, Emily Gaines (Winter 2023), "R-Ladies Baltimore provides a space for women programmers", Johns Hopkins Magazine, retrieved 2025-08-29
  8. ↑ "Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association", News, Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering, May 6, 2025, retrieved 2025-08-29
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