Faculty Profile

Irina Gaynanova

Irina Gaynanova, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Dr. Gaynanova’s research focuses on the development of statistical methods for analysis of modern high-dimensional biomedical data. Her methodological interests are in data integration, machine learning and high-dimensional statistics, motivated by challenges arising in analyses of multi-omics data (e.g., RNASeq, metabolomics, micribiome)  and data from wearable devices (continuous glucose monitors, ambulatory blood pressure monitors, activity trackers). Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and recognized with a David P. Byar Young Investigator Award and an NSF CAREER Award.

  • PhD, Statistics, Cornell University, 2015
  • MS, Statistics, Cornell University, 2013
  • Diploma (MS equivalent), Applied Math and Computer Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2009

Methodological: high-dimensional data analysis (with a focus on sparsity regularization), multivariate analysis (dimension reduction methods such as PCA, CCA, and LDA), data integration/multi-view data analysis, statistical/machine learning, computational statistics

Application interests: multi-omics data, microbiome data, data from wearable devices (continuous glucose monitors, ambulatory blood pressure monitors, activity trackers)

Research Projects
  • Developing innovative statistical methods for integration of high-dimensional disparate data sources
  • Developing new machine learning methods for extracting features from digital health data

Zhang Y and Gaynanova I (2022). Joint association and classification analysis of multi-view data. Biometrics, Vol. 78, No. 4, 1614-1625.

Broll S, Urbanek J, Buchanan D, Chun E, Muschelli J, Punjabi N and Gaynanova I (2021). Interpreting blood glucose data with R package iglu. PLoS One, Vol. 16, No. 4, e0248560.

Yoon G, Carroll R and Gaynanova I (2020). Sparse semiparametric canonical correlation analysis for data of mixed types. Biometrika, Vol. 107, No. 3, 609-625

Gaynanova I and Li G (2019). Structural learning and integrative decomposition of multi-view data. Biometrics, Vol. 75, No. 4, 1121-1132.

Yoon G, Gaynanova I and Müller C (2019). Microbial networks in SPRING - Semi-parametric rank-based correlation and partial correlation estimation for quantitative microbiome data. Frontiers in Genetics, Vol. 10, 516.

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