Stephanie Hicks PhD, MA

Stephanie Hicks is an applied statistician working at the intersection of genomics and biomedical data science. Her research addresses 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.

Hicks's research philosophy is problem-forward: she develops computational methods and software that are motivated by concrete problems, often with real-world, messy data. This philosophy permeates into her contributions to statistics and data science education, and service to the profession including being an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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