Forrest W. Crawford is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics & Data Science, Operations, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He is affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, the Institute for Network Science, the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, and the Public Health Modeling Concentration. His research focuses on mathematical and statistical problems related to discrete structures and stochastic processes in epidemiology, public health, biomedicine, and social science. He received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2016.

What do you do with data science?

My work is focused on mathematical and statistical problems related to discrete structures and stochastic processes in epidemiology, public health, biomedicine, and social science. My methodological interests include networks and graphs, stochastic processes, semi-parametric inference, causal inference, computational statistics, optimization, randomized trials, and algorithms. My work has practical applications in a wide variety of fields, including public health, infectious disease epidemiology, sociology, evolution and ecology, and management.