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= Stephanie Hicks = Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a member of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab and the Center for Computational Biology. She is also co-founder of R-Ladies Baltimore. Her work focuses on the intersection of data science and health by developing statistical methods, tools, and software for the analysis of genomics data. She has notable contributions to the analysis of high-throughput and single cell methods.

Early life and education
Dr. Hicks is from north Louisiana. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University.

She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Statistics at Rice University, advised by Marek Kimmel (Ph.D.) and Sharon Plon (M.D., Ph.D.). Her doctoral thesis focused on developing statistical methods for investigating the consequences of mutations in the genomes of pediatric cancer patients.

She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health under the supervision of Rafael Irizarry. Her postdoctoral work was awarded a K99/R00 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to develop statistical methods for the normalization and quantification of single-cell RNA-Sequencing data.

Career and Research
Dr. Hicks' research addresses statistical challenges in epigenomics, functional genomics, and single-cell genomics. She has developed methods to address technical variability in single-cell data, methods for fast and scalable methods for clustering single-cell data , and open-source, single-cell workflows.

She actively contributes software packages to the R/Bioconductor project and was involved in a project to develop Collaborative Computational Tools partnering with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Human Cell Atlas.

She is also involved in data science education, educational mentoring, and outreach efforts to expand and diversify the community of data scientists.

Honors and Awards

 * American Statistical Association, COPSS Leadership Academy Award (2021).
 * American Statistical Association, Teaching in the Health Sciences Young Investigator Award (2020).
 * Bloomberg American Health Initiative High Impact Project Award (2019).
 * Two papers in top ten most cited publications in the Biostatistics journal (2019).
 * Phi Beta Kappa Society (2007).

Personal life
Dr. Hicks has a husband, Chris, and three children.