MEC Officers

Name  Subcommittee/Serving until

Shen, Judong
Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences
Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co. Inc.
Mailstop: RY34-B3017
126 East Lincoln Ave, Rahway, NJ 07065
judong.shen@merck.com

Chair
Jul 2025

Ma, Siyuan
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2525 West End Avenue
Suite 1100, Room 11126
Nashville, TN 37203
siyuan.ma@vumc.org

Junior Co-chair
Dec 2025

Safo, Sandra
Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science
University of Minnesota
University Office Plaza, Ste 200, Room 226
2221 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
ssafo@umn.edu

Mentoring (Chair)
Dec 2024

Xie, Jichun
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Department of Mathematics
Duke University
2424 Erwin Road, Hock Plaza 10048
Durham, NC 27705
jichun.xie@duke.edu

Mentoring
Jul 2026

Gao, Guimin
Department of Public Health Sciences
The University of Chicago
Biological Sciences
5841 S. Maryland Ave, Room R321, MC2000
Chicago, IL  60637
guiming@uchicago.edu

Mentoring
Dec 2025

Chatterjee, Suvo
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health-Bloomington
1025 E. Seventh Street, Suite 111
Bloomington, IN 47405-7109
suvchat@iu.edu

Webinar
Dec 2025

Chekouo, Thierry
Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science
University of Minnesota
University Office Plaza, Ste 200, Room 213
2221 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
tchekouo@umn.edu

Webinar
Jul 2026

Shen, Kui
Bayer
100 Bayer Blvd
Whippany, NJ 07981
kuishen@gmail.com

Media
Jul 2026

Jiang, Yuchao
Department of Statistics and Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
Texas A&M University, 3143 TAMU
College Station, TX 77845
yuchaoj@email.unc.edu

Media
Dec 2024

Mallick, Himel
Department of Population Health Sciences
Cornell University
402 E 67th Street
New York, NY 10065
him4004@med.cornell.edu

Media
Dec 2025

Liu, Yongqi
Department of Statistics
College of Arts and Sciences
The Ohio State University
Cockins Hall, 1958 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
liu.8224@osu.edu

Student (Chair)
Dec 2024

Ameyi, Justice
Division of Biostatistics
College of Public Health
The Ohio State University
1841 Neil Ave Room 241 Cunz Hall
Columbus, OH 43210 
ameyi.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Student
Dec 2025

Dutta, Diptavo
National Cancer Institute
Shady Grove Campus
9609 Medical Center Drive, 7E236
Rockville, MD 20850
diptavo.dutta@nih.gov

Student
Dec 2025

Li, Danyang
Department of Biostatistics
University of Pittsburgh
130 De Soto St
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
DAL274@pitt.edu

Student
Dec 2025

Temple, Seth
University of Washington
Department of Statistics
Padelford Hall B-222
Seattle, WA 98195
sdtemple@uw.edu

Student
Dec 2025