Directory
This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!
Dani Lavage
Biography
Degree and Year Started: Master’s Student – 2023 Cohort
Research Advisor: Dr. Greg Cooper
Education: BS Mathematics (2021) Penn State University, MS Applied Statistics (2023) University of Pittsburgh
Research: Causal discovery and inference techniques. Currently working on feature reduction / feature engineering as a component of a larger causal inference pipeline
Hobbies: running and biking or thinking about running and biking when my body hurts too much from too much running and biking
What I like about Pittsburgh: All the bike lanes and trails to run on.