Welcome to my Research Website.

Here you will find information regarding research projects that I am or I have been working on. Below you can find a short description for each of them. The links at your left take you to the webpage for each project.
More information about me can be found in my Personal Home Page.

Texas Children's Hospital Project
(Fall 2007 - Spring 2008)

 In this project I worked for Dr. Rudy Guerra and Dra. Marina Vannucci from Rice University and Dr. Chris Tsz-Kwong Man from the Texas Children's Hospital. This project had  to do with  preprocessing and analysis of Mass Spectra data.

Dose Individualization for Anti-Cancer Therapy 
(Summer Internship,  2007)

I worked for  Dr. Rosner who is Professor of Biostatistics at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Rosner and other collaborators  developed a bayesian population pharmacokinetic model  that allows them to compute the optimal dose for a given patient of the anti-cancer drug Busulfan so that a certain target response is achieved. One of the main features of this approach is that borrow strength from two related previous studies by building an ANOVA like structure over the random effects distributions. The prior distribution in this model is taken as a dependant dirichlet processes (DDP). Under this project I extended the model so that continuous and discrete covariates are considered.  My activities also included  the translation of the code from Splus into C because the time to get simulations form the  posterior distribution was prohibitive under the former.