Faculty Profile
Saunak Sen, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics
UCSF Box 0560
185 Berry Street, Lobby 4, Suite 5700
San Francisco, CA 94107-1762
Dr. Sen obtained his PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago and after postdoctoral stints at Stanford University and the Jackson Laboratory, Maine, joined UCSF in 2002.
Principal Research Interests
- Genetic analysis of complex traits in model systems
- Statistical genetics/genomics
- Bayesian statistics
- Statistical computing
Principal Teaching Activities
- Instructor, Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology II (Epi 219)
- Section leader, Designing Clinical Research
- Advising Fellows in the Division of Geriatrics
Selected University & Public Service
- Biostatistics Grant Development Assistance Program
- Division of Biostatistics Distributed Computing Cluster
Publications
Sen S, Satagopan JM, and Churchill GA. Quantitative trait locus study design from an information perspective. Genetics 170:447-464, 2005.
Sen S and Churchill GA. A statistical framework for quantitative trait mapping. Genetics 159:371-387, 2001.
Broman KW, Wu H, Sen S, Churchill GA. R/qtl: QTL mapping in experimental crosses. Bioinformatics 19:889-890, 2003.
Beamer WG, Shultz KL, Donahue LR, Churchill GA, Sen S, Wergedal JR, Baylink DJ, and Rosen CJ. Quantitative trait loci for femoral and lumbar vertebral bone mineral density in C57BL/6J and C3H/HeJ inbred strains of mice. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 16:1195-1206, 2001.
Ormoneit D and Sen S. Kernel-based reinforcement learning. Machine Learning 49:161-178, 2002.