Melinda Higgins
Melinda Higgins, Ph.D., is Professor, research track, and the Director of the Biostatistics and Data Management team in the Office of Nursing Research at Emory University.
Professor Higgins is a co-founder of R-Ladies Atlanta, outgoing chair for the Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences section of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and former Vice Chair of District 5 for the American Statistical Association Council of Chapters. She has also taught R and R Markdown at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pharmaceutical companies, pre-conference workshops, and local R users groups. Higgins is also the author and instructor of two Ph.D. level courses at Emory: Quantitative Analysis of Clinical Data and Big Data Analytics for Healthcare.
Higgins also has over 30+ years experience performing and managing research in wide-ranging applications, including healthcare, bio-behavioral phenotype characterization and modeling, statistical support for clinical trials, aircraft sensor systems, remote sensing, multispectral/hyperspectral processing, signatures intelligence, knowledge decision support systems, geospatial information systems, sensors and image fusion, and target recognition. She has been at Emory University since 2007 and was previously a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Program Manager for the $17M National Guard Bureau Technology Consortium.