University of Minnesota (UMN) School of Public Health (SPH) Assistant Professor Jared Huling is a recipient of the prestigious McKnight Presidential Fellow Award, an honor that recognizes mid-career UMN faculty who have demonstrated exceptional scholarly accomplishments and are recommended for tenure in a given year.
Dr. Huling’s research focuses on the development and implementation of high-quality, innovative statistical methods for rigorous analysis of complex observational health data. He develops methods tailored for specific health applications and also develops general statistical methods that have broad applicability across a variety of scientific domains. His methods integrate statistics, machine learning, and advanced computational techniques to solve challenging real-world problems using the increasingly complex data sources available today. In particular, his work focuses on the development of statistical approaches to better understand causal relationships from observational data, statistical methodology to optimally match individual patients with the right treatments, and statistical machine learning approaches for accurate and interpretable risk prediction using high-dimensional, heterogeneous data with the aim of improving patient health outcomes.
Recipients of the McKnight Presidential Fellows award are recommended by their college dean and chosen at the discretion of the UMN executive vice president and provost based on a range of factors, including excellence in research and scholarship, leadership, potential to build top-tier programs, and the ability to advance University of Minnesota priorities.
“Since joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Jared Huling has consistently produced high-impact statistical methods research and has shown tremendous potential for continuing impact as a scholar,” says SPH Dean and Mayo Chair in Public Health Melinda Pettigrew. “ It is an honor to have him as a colleague at the School of Public Health, and I am thrilled that he has been recognized with this award.”
The McKnight Presidential Fellow Award is supported by an endowment from the McKnight Foundation and matching funds from the University’s Permanent University Fund.
Huling and fellow recipients will be celebrated at the McKnight Awards Dinner on May 6.
