Layla Parast

Layla Mosama Parast Bartroff is an American biostatistician whose research involves surrogate markers, predictive modelling, survival analysis, causal inference, and health care quality. Formerly a senior statistician and co-director of the Center for Causal Inference at the RAND Corporation, she is an associate professor of statistics and data sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][2] She is also a frequent newspaper and news magazine editorial writer on issues related to public health, supported as a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.[3]

Early life and education

Parast grew up in Texas,[2] as the daughter of two academics: her mother, Ann Roberts Parast, is a retired English professor at Texas State Technical College, and her father, Rudy M. Parast, is a mathematician affiliated with the Marine Military Academy. After undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Parast earned a master's degree in statistics at Stanford University.[4]

Her interest in biostatistics began with an epidemiology course taken during her master's program at Stanford.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics at Harvard University in 2012.[1] Her dissertation, Landmark Prediction of Survival, was supervised by Tianxi Cai.[5][6]

Career

After working at the RAND Corporation as a senior statistician and co-director of the Center for Causal Inference, Parast returned to the University of Texas at Austin as a faculty member, joining the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences as an associate professor in 2022.[1][2][7] Her husband, Jay Bartroff,[4] joined the same department at the same time, moving there from the University of Southern California.[2][7]

Recognition

Parast was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in the 2023 class of fellows.[8]

References
  1. "Layla Parast", Directory, University of Texas at Austin Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, retrieved 2023-10-15
  2. Layla Parast Aims to Improve Healthcare Using Biostatistics, University of Texas at Austin Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, April 5, 2022, retrieved 2023-10-15
  3. Two Cohorts Announced for Prestigious Public Voices Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, August 10, 2022, retrieved 2023-10-15
  4. "Layla Parast, Jay Bartroff", Weddings, The New York Times, October 23, 2011, retrieved 2023-10-15
  5. Parast, Layla Mosama (2012), Landmark Prediction of Survival, Harvard University
  6. Layla Parast at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Robards-Forbes, Esther (January 28, 2022), Meet the Scientists Who are New to the Faculty this Spring, University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences, retrieved 2023-10-15
  8. 2023 ASA Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-10-15
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