Daniel Gillen

Daniel Gillen is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He also has appointments as a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in the School of Medicine.

Academic distinctions include Fellow of the American Statistical Association (elected 2016); Dean’s Award for Mid-Career Research Excellence, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2015); Dean’s Award for Service Excellence, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2012); Excellence in Mentoring Award, UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (2011); Donovan J. Thompson Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington (2000); and NIH Cancer-Epidemiology-Biostatistics Training Grant (1999–2003).

Gillen’s research focuses on the development of statistical methods for the analysis of survival time data and group sequential methods for the design and monitoring of clinical trials. In particular, Gillen’s interests include the development of methods that robustly incorporate time-varying effects on survival in the settings of observational cohort studies and clinical trials. His primary areas of application are in nephrology and cancer. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in biostatistics.