Brian Hobbs is a PhD student in the Division of Biostatistics
and advisee
of Dr. Brad Carlin. His research interests
center on developing Bayes methods for the design and analysis of clinical trial
data. The paper from Brian's Masters project,
"Practical Bayesian design and analysis for
drug and device clinical trials," appeared in the Journal of
Biopharmaceutical
Statistics . During the summer of 2007 Brian worked for
Takeda Global Research & Development
as an intern statistician. He also worked as an intern under Dr. Daniel
Sargent in the Cancer Center
Statistics department at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN during the summer of 2006.
Brian also has three years of experience as a research assistant under Dr. Jim Neaton working with the statistical team
for large (N>6000) international, randomized, multi-center trials comparing strategies
for the management of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients (Community Programs for
Clinical Research on AIDS). (Brian's
C.V. in .pdf format)
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human
thought
which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the
objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by
taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.
- Albert Einstein
David Benjamin Hobbs: Oct. 11th, 1987 - Nov. 25th, 2007
