Stephanie Hicks, PhD

Research Interests

Dr. Stephanie Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins. She also has affiliations with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Center for Computational Biology, the Department of Genetic Medicine, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is an expert in developing scalable computational methods and open-source software for biomedical data analysis, in particular single-cell and spatial transcriptomics genomics data, leading to an improved understanding of human health and disease.

Titles

• Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
• Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Affiliated Centers & Institutes

• Center for Computational Biology
• Center for Imaging Science

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biostatistics and Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2013-2018
• PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2013
• MA, Statistics, Rice University, 2012
• BS, Mathematics, Louisiana State University, 2007

Recent Highlights

May 6, 2025

Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association

Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.

• March 5, 2024
  Stephanie Hicks invited to NAM Emerging Leaders Forum
  The invitation-only forum is an annual assembly of outstanding early- and mid-career professionals with exceptional professional promise, achievement, and leadership in biomedical science, health, health care and related fields.