PhD
Alumni Distinguished Professor, Biostatistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biostatistics
Director, Laboratory for Innovative Clinical Trials
Director, Cancer Genomics Training Grant
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Therapeutics Research Program
Area of Interest
Joseph G. Ibrahim, PhD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, is principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for developing statistical methodology related to cancer and genomics research.
Ibrahim is also the Director of the Biostatistics Core at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ibrahim’s areas of research focus are Bayesian inference, clinical trials, missing data problems, and cancer genomics. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota in 1988. With more than 37 years of experience working in cancer clinical trials, Ibrahim directs the UNC Laboratory for Innovative Clinical Trials (LICT).
Ibrahim is also the director of graduate studies in the Department of Biostatistics at the Gillings School, as well as the program director of the cancer genomics training grant in the same department. He has served on several national committees and study sections, including as the section chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association and the Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) NIH Study Section. He has also served as the associate editor for several statistical journals, and was the editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Society (JASA) – Application and Case Studies from 2013 to 2015. Dr. Ibrahim has published more than 390 research papers, mostly in the top statistical journals. He also has published two advanced graduate-level books on Bayesian survival analysis and Monte Carlo methods in Bayesian computation. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS).
Awards and Honors
- ASA Samuel S. Wilks Award for outstanding research contributions to statistics, 2024
- Gillings School of Global Public Health McGavran Award for excellence in teaching, 2024
- ASA SPAIG Award for outstanding partnerships between academe, industry, and government organizations, 2023
- Elected Fellow, International Society of Bayesian Analysis, 2020
- Alumni Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006
- Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000
- Elected Fellow, International Statistical Institute, 2000
- Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1999
- Elected Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1989
