Roger D. Peng, PhD

Dr. Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as a Co-Editor of the Simply Statistics blog. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is recognized for his research in air pollution, health risk assessment, and statistical methods for environmental data. In 2016, he received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, honoring his significant contributions to health statistics. Dr. Peng developed the Statistical Programming course at Johns Hopkins to equip students with essential computational tools for data analysis. Additionally, he is a national leader in promoting reproducible research practices and serves as the Reproducible Research editor for the journal Biostatistics. His interdisciplinary research has been published in prestigious journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. He has authored over a dozen software packages that implement statistical methods for environmental studies and reproducible research, and he regularly conducts workshops and tutorials on statistical computing and data analysis.