We are pleased to announce the promotion of Lorin Crawford, PhD to the position of Associate Professor of Biostatistics, with tenure. Professor Crawford joined the Department of Biostatistics in 2017. He received his PhD in 2017 from the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. He also received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, from Clark Atlanta University. While at Brown Professor Crawford has been named by the online magazine, The Root among the 100 most influential and prominent members of the African American community in 2019. Also, in 2019, Professor Crawford was named one of the Sloan Research Fellows. In 2020, Professor Crawford received the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

While on leave from Brown, Professor Crawford is, currently, collaborating as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He is affiliated with the Center for Statistical Sciences and the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. His scientific research interests involve the development of novel and efficient computational methodologies to address complex problems in statistical genetics, cancer pharmacology, and radiomics (e.g., cancer imaging). The central aim of Professor Crawford's research program is to build machine learning algorithms and statistical tools that aid in the understanding of how nonlinear interactions between genetic features affect the architecture of complex traits and contribute to disease etiology. An overarching theme of the research done in the Crawford Lab group is to take modern computational approaches and develop theory that enable their interpretations to be related back to classical genomic principles.

In his free time, Professor Crawford enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, as well as playing and watching sports.