Hicks is an associate professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biostatistics. As an applied statistician at the intersection of genomics and biomedical data science, she develops computational methods using statistics and machine learning for the analysis of high-throughput genomic experiments. She has considerable expertise in the analysis of single-cell and spatial omics with a goal to better understand the molecular mechanisms of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Hicks also founded R-Ladies Baltimore to support women in programming.
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