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Statistician, Data Analyst and Biostatistician. More than 15 years of experience.

Profile Summary

A highly specialized Biostatistician/Statistician/data analyst with a proven track record in developing cutting-edge statistical frameworks for complex, high-dimensional biological data. Expert in leveraging Bayesian methodology and multi-omics data integration to drive biomarker discovery, clinical trial design, and predictive healthcare modeling.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Bayesian Statistics
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Statistical Computing
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Medical Statistics
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ Java
• ☆ Tensorflow
• ☆ R
• ☆ Clinical Trials
• ☆ Clinical Trial Design
• ☆ Clinical Data Management
• ☆ Clinical Trials Data Analysis

Services

• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Associate Professor

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

June 2025 - Present

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota

August 2022 - June 2025

Assistant Professor

University of Calgary

July 2018 - August 2022

Education

Ph.D (mathematics and Statistics)

Université de Montréal

September 2008 - January 2013

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Efficient Bayesian variable selection with reversible jump MCMC in imaging genetics: an application to schizophrenia @article{Montcho_2026, title={Efficient Bayesian variable selection with reversible jump MCMC in imaging genetics: an application to schizophrenia}, ISSN={1360-0532}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606972}, DOI={10.1080/02664763.2025.2606972}, journal={Journal of Applied Statistics}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Montcho, Djidenou and Zuanetti, Daiane A. and Chekouo, Thierry and Milan, Luis A.}, year={2026}, month=jan, pages={1–16} } . Journal of Applied Statistics.

A Bayesian Integrative Mixed Modeling Framework for Analysis of the Multi-Site Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study @article{Neher_2025, title={A Bayesian Integrative Mixed Modeling Framework for Analysis of the Multi-Site Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study}, volume={5}, ISSN={2694-1899}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26941899.2025.2600125}, DOI={10.1080/26941899.2025.2600125}, number={1}, journal={Data Science in Science}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Neher, Aidan and Stamenos, Apostolos and Fiecas, Mark and Safo, Sandra E. and Chekouo, Thierry}, year={2025}, month=dec } . Data Science in Science.

Broken adaptive ridge method for variable selection in generalized partly linear models with application to the coronary artery disease data @article{Chan_2025, title={Broken adaptive ridge method for variable selection in generalized partly linear models with application to the coronary artery disease data}, volume={17}, ISSN={2772-4158}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmds.2025.100127}, DOI={10.1016/j.jcmds.2025.100127}, journal={Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Chan, Christian and Dai, Xiaotian and Chekouo, Thierry and Long, Quan and Lu, Xuewen}, year={2025}, month=dec, pages={100127} } . Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science.

Impaired Aggrephagy, Interrupted Vesicular Trafficking, and Cellular Stress, Lead to Protein Aggregation, and Synaptic Dysfunction in Cerebellum of Children and Adults with Idiopathic Autism @article{Fatemi_2025, title={Impaired Aggrephagy, Interrupted Vesicular Trafficking, and Cellular Stress, Lead to Protein Aggregation, and Synaptic Dysfunction in Cerebellum of Children and Adults with Idiopathic Autism}, volume={24}, ISSN={1473-4230}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12311-025-01880-5}, DOI={10.1007/s12311-025-01880-5}, number={5}, journal={The Cerebellum}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Fatemi, S. Hossein and Folsom, Timothy D. and Eschenlauer, Arthur and Chekouo, Thierry}, year={2025}, month=aug } . The Cerebellum.

Autoencoder-Transformed Transcriptome Improves Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies @article{Li_2025, title={Autoencoder-Transformed Transcriptome Improves Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies}, volume={22}, ISSN={2998-4165}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcbbio.2025.3568376}, DOI={10.1109/tcbbio.2025.3568376}, number={4}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics}, publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, author={Li, Qing and Bian, Jiayi and Weeraman, Janith and Zhang, Zilong and Leung, Albert and Ding, Qi-Xuan and Chekouo, Thierry and Wu, Lang and Yan, Jun and Wu, Jingjing and Long, Quan}, year={2025}, month=jul, pages={1703–1715} } . IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Using prior-data conflict to tune Bayesian regularized regression models @article{Biziaev_2025, title={Using prior-data conflict to tune Bayesian regularized regression models}, volume={35}, ISSN={1573-1375}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11222-025-10582-1}, DOI={10.1007/s11222-025-10582-1}, number={2}, journal={Statistics and Computing}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Biziaev, Timofei and Kopciuk, Karen and Chekouo, Thierry}, year={2025}, month=feb } . Statistics and Computing.

A Bayesian hierarchical hidden Markov model for clustering and gene selection: Application to kidney cancer gene expression data @article{Chekouo_2024, title={A Bayesian hierarchical hidden Markov model for clustering and gene selection: Application to kidney cancer gene expression data}, volume={66}, ISSN={1521-4036}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202300173}, DOI={10.1002/bimj.202300173}, number={4}, journal={Biometrical Journal}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Chekouo, Thierry and Mukherjee, Himadri}, year={2024}, month=may } . Biometrical Journal.

Quantitative proteomics of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reveals an early pattern of synaptic dysmaturation in children with idiopathic autism @article{Fatemi_2024, title={Quantitative proteomics of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reveals an early pattern of synaptic dysmaturation in children with idiopathic autism}, volume={34}, ISSN={1460-2199}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae044}, DOI={10.1093/cercor/bhae044}, number={13}, journal={Cerebral Cortex}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Fatemi, S Hossein and Eschenlauer, Arthur and Aman, Justin and Folsom, Timothy D and Chekouo, Thierry}, year={2024}, month=may, pages={161–171} } . Cerebral Cortex.

A Bayesian framework for modeling COVID‐19 case numbers through longitudinal monitoring of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in wastewater @article{Dai_2024, title={A Bayesian framework for modeling COVID‐19 case numbers through longitudinal monitoring of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in wastewater}, volume={43}, ISSN={1097-0258}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.10009}, DOI={10.1002/sim.10009}, number={6}, journal={Statistics in Medicine}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dai, Xiaotian and Acosta, Nicole and Lu, Xuewen and Hubert, Casey R. J. and Lee, Jangwoo and Frankowski, Kevin and Bautista, Maria A. and Waddell, Barbara J. and Du, Kristine and McCalder, Janine and Meddings, Jon and Ruecker, Norma and Williamson, Tyler and Southern, Danielle A. and Hollman, Jordan and Achari, Gopal and Ryan, M. Cathryn and Hrudey, Steve E. and Lee, Bonita E. and Pang, Xiaoli and Clark, Rhonda G. and Parkins, Michael D. and Chekouo, Thierry}, year={2024}, month=jan, pages={1153–1169} } . Statistics in Medicine.

A statistical method for image-mediated association studies discovers genes and pathways associated with four brain disorders @article{He_2024, title={A statistical method for image-mediated association studies discovers genes and pathways associated with four brain disorders}, volume={111}, ISSN={0002-9297}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.11.006}, DOI={10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.11.006}, number={1}, journal={The American Journal of Human Genetics}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={He, Jingni and Antonyan, Lilit and Zhu, Harold and Ardila, Karen and Li, Qing and Enoma, David and Zhang, William and Liu, Andy and Chekouo, Thierry and Cao, Bo and MacDonald, M. Ethan and Arnold, Paul D. and Long, Quan}, year={2024}, month=jan, pages={48–69} } . The American Journal of Human Genetics.

A Bayesian group selection with compositional responses for analysis of radiologic tumor proportions and their genomic determinants @article{Chekouo_2023, title={A Bayesian group selection with compositional responses for analysis of radiologic tumor proportions and their genomic determinants}, volume={17}, ISSN={1932-6157}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/23-aoas1749}, DOI={10.1214/23-aoas1749}, number={4}, journal={The Annals of Applied Statistics}, publisher={Institute of Mathematical Statistics}, author={Chekouo, Thierry and Stingo, Francesco C. and Mohammed, Shariq and Rao, Arvind and Baladandayuthapani, Veerabhadran}, year={2023}, month=dec } . The Annals of Applied Statistics.

Campus node-based wastewater surveillance enables COVID-19 case localization and confirms lower SARS-CoV-2 burden relative to the surrounding community @article{Lee_2023, title={Campus node-based wastewater surveillance enables COVID-19 case localization and confirms lower SARS-CoV-2 burden relative to the surrounding community}, volume={244}, ISSN={0043-1354}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120469}, DOI={10.1016/j.watres.2023.120469}, journal={Water Research}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Lee, Jangwoo and Acosta, Nicole and Waddell, Barbara J. and Du, Kristine and Xiang, Kevin and Van Doorn, Jennifer and Low, Kashtin and Bautista, Maria A. and McCalder, Janine and Dai, Xiaotian and Lu, Xuewen and Chekouo, Thierry and Pradhan, Puja and Sedaghat, Navid and Papparis, Chloe and Buchner Beaudet, Alexander and Chen, Jianwei and Chan, Leslie and Vivas, Laura and Westlund, Paul and Bhatnagar, Srijak and Stefani, September and Visser, Gail and Cabaj, Jason and Bertazzon, Stefania and Sarabi, Shahrzad and Achari, Gopal and Clark, Rhonda G. and Hrudey, Steve E. and Lee, Bonita E. and Pang, Xiaoli and Webster, Brendan and Ghali, William Amin and Buret, Andre Gerald and Williamson, Tyler and Southern, Danielle A. and Meddings, Jon and Frankowski, Kevin and Hubert, Casey R.J. and Parkins, Michael D.}, year={2023}, month=oct, pages={120469} } . Water Research.

Thierry Chekouo, Timofei Biziaev, Michelle L. Aktary, Qinggang Wang, Parveen Bhatti, Lorraine Shack, Paula J. Robson, Karen A. Kopciuk (2023). Development and External Validation of Partial Proportional Odds Risk Prediction Models for Cancer Stage at Diagnosis among Males and Females in Canada . Cancers.

Thierry Chekouo, Xiaotian Dai, Xuewen Lu(2023). A Bayesian genomic selection approach incorporating prior feature ordering and population structures with application to coronary artery disease . Statistical Methods in Medical Research. {SAGE} Publications

Thierry Chekouo, Meng Wang, Zahinoor Ismail, Nils D. Forkert, David B. Hogan, Aravind Ganesh, Richard Camicioli, Dallas Seitz, Michael J. Borrie, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, et al.(2023). Elicited clinician knowledge did not improve dementia risk prediction in individuals with mild cognitive impairment . Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 158. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 111--118. Elsevier {BV}

Thierry Chekouo, Meng Wang, Tolulope Sajobi, Aravind Ganesh, Dallas Seitz, Nils D Forkert, Michael Borrie, Richard Camicioli, Ging‐Yuek Robin Hsiung, Mario Masellis, et al.(2023). Identifying prognostic factors of dementia in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): Are statistical models adequate? . Alzheimer's & Dementia. 19. (S8). Wiley

Thierry Chekouo, Danika Lipman, Sandra E. Safo(2023). Integrative multi-omics approach for identifying molecular signatures and pathways and deriving and validating molecular scores for COVID-19 severity and status . BMC Genomics. 24. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Thierry Chekouo, Nicole Acosta, Xiaotian Dai, Maria A. Bautista, Barbara J. Waddell, Jangwoo Lee, Kristine Du, Janine McCalder, Puja Pradhan, Chloe Papparis, et al.(2023). Wastewater-based surveillance can be used to model COVID-19-associated workforce absenteeism . Science of The Total Environment. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 165172. Elsevier {BV}

Thierry Chekouo, Xiaoming Lu, Hua Shen, Alexander R. de Leon(2023). A two‐level copula joint model for joint analysis of longitudinal and competing risks data . Statistics in Medicine. 42. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1909--1930. Wiley

Thierry Chekouo, Meng Wang, Tolulope T. Sajobi, David B. Hogan, Aravind Ganesh, Dallas P. Seitz, Nils D. Forkert, Michael J. Borrie, Richard Camicioli, Ging‐Yuek Robin Hsiung, et al.(2023). Expert elicitation of risk factors for progression to dementia in individuals with mild cognitive impairment . Alzheimer's & Dementia. Wiley

Thierry Chekouo, Nicole Acosta, Maria A. Bautista, Barbara J. Waddell, Kristine Du, Janine McCalder, Puja Pradhan, Navid Sedaghat, Chloe Papparis, Alexander Buchner Beaudet, et al.(2023). Surveillance for SARS‐CoV‐2 and its variants in wastewater of tertiary care hospitals correlates with increasing case burden and outbreaks . Journal of Medical Virology. 95. (2). Wiley

Thierry Chekouo, Meng Wang, Matthew Greenberg, Nils D. Forkert, Gabriel Afriyie, Zahinoor Ismail, Eric E. Smith, Tolulope T. Sajobi(2022). Dementia risk prediction in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: a comparison of Cox regression and machine learning models . BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Thierry Chekouo, Xiaotian Dai, David Champredon, Aamir Fazil, Chand S. Mangat, Shelley W. Peterson, Edgard M. Mejia, Xuewen Lu(2022). Statistical framework to support the epidemiological interpretation of SARS-CoV-2 concentration in municipal wastewater . Scientific Reports. 12. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Thierry Chekouo, Nicole Acosta, María A. Bautista, Barbara J. Waddell, Janine McCalder, Alexander Buchner Beaudet, Lawrence Man, Puja Pradhan, Navid Sedaghat, Chloe Papparis, et al.(2022). Longitudinal SARS-CoV-2 RNA wastewater monitoring across a range of scales correlates with total and regional COVID-19 burden in a well-defined urban population . Water Research. 220. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 118611. Elsevier {BV}

Thierry Chekouo, Danika Lipman, Sandra E. Safo, Jon M. Jacobs(2022). Multi-omic analysis reveals enriched pathways associated with COVID-19 and COVID-19 severity . PLOS ONE. 17. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString e0267047. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Thierry Chekouo(2022). A pragmatic dementia risk score for patients with mild cognitive impairment in a memory clinic population: Development and validation of a dementia risk score using routinely collected data . Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 8. (1). Wiley

Thierry Chekouo, Meng Wang, Eric E Smith, Nils Daniel Forkert, Zahinoor Ismail, Aravind Ganesh, Tolulope Sajobi(2021). Integrating expert knowledge for dementia risk prediction in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): a study protocol . BMJ Open. 11. (11). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString e051185. {BMJ}

Thierry Chekouo, Xin Chen, Qingrun Zhang(2021). Filtering High-Dimensional Methylation Marks With Extremely Small Sample Size: An Application to Gastric Cancer Data . Frontiers in Genetics. 12. Frontiers Media {SA}

Thierry Chekouo, Sandra E Safo(2021). Bayesian integrative analysis and prediction with application to atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease . Biostatistics. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Thierry Chekouo, Weibing Li(2021). Bayesian group selection with non-local priors . Computational Statistics. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Thierry Chekouo, Eric Jeffords, Samuel Freeman, Breanna Cole, Kate Root, Richard Melvin, Lynne Bemis, Glenn Simmons Jr(2020). Y‑box binding protein 1 acts as a negative regulator of stearoyl CoA desaturase 1 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma . Oncology Letters. 20. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1--1. Spandidos Publications

(2020). Investigating protein patterns in human leukemia cell line experiments: A Bayesian approach for extremely small sample sizes . Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

Thierry Chekouo, Shariq Mohammed, Arvind Rao(2020). A Bayesian 2D functional linear model for gray-level co-occurrence matrices in texture analysis of lower grade gliomas . NeuroImage: Clinical. 28. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 102437. Elsevier {BV}

Thierry Chekouo, Francesco C Stingo, Caleb A Class, Yuanqing Yan, Zachary Bohannan, Yue Wei, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Samir Hanash, Kim-Anh Do(2019). Investigating protein patterns in human leukemia cell line experiments: A Bayesian approach for extremely small sample sizes . Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 29. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1181--1196. {SAGE} Publications

(2018). High-dimensional variable selection with the plaid mixture model for clustering . Computational Statistics.

Thierry Chekouo, Alejandro Murua(2018). High-dimensional variable selection with the plaid mixture model for clustering . Computational Statistics. 33. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1475--1496. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

James D. Doecke, Thierry T. Chekouo, Francesco Stingo, Kim-Anh Do(2017). miRNA Target Gene Identification: Sourcing miRNA Target Gene Relationships for the Analyses of TCGA Illumina MiSeq and RNA-Seq Hiseq Platform Data . International Journal of Human Genetics. 14. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 17--22. Kamla Raj Enterprises

Thierry Chekouo, Francesco C. Stingo, Michele Guindani, Kim-Anh Do(2016). A Bayesian predictive model for imaging genetics with application to schizophrenia . The Annals of Applied Statistics. 10. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1547--1571. Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Thierry Chekouo, Francesco C. Stingo, James D. Doecke, Kim-Anh Do(2016). A Bayesian integrative approach for multi-platform genomic data: A kidney cancer case study . Biometrics. Wiley-Blackwell

Thierry Chekouo, Alejandro Murua, Wolfgang Raffelsberger(2015). The Gibbs-plaid biclustering model . The Annals of Applied Statistics. 9. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1643--1670. Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Thierry Chekouo, Alejandro Murua(2015). The penalized biclustering model and related algorithms . Journal of Applied Statistics. 42. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1255--1277. Informa {UK} Limited

Thierry Chekouo, Francesco C. Stingo, James D. Doecke, Kim-Anh Do(2015). miRNA-target gene regulatory networks: A Bayesian integrative approach to biomarker selection with application to kidney cancer . Biometrics. 71. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 428--438. Wiley-Blackwell