Lillian Rountree, MS
I am a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, working with professors Bhramar Mukherjee and Harsh Parikh on topics in causal inference, infectious disease modeling, and data equity.
Biography
I am originally from North Carolina and now live in New Haven, Connecticut, as I work towards my PhD, advised by professors Bhramar Mukherjee and Harsh Parikh. I have a BA from Columbia University in statistics (and French!) and an MS in biostatistics from the University of Michigan.
My dissertation focus is still nebulous, but I’m broadly interested in causal inference, particularly counterfactuals without control groups; intervention effect estimation in infectious disease modeling; and operationalizing data equity and ethics in algorithms.
In my life outside of research and academia, I am a literary fiction writer, represented by Katie Grimm at Curtis Brown, Ltd. Beyond that, I love literature, pop culture, meandering walks, and, for better and for worse, North Carolina sports teams.