Research Interest, Skills, Experience and Education

Contact Me

• melinda.higgins@emory.edu
• 404-727-5180
• Emory University - School of Nursing
• 1520 Clifon Road; Atlanta, GA 30322

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Research Interests

• Reproducible Research
• Dynamic Documentation
• R programming
• Pattern Recognition
• Multivariate Statistical Modeling

Skills

• Biostatistics and Research
• R and formally S/S+
• Rmarkdown and Quarto
• GIT and Github
• SPSS
• SAS
• MATLAB
• Pascal
• FORTRAN
• Others: awk, sed, perl

Job Titles and Experience

• Emory University, Atlanta, GA; School of Nursing; Office of Nursing Research
  • Director Biostatistics and Data Core [2021-current]
  • Research Professor [2019 - current]
  • Associate Research Professor [2007 - 2019]
• Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA
  • Director of the National guard bureau (NGB) Technology Consortium Program [1998 - 2011]
  • Principal Research Scientist [2005 - 2011]
  • Senior Research Scientist [2000 - 2005]
  • Research Scientist II [1996 - 2000]
  • Temporary Technical Advisor [1995 - 1996]

Education

• PhD in Chemometrics/Analytical Chemistry
  • Dissertation Title: Chemometric analysis of gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric and spectroscopic data for classification and modeling of chemical structure and composition
  • University of South Carolina
  • 1994
• MS in Statistics [Experimental Design]
  • Thesis Title: The integrated michaelis-menten model: Estimation, inference, experimental designs, and derivation from the classical michaelis-menten model
  • University of South Carolina
  • 1995
• BS Chemistry & Mathematics [Dual Major]
  • Saint Andrews Presbyterian College
  • 1989