Adam A. Szpiro, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Box 357232
Seattle, WA 98195-7232

Phone: (206) 616-6846
Email: aszpiro at u.washington.edu


     Research Interests        Curriculum Vitae        Selected Publications



Research Interests


I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Washington, and my interests in Biostatistics include

·         Statistical techniques for environmental epidemiology

o   Spatio-temporal modeling of intra-urban variation in air pollution exposures (especially for MESA Air ).

o   Measurement error when individual exposures are predicted based on monitoring data.

    o   Efficient methods to adjust for unmeasured temporal or spatial confounding.

·         Connections between Bayesian and frequentist methods of inference, particularly a Bayesian paradigm for model-robust regression that is analogous to estimating equations and associated "sandwich" standard error estimates.

 

See my CV for a detailed account of my experience before coming to the University of Washington and my current activities

·         From 1999 through 2006, I was a member of the Research Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked on a variety of scientific policy related problems in tactical air defense and bio-terrorism defense. 

·         Prior to that, I was a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at Brown University where I wrote my Ph.D. with Paul Dupuis in stochastic processes and numerical methods for optimal control problems.

 


Curriculum Vitae


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Selected Publications


·   Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, and Lumley T, Efficient measurement error correction with spatially misaligned data, Biostatistics, In Press, 2010.

·        Szpiro AA, Rice KM, and Lumley T.  Model-robust regression and a Bayesian ‘sandwich’ estimator.  Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol 4(4), 2010.

·   Adar SD, Klein R, Klein BEK, Szpiro AA, Cotch MF, Wong TY, O'Neill MS, Shrager S, Barr RG, Siscovick D, Daviglus ML, Sampson PD, and Kaufman JD.  Air pollution and the human microvasculature in vivo assessed via retinal imaging: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air).  PLOS Medicine, Vol 7 (11), 2010.

·         Van Hee V, Adar SD, Szpiro AA, Barr RG, Diez Roux A, Bluemke DA, Sheppard L, Gill EA, Bahrami H, Wassel C, Sale MM, Siscovick DS, Rotter JI, Rich SS, and Kaufman JD.  Common genetic variation, residential proximity to traffic exposure, and left ventricular mass: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 118 (7), 2010. 

·         Szpiro AA, Sampson PD, Sheppard L, Lumley T, Adar SD, and Kaufman JD, Predicting intra-urban Variations in air pollution with complex Spatio-temporal dependencies, Environmetrics, Vol 21, 2010.

·         Wilton D, Szpiro AA, Gould T, and Larson T.  Improving spatial concentration estimates for nitrogen oxides using a hybrid meteorological dispersion/land use regression model in Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA.  Science of the Total Environment, Vol 408 (5), 1120-1130, 2010.

·         Van Hee V, Adar SD, Szpiro AA, Barr RG, Bluemke DA, Diez Roux A, Gill E, Sheppard L, and Kaufman JD, Exposure to traffic and left ventriculal mass and function: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis, American Journal of Respiratory and Clinical Care Medicine, Vol 179, No. 9, 2009.

·         Adar SD, Davey M, Sullivan J, Compher M, Szpiro AA, and Liu L-J, Predicting airborne particle levels aboard Washington state school buses, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 42, No. 23, 2008.

·         Szpiro AA, Johnson B, and Buckeridge D, Health surveillance and diagnosis for mitigating a bioterror attack, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2007.

·         Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Sampson PD, and Kim SY, Validating national kriging exposure estimation, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 7, 2007.

·         Rudzinski C, Herzig-Marx R, Lin J, Szpiro AA, and Johnson B, Pathogen detection using headspace analysis, Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research, 2004.

·         Szpiro AA and Dupuis P, Second order numerical methods for first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2002

·         Dupuis P and Szpiro AA, Convergence of the optimal feedback policies in a numerical method for a class of deterministic optimal control problems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2001

·         Lenhart S, Protopoescu V, and Szpiro AA, Optimal control for competing coalitions, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Vol.  28, No. 8, 1997.

·         Szpiro AA and Protopopescu V, Parabolic systems with competitive interactions and control on initial conditions, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol.  59, No. 2-3, 1993.


Preprints

·        Sampson PD, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Lindstrom J, and Kaufman JD.  Pragmatic estimation of a spatio-temporal air quality model with irregular monitoring data.  Berkeley Electronic Press, University of Washington Biostatistics Working Paper, No. 353, 2009.

·         Rice K, Lumley T, and Szpiro AA, Trading bias for precision: Decision theory for intervals and sets, Berkeley Electronic Press, University of Washington Biostatistics Working Paper, No. 336, 2008.