Maiying Kong, PhD is Professor of Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in SPHIS and holds the Wendell Cherry Chair in Clinical Trial Research. She leads the Biostatistics Core in the UofL Brown Cancer Center. In addition, she leads the research design, compliance and data management (RDCD) core for the NIH funded Louisville Clinical & Translational Research Lenter (LCTRC), and she serves as co-director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Facility Core (BIFC) in UofL CIEHS. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) for a Kentucky Medicaid-funded project and as a co-Investigator on 10 other NIH and DoD-funded projects. Her research areas encompass a wide spectrum, including experimental design and data analysis for preclinical and clinical studies, chemical mixture analyses, longitudinal studies, spatiotemporal data analysis, assessing treatment effects from observational data, identifying optimal treatment regimens, and clinical trial design and methods, and advanced spatial analyses for imaging mass cytometry data.