Dr. Jaroslaw Harezlak is a Professor in the Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Indiana University School of Public
Health in Bloomington. He studied mathematics at the University of Wroclaw, and
received his B.Sc. in mathematics from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC,
Canada, M.Sc. in statistics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada and Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA, USA. After a 2-year post-doctoral training at the Harvard School of Public
Health, he joined Indiana University as an Assistant Professor. He has held
short-term visiting appointments at the University of Wollongong and University
of Science and Technology, Australia, University of Porto, Portugal and the
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland and has been a visiting professor at
the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health during the academic year 2013–2014.
His interests span a number of medical areas including NeuroHIV, physical
activity, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and concussions as well as
statistical areas including semiparametric regression, functional data analysis
and structured high-dimensional data. In his applied research, he uses data
arising in structural and functional brain imaging, accelerometry and
intensively collected longitudinal studies.
