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Demba Fofana

Assistant Professor

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: Petty 143
Email: d_fofana@uncg.edu
Starting year at UNCG: 2024
Office Hours: W 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm; R 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm; and by appointment

Education

Degree(s): Ph.D. in Applied Statistics (2016), Ph.D. in Economics (2017) from the University of Memphis, TN

Teaching

Fall 2024
  • STA-108 LEC (Elemntry Intro Probablty Stats)
  • STA-108 LEC (Elemntry Intro Probablty Stats), MWF 9:00-9:50, PETT 303
  • STA-642 LEC (Statistical Computing)
  • STA-442 LEC (Statistical Computing)

Research Interests: Computational Statistics; Statistical and Machine Learning; Statistical Genetics: Bayesian and Empirical Bayes procedures applied to gene expression data; Translational Research.

Selected Publications

  • Stan Pounds and Demba Fofana. HybridMTest: Hybrid Multiple Testing. R package version 1.48.0. Bioconductor (2024) see https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/HybridMTest.html
  • Kevin Mutore, Jiyun Lim, Demba Fofana, Annelyn Torres Reveron, and Jeffrey Skubic “Hear Hoofbeats? Think Head and Neck Trauma: A 10-year NTDB Review of Equestrian Related Trauma in the United States.’’ Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (Journal) September 2021;6:e000728. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34595353
  • Demba Fofana, E.O. George, and Dale Bowman “Combining Assumptions and Graphical Network into Gene Expression Data Analysis.” Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (2021). See https://jsdajournal.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40488-021-00126-z.pdf
  • Gabriela Chavarria, Demba Fofana, and Manish Tripathi “Factors responsible for ethnicity-based survival rates of colorectal cancer patients in the state of Texas” Cancer Research Journal. 2021, see https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/81/13_Supplement/779
  • S. Izadi, N. Patel, D. Fofana, A. Paredes, S. Snyder,A. Torres-Reveron and J. Skubic “Racial Inequality in the Trauma of Woman: A Disproportionate Decade.” Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2020; 88(7). See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32251262
  • T. Nianogo, A. Okunade, D. Fofana and W. Chen. “Determinants of U.S. Prescription Drug Utilization Using County Level Data.” Health Economics Journal (2015). See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903420
  • Daelunn R. Buelow, Matthew J. Bankowski, Demba Fofana, Zhengming Gu, Stanley Pounds and Randall T. Hayden. “Comparison of two multiplexed PCR assays for the detection of HSV-1, HSV-2 and VZV with extracted and unextracted cutaneous and mucosal specimens.” (2013). Elsevier Journal of Clinical Virology. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903420
  • Navid, F., Baker, S. D., McCarville, M. B., Stewart, C. F., Billups, C. A., Wu, J., Davidoff, A, M., Spunt, S., Furman, W. L., McGregor, L. M., Hu, S., Panetta, J., Turner, D., Fofana, D., Reddick, W. E., Leung, W. H., Santana, V. M. “Phase I and Clinical Pharmacology Study of Bevacizumab, Sorafenib, and Low-dose Cyclophosphamide in Children and Young Adults with Refractory/Recurrent Solid Tumors.” (2012). Journal of Clinical Cancer Research. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23143218

Brief Biography

Dr. Demba Fofana earned a PhD in Applied Statistics (2016) and a PhD in Economics (2017) from the University Of Memphis, TN.

His research focuses on Computational Statistics, Statistical genetics, Statistical and Machine Learning, and Translational research.