T32 STEER in Biomedical Sciences Fellow
Aug 1, 2025·
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Spencer Hilligoss
Selected as a T32 STEER in Biomedical Sciences Fellow, an NIH-funded training fellowship supporting research at the intersection of statistics and biomedical sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Renewed for a second year in 2026.
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PhD Candidate in Statistics
Spencer Hilligoss is a PhD candidate in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine,
advised by Dr. Annie Qu and Dr. Tianchen Qian. His research develops methods for causal
mediation analysis, representation learning, and generative modeling of complex time series,
with applications spanning personalized medicine, mobile health, and financial data. His
work on causal mediation in continuous glucose monitoring was recently published in
npj Metabolic Health and Disease.