Skip to main content

Sonia Jain, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
 Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
UC San Diego

Areas of Expertise:  Biostatistics, clinical trial design, analysis of complex data

Dr. Sonia Jain is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
and Human Longevity Science. Dr. Jain received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Jain's primary methodological research interests are in Bayesian biostatistics, with special emphasis on nonparametric Bayesian models. Her research interests include adaptive clinical trial designs, statistical computing, and statistical genomics. Dr. Jain is the lead Biostatistician for many collaborative projects in several disciplines, including HIV, Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Cardiology, posttraumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.