Jesus E. Vazquez

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where I hold the Johns Hopkins Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship under Dr. Elizabeth A. Stuart. I completed my Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Dr. Tanya P. Garcia. My dissertation developed robust and efficient estimators for regression models with right-censored covariates, with applications to Huntington disease progression.

My research focuses on settings where data are incomplete or distributed: censoring, missingness, and data that cannot leave the institutions that collect them. Currently, I am working on federated learning frameworks that let multiple clinical sites draw joint inferences without sharing individual-level data. I collaborate across health domains, including neurological disease, pulmonary health, preterm kidney health, cardiovascular outcomes, and physical activity.

On the personal side, I consider myself a fronterizo, as I grew up on both sides of the US-Mexico border (Chihuahua and New Mexico). My favorite board game is Catan, pineapple goes on pizza, and one of my favorite quotes is “De aquí y de allá,” which translates to “from here and from there.” I really like this quote because it allows us to fully embrace our Latino heritage and also welcomes our experience growing up here in the US: we can be part of both cultures.