Biography

Lauren Burns is an Associate Professor of Instruction and Deputy Chair of the Department of Statistics, Operations and Data Science. She teaches traditional and online BBA, honors, and general education courses, as well as courses in the MS in Business Analytics, Fox MBA and Executive MBA programs. Outside of teaching, Dr. Burns has worked on various consulting projects for the Center for Statistical Analysis at Temple. She also serves as the Academic Director of the Fox undergraduate program in Statistical Science and Data Analytics.

Dr. Burns’ research interests are in the areas of survival analysis, specifically the presence of non-proportional hazards, high-dimensional data, and dimension reduction. She focuses mostly on applications in Biostatistics dealing with micro-array gene expression data.

Before beginning her career here, Dr. Burns received her M.S. degree and PhD in Statistics from Temple’s Fox School of Business. She also studied at Muhlenberg College, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Economics.