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Khang Woo Ahn, PhD

Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics and Chief Statistical Director of the CIBMTR

Locations

  • Biostatistics

Contact Information

Education

PhD, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2008
MS, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2005
BS, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2003

Research Areas of Interest

  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial
  • Controlled Clinical Trial
  • Data Accuracy
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • High Dimensional Data Analysis
  • Historical Data for Clinical Trials
  • Machine Learning
  • Missing Data
  • Right-Censored Data Analysis

Research Experience

  • Survival and competing risks data analysis, high dimensional data analysis, missing data, bioinformatics, personalized medicine

Research Interests

Dr. Kwang Woo Ahn is a professor of biostatistics at the Ϲ. He joined the division in the fall of 2008. He has been collaborating with various research groups at Ϲ including , Department of Physiology, and Department of Plastic Surgery. In CIBMTR, he is serving as PhD statistician of several working committees including Chronic Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Pediatric Cancer. He is involved in projects on hypertension, next generation sequencing data from Physiology. His current research interest includes survival analysis and variable selection.

Publications

  • (Gauthier J, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Badawy S, Cairo MS, Delgado J, Grover N, Haverkos B, de Lima M, Malone A, Mussetti A, Nieto Y, Pawarode A, Pearson L, Solh M, Sureda A, Tun AM, Wudhikarn K, Yamshon S, Shadman M, Turtle CJ, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Am J Hematol. 2025 Oct;100(10):1792-1802 PMID: 40785644 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105012974565 08/11/2025

  • (Thiruvengadam SK, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Hertzberg M, Epperla N, Metheny L, Hong S, Jain T, Aljurf M, Beitinjaneh A, Vaughn J, Gopal A, Iqbal M, Wirk B, Manjappa S, Oliver C, Mohty R, Shadman M, Turtle C, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Am J Hematol. 2025 Oct;100(10):1803-1812 PMID: 40762207 08/05/2025

  • (Hossain NM, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Bilal Abid M, Al Nughmush A, Bacher U, Bi X, Hashmi SK, Hilal T, Husnain M, Khimani F, Maziarz RT, Modi D, Ram R, Rizzieri D, Sica RA, Steinberg A, Vij R, Shadman M, Turtle C, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Br J Haematol. 2025 Sep;207(3):1011-1018 PMID: 40693472 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105011357932 07/23/2025

  • (Perales MA, Awan FT, Boumendil A, Patel J, Castagna L, Angelucci E, Finel H, Kulagin A, Glass B, Corradini P, Herrera AF, Blaise D, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Halahleh K, Ahmed S, Martínez C, Giebel S, Montoto S, Jones RJ, Ahmed N, Lynch RC, De Lima MJ, Shadman M, Sauter CS, Ahn KW, Hamadani M, Bazarbachi A, Sureda A.) Blood. 2025 Aug 21;146(8):1011-1029 PMID: 40623049 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105011651420 07/07/2025

  • (Nadiminti KV, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Bezerra E, Chen A, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Hashmi H, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kuruvilla J, Lekakis L, Locke FL, Murthy H, Mousthafa MA, Perales MA, Pophali P, Riedell PA, Shah NN, Wang T, Pasquini M, Hamadani M, Turtle CJ, Herrera AF, Shadman M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Aug 05 PMID: 40754223 08/04/2025

  • (Spellman SR, Xu K, Oloyede T, Ahn KW, Akhtar O, Bolon YT, Broglie L, Bloomquist J, Bupp C, Chen M, Devine SM, El-Jurdi N, Hamadani M, Hengen M, Huppler AH, Jaglowski S, Kuxhausen M, Lee SJ, Moskop A, Page KM, Pasquini MC, Perez W, Phelan R, Rizzo D, Saber W, Stefanski HE, Steinert P, Tuschl E, Visotcky A, Vogel R, Auletta JJ, Shaw BE, Allbee-Johnson M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Aug;31(8):505-532 PMID: 40398621 PMCID: PMC12302970 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105009874373 05/22/2025

  • (Furqan F, Ahn KW, Kaur M, Patel J, Ansell S, Awan FT, Baird J, Bezerra E, Farooq U, Fung H, Khurana A, Lekakis L, Lutfi F, McCarty J, Mukherjee A, Nath R, Romancik J, Schuster SJ, Smith M, Winter A, Turtle C, Sauter C, Shadman M, Herrara A, Hamadani M.) Am J Hematol. 2025 Jul;100(7):1152-1162 PMID: 40231369 PMCID: PMC12270545 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105002610922 04/15/2025

  • (Wang Y, Chen YG, Ahn KW, Lin CW.) Commun Biol. 2025 Apr 02;8(1):547 PMID: 40175506 PMCID: PMC11965523 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105001734248 04/03/2025

  • (Juan W, Ahn KW, Chen YG, Lin CW.) Bioengineering (Basel). 2025 Jan 03;12(1) PMID: 39851305 PMCID: PMC11763284 01/24/2025

  • (Khanal M, Logan BR, Banerjee A, Fang X, Ahn KW.) Pharm Stat. 2025;24(1):e2464 PMID: 39846144 PMCID: PMC12147052 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85216016393 01/23/2025

  • (Khanal M, Kim S, Fang X, Ahn KW.) Commun Stat Theory Methods. 2025;54(4):1081-1099 PMID: 39790905 PMCID: PMC11708822 01/10/2025

  • (Khanal M, Kim S, Ahn KW.) Commun Stat Simul Comput. 2025;54(1):120-143 PMID: 39790711 PMCID: PMC11708817 01/10/2025