Curriculum Vitae

A (fairly recent) copy of my complete CV (updated June 2022) can be obtained here: GillenCV.

Academic Positions

Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine (2022-present)

Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC Irvine (2022-present)

Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, UC Irvine (2022-present) 

Chair, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine (2016-present) 

Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine (2014-2022)

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC Irvine (2014-2022)

Professor, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, UC Irvine (2014-2022) 

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine (2008-2014)

Associate Professor, Program in Public Health, UC Irvine (2012-2014)

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UC Irvine (2008-2014)

Assistant  Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine (2004-2008)

Assistant  Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago (2003-2004)

Elected and Appointed Positions

NIH Biostatistical Methods Research and Design (BMRD) Study Section; Member (2013-2019), Chair (2018-2019)

President/President-Elect/Past President, Western North American Region of the International Biometrics Society (2010-2012)

FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs (2006-2010)

Awards & Honors

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) (2023)

Dean’s Award for Research, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2023) 

Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine (2022)

Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Education and Mentoring, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2019) 

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (Elected 2016)

Dean’s Award for Mid-career Research Excellence, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2015) 

Dean’s Award for Service, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2013) 

Clinical Research, Education, and Awareness Award, Chao Cancer Center, University of California, Irvine (2013)

Dean’s Award for Service Excellence, UCI School of Information and Computer Science (2012)

Excellence in Mentoring Award, UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (2011)

Donovan J. Thompson Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington (2000)

Leadership Positions at Reserch Centers

Director of Data and Statistics Core, Alzheimer Disease Research Center, UC Irvine (2008-present)

Director of Statistics, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Irvine (2010-2016)