Brian Caffo, PhD is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He graduated from the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida in 2001. He works in the fields of computational statistics and neuroinformatics and co-created the SMART ( www.smart-stats.org) working group. He has been the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist ( PECASE) and Engineers and Bloomberg School of Public Health Golden Apple and AMTRA teaching awards.