Susan Murphy

University of Michigan
Professor of Statistics

Susan Murphy is the H.E. Robbins Professor of Statistics, Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; previously she taught at the Pennsylvania State University (1989-1997). Her degrees include a BS (Louisiana State University, Mathematics, 1980) and a Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Statistics, 1989). She was a 2007-8 Invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University and an 1998 IMS Special Invited Lecturer at the Joint Statistical meetings. She received an NSF Mid-Career Methodological Opportunities Fellowship in 1999 and a National Institute on Drug Abuse K02 Mid-Career Award (2002-7). She has served on numerous professional committees, including serving as IMS program chair (2000-2003) and co-chairing the SAMSI National Advisory Committee (2012-). She is an elected fellow of ASA, IMS and an elected member of the ISI. She is a former editor of the Annals of Statistics, was a guest co-editor for a special issue in Drug and Alcohol Dependence and served on the editorial board of the Annals of Statistics, Biometrics and Sociological Methodology. She is a current member of the NIMH Interventions Review Committee for Adult Disorders. Her research interests include causal inference concerning dynamic or individually tailored treatment regimes, sequential decision problems and inference for high dimensional models.

Working Group

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

Additional Information

Email: samurphy@umich.edu