Overview
Tyler earned his first MS in Botany & Plant Pathology with a concentration in molecular biology from Oregon State University and his second MS in Statistics with a concentration in statistical genetics from North Carolina State University. He currently collaborates with researchers in the Abdominal Transplant Division of the Department of Surgery and in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. His main interests include hierarchical linear models, large "omics" datasets, Bayesian inference and Stan, machine learning, and spatial statistics.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Biostatistician II
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Publications
Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest.
Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · September 2025 Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize fluctuations in species abundances, the data required t ... Full text CiteDevelopment of a natural language processing algorithm to extract social determinants of health from clinician notes.
Journal Article Am J Transplant · June 2025 Disparities in access to the organ transplant waitlist are well-documented, but research into modifiable factors has been limited due to a lack of access to organized prewaitlisting data. This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) algo ... Full text Link to item CiteA data pipeline for secure extraction and sharing of social determinants of health.
Journal Article PLoS One · 2025 OBJECTIVES: Linking neighborhood- and patient-level data provides valuable information about the influence of upstream social determinants of health (SDOH). However, sharing of these data across health systems presents challenges. We set out to develop a p ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Living donor liver transplant in minority populations
ResearchBiostatistician · Awarded by Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 2023 - 2028Improving Racial Equity in Clinical Decision Making about Access to Organ Transplant
ResearchBiostatistician · Awarded by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities · 2022 - 2027Monocyte-derived alveolar macrophage drives inflammatory response to lung ozone exposure
ResearchBiostatistician II · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2022 - 2027View All Grants