Ellen Taylor

Education

M.S. Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University
B.A. Economics and B.S. Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University

Biography

Ellen Taylor is a third-year graduate student in the Biostatistics Ph.D. program. She works as a research assistant in the Concussion, Acquired Brain Injury, and Neurodegeneration Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her research focuses on mild traumatic brain injury and interpretable machine learning, with a focus on extracting reliable, unbiased feature importance for noisy psychological variables. She received the award for best biostatistics poster at the 2025 SMU Research & Innovation Week, as well as the department's Minton Award in 2024

Research Interests

Variable Importance Metrics (VIMs)
Nonparametric Modeling
Noise Reduction Techniques
Survey Sampling
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)