Chiara Sabatti's Group

Our group is housed in the departments of Biomedical Data Science and Statistics at Stanford. We are interested in the statistical challenges presented by high-throughput biomedical data. We are members of the center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics, BioX, and the Stanford Cancer Institute. Chiara is also an associate director for Stanford Data Science, and the Data Science BS.

The Team

We are always looking for curious and motivated members, so take a look at our work and reach out if interested. We aspire to embrace a breadth of complementary interests, research styles, and point of views in a community where everyone feels empowered to contribute.

Chiara Sabatti

Yusuph Mavura

Alessandro Sinai

Paula Gablenz

Paula graduated in summer 2025, but we are lucky that she is still helping with some projects.

Natalie La Mariana

Natalie's administrative abilities keep us on track.

Research

The buttons below point to complete lists of publications. Click on the image to learn about the work we are currently spotlighting.

Education

Classes

Currently teaching

Data Science Major

If you are a Stanford Undergraduate interested in a quantitative approach to sciences, check out the Data Science Major. I also work with Biomedical Computation.

Undergraduate Research

I work with two summer research programs taylored for Stanford students: Data Surf and Data Science for Social Good .

If you are attending a different college, there are a number of programs that you might find interesting. I run one called Data Science Mentoring.

Graduate Students

If you are currently at Stanford and interested in my work, please contact me. A good idea is to take one of the classes I teach or attend the journal club/seminars I run.

I strive to provide mentoring opportunities for graduate students: check out Data Science Mentoring and Data Science for Social Good.

For a truly inderdisciplinary experience check out the Data Science Scholars Program.

Highschool

While I am often away during the summer, and hence I can rarely mentor high-school students, here is a link to Research Internships for High School Students at Stanford.

Here is a video of my TEDx presentation at the event organized by Gunn High School, on February 25,2017 Data, Science, and the Truth.

Graduate Applications

If you are interested in graduate studies at Stanford in our area of research, you can apply to the Statistics PhD/master program or to the Biomedical Data Science and ICME programs.

Stanford has a program for Visiting Student Researchers from other universities. You should be aware that there are fees associated to this. The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies offers fellowships that would help with this if you qualify.

Consulting and collaborations

One of the most fun things of working in statistics is that you get to "play" with scientists in many different disciplines: do not hesitate to contact me for possible collaborations, and check out the services we offer with the Data Studio.

Contact

Email: Sabatti AT stanford DOT edu
Office: CoDa E226, in the new Computing and Data Science Building

Mail Address
Department of Biomedical Data Science (DBDS)
300 Pasteur Drive, Edwards Building
Stanford, CA 94305-5464

Administrative Associate
Natalie La Mariana
Email: nlamaria@stanford.edu

Please include Natalie in any e-mail to increase your chance of a prompt reply. If you are looking to find some time on my calendar, involving Natalie is an absolute necessity.