Welcome to Dr. Kan Shao's Computational Risk Assessment (CRA) Laboratory at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health Bloomington. The content of this website describes the current and previous studies, activities and personnel in the CRA Lab.

Dr. Shao received a dual PhD degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University advised by Dr. Mitchell J. Small. In addition, Dr. Shao worked with Dr. Daniel B. Neill in the CMU School of Computer Science and got a secondary Masters degree in Machine Learning. From August 2011 to July 2014, Dr. Shao worked at the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), and was trained in Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA). Dr. Shao's research has been focused on developing innovative probabilistic and computational approaches to advance dose-response analysis (espeically benchmark dose modeling) to support chemical risk assessment. A number of graduate and undergraduate students are being trained in the scientific disciplines of risk assessment in the CRA Lab. The research areas of CRA Lab include Chemical Risk Assessment, Dose-Response Modeling, Environmental Health Policy Analysis, Biostatistics, and Computating and Machine Learning in Toxicology and Risk Assessment.

Contact Information:
Dr. Kan Shao, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, IU School of Public Health, 1025 E Seventh Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 856-2725
Email: kshao at indiana dot edu