Damla Şentürk is a Turkish-American biostatistician and professor of biostatistics in the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health[1] whose interests include longitudinal studies, functional data analysis, and applications of biostatistics in the study of autism and of dialysis outcomes.
[1][2][3] Şentürk studied mathematics at Boğaziçi University, graduating in 1999.
[4] Her dissertation, Covariate Adjusted Regression and Correlation, was supervised by Hans-Georg Müller.
[5] She became an assistant professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University in 2004, and moved to the UCLA Department of Biostatistics in 2011, adding a joint appointment with the UCLA Department of Statistics in 2014.
[4] Şentürk became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.