Layla Mosama Parast Bartroff is an American biostatistician whose research involves surrogate markers, predictive modelling, survival analysis, causal inference, and health care quality.
Formerly a senior statistician and co-director of the Center for Causal Inference at the RAND Corporation, she is an associate professor of statistics and data sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
[1] Her dissertation, Landmark Prediction of Survival, was supervised by Tianxi Cai.
[5][6] After working at the RAND Corporation as a senior statistician and co-director of the Center for Causal Inference, Parast returned to the University of Texas at Austin as a faculty member, joining the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences as an associate professor in 2022.
[1][2][7] Her husband, Jay Bartroff,[4] joined the same department at the same time, moving there from the University of Southern California.