Yong Chen

Dr. Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, founded and directs the Computing, Inference, and Learning Lab (PENNCIL) at University of Pennsylvania. The mission of PENNCIL lab is to develop computational methods and software to transform real-world data into insights, to disseminate the methods and knowledge to research communities, and to bridge the gap from data to actionable health care.

Research areas:

Real-world data; clinical evidence generation; learning health system; healthcare delivery.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University
• Thesis Advisors: Professor Kung-Yee Liang and Professor Charles Rohde.
• M.A. in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, the Johns Hopkins University
• B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China