Yong Chen, PhD

Dr. Yong Chen is Professor of Biostatistics at Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (DBEI), and a Senior Scholar at Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Chen is an elected fellow of American Statistical Association (ASA), American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), International Statistical Institute (ISI), and Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (RSM).

Dr. Chen is the Founding Director of the Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He founded and directs a Computing, Inference and Learning Lab (PennCIL) at University of Pennsylvania, which focuses on integrating fundamental principles and wisdoms of statistics into quantitative methods for tackling key challenges in modern biomedical data. Dr. Chen is an expert in synthesis of evidence from multiple data sources, including systematic review and meta-analysis, distributed algorithms, and data integration, with applications to comparative effectiveness studies, health policy, and precision medicine. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers including 70 statistical methodological papers and 70 medical informatics papers. Dr. Chen’s work has been continuously funded by NIH, AHRQ and PCORI.

Dr. Chen serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA), and The Annals of Applied Statistics (AoAS), one of the Statistical Consultants for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)-AI, a method editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine, and Commissioner at the Committee of Lancet Commission on Rare Disease, among others.

For more information, please visit his lab website: https://penncil.med.upenn.edu.