Haitao Chu, MD, PhD

Dr. Haitao Chu is an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in the academic institutions and pharmaceutical industry. His areas of expertise include clinical trials, real world evidence, precision medicine, diagnostic medicine and health technology assessment. Methodologically, his expertise includes complex innovative trial designs, causal inference, data integration, correlated and survival data analysis, missing data analysis, Bayesian hierarchical models, federated learning and evidence synthesis methods. He has been influential externally, with decades of research, mentoring and teaching experience at major institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He has been awarded numerous federal methodology grants as the principal investigator, and has served on editorial boards of major journals, including Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), American Journal of Epidemiology and Statistics in Medicine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.