Dr. Chen, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics, and Human Genetics at the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Director of Statistical Genetics Core at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Chen’s research interests focus on developing statistical and machine-learning methods for multi-scale omics data at both population and cell level with applications to complex diseases including childhood asthma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). He has served as Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, industry and private foundations. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers including first or senior-authored papers in JAMA, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, Genome Research, NAR, AJRCCM, JACI, PNAS as well as collaborative papers in NEJM, Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Immunity and Nature Immunology. He is a reviewer for grants from NIH, private foundations, French and Hong Kong research agencies as well as for many top journals such as NEJM, Nature Genetics, Nature Methods, and Nature Biotechnology. He serves on the Editorial Board of Genome Biology and the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and the Scientific Grant Review Committee of the American Thoracic Society (ATS). He has mentored over 20 pre- and post-doctoral fellows. He was elected as an ATS Fellow in 2023.