This past November, we held our endowed lectures, the Challis Lectures. Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen from the University of Pennsylvania was our invited speaker.
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen is university professor, professor of biostatistics in biostatistics and epidemiology and professor of statistics and data science, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to UPenn, he was professor of biostatistics and epidemiologic methods with joint appointments in the departments of biostatistics and epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard). He received his BS in electrical engineering from Yale in 1999 and his Ph.D. in biostatistics from Harvard in 2006.
His primary area of interest is in semi-parametric efficiency theory with application to causal inference, missing data problems, statistical genetics, and mixed model theory. He works on the development of statistical and epidemiologic methods that make efficient use of the information in data collected by scientific investigators, while avoiding unnecessary assumptions about the underlying data generating mechanism. He has won many prestigious awards during his career including co-winner of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (2022), the Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship (2020), and co-winner of the Society of Epidemiologic Research and American Journal of Epidemiology Article of the Year.
Read more https://stat.ufl.edu/challis-lectures/2023-eric-tchetgen-tchetgen/