Presented by: Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics & Epidemiology and Professor of Statistics & Data Science

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen is University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Professor of Statistics and Data Science, at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. His primary area of interest is robust and efficient statistical theory and methods with applications in causal inference, missing data problems, statistical genetics and mixed model theory. He works on the development of statistical and epidemiologic methods that extract information in data collected in collaborations with scientific investigators, while avoiding unnecessary assumptions about the underlying data generating mechanism. He has won many prestigious awards during his career including co- recipient of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (2022) and delivering the Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship at Harvard University (2020), The David Blackwell Lectureship at University of Oxford (2023) and The Challis Lectures at University of Florida (2023).