I am an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am affiliated with Department of Statistics, UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC), Health Innovation Program (HIP), Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR), and Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA). I am also a member of PsycheEMERGE.
I got my Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and received my bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007.
Before joining UW-Madison in 2017, I was an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.
I am currently serving as Associate Editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics and Biometrics (starting July 2025).
Address: 207D WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) Building, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726
Email: gchen25 at wisc.edu; Tel: 608-262-0765
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We always welcome highly motivated graduate students to join our group, please email Guanhua to discuss potential topics.
Precision Medicine, Causal Inference, Microbiome, Biomedical Informatics, Semiparametric Inference
Selected Awards
2023 Honorable Mention of Long COVID Computational Challenge (L3C), NIH (Award: $16,777)
2022 Winner of Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge (Task 1), BARDA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Award: $100,000)
2020 Winner of EHR DREAM Challenge for Patient Mortality, Sage Bionetworks
2016 Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) Theory and Method Discussion Paper
2015 Barry H. Margolin Dissertation Award, Department of Biostatistics, UNC
2015 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, International Biometric Society