Dr. Shouhao Zhou is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Penn State College of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Biostatistics PhD Program. He received BS in Probability and Statistics (2002) and Economics (2002) from Peking University, and PhD in Statistics (2011) from Columbia University. 

Motivated by years of experience as a statistical consultant for medical sciences and social sciences, his research interest is to explore statistical methodology and provide tailored solutions for important real-life implications. He has co-investigated over 20 DoD, NIH/NCI, and PCORI funded grants, and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed statistical methodology and medical collaboration papers. His theoretical discoveries won the American Statistical Association (ASA) SBSS Student Paper Award and the Penn State Early Career Research Award, while translational work received the Career Enhancement Award from the National Cancer Institute Joe Moakley Leukemia SPORE. He has actively served in the statistical community, including as President of the ASA Harrisburg Chapter in 2022-2024. Prior to joining Penn State, he was an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he also served as co-leader of Biostatistics Core at Lymphoma SPORE, and lead statistician/co-investigator of GBM and B-cell lymphoma moonshot programs. 

His primary research focuses on the development of statistical methods for Bayesian learning and model evaluation, clinical trial design, dose-response estimation and synergism quantification, evidence synthesis and meta-analysis, incomplete data problems, and inter-rater agreement/reliability assessment, with preclinical and clinical applications in pediatric cancer, aging, immunotherapy, hematologic malignancy, glioma, imaging and medical physics, among many other biomedical fields.