He received Sc.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University. He has rich experience in conducting statistical methodological research, planning large epidemiological studies, running data management for randomized clinical trials and conducting applied data analysis. Dr. Lu Tian’s current research interest is in developing statistical methods in personalized medicine, causal inference, survival analysis and high throughput data analysis. The proposed future study requires comprehensive statistical input on dimension reduction and large scale statistical inferences.