Dr. Yong Chen is Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (DBEI), and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

Dr. Chen is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), International Statistical Institute (ISI), and the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (RSM).

He is the Founding Director of the Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He also founded and directs the Computing, Inference and Learning Lab (PennCIL) at the University of Pennsylvania, which focuses on integrating fundamental principles and wisdoms of statistics into quantitative methods for addressing key challenges in modern biomedical data.

Dr. Chen is an expert in the synthesis of evidence from multiple data sources, including systematic review and meta-analysis, distributed algorithms, and data integration, with applications in comparative effectiveness studies, health policy, and precision medicine. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, including 70 statistical methodological papers and 70 medical informatics papers. His work has been continuously funded by the NIH, AHRQ, and PCORI.

Dr. Chen serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and The Annals of Applied Statistics (AoAS), as a Statistical Consultant for NEJM-AI, as a Method Editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine, and as a Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Rare Diseases, among other roles.