Chuan Hong
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Chuan Hong, PhD, joins Duke as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics effective August 1. She comes to the Duke from Harvard Medical School, where she served as an Instructor of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Hong received her PhD degree in Biostatistics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. After that, she obtained postdoctoral trainings in Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health from 2016 to 2018, and in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School from 2018 to 2019.

Current Research Interests

Dr. Hong’s area of excellence is data science with a unique combination of expertise in both biostatistics and biomedical informatics. Her research is centered on the development of novel statistical and machine learning methods for predictive analytics and precision medicine using large-scale biomedical data with three primary focuses: learning with complex and imperfect outcomes from EHR; automated data harmonization and clinical knowledge extraction; efficient and robust federated learning and transfer learning methods. 

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