Qi Long, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania the Perelman School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Science and in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School. He is also Vice Chair of Faculty Professional Development in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Associate Director of the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and the inaugural Associate Director for Quantitative Data Science of the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn. His research program marries innovative statistical, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) research with impactful biomedical research. His research has appeared in leading statistical journals such as Annals of Statistics (AoS) and Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), leading AI/ML conferences such as ICML and NeurIPS, and high-impact biomedical journals such as Nature Medicine and JAMA Oncology,. Dr. Long’s methodological research has been supported by NIH, PCORI, NSF and ARPA-H. In addition, Dr. Long has provided leadership in biomedical research including leading coordinating center for large-scale research networks and multi-site clinical studies. He currently co-directs the Coordinating Center for the Premedical Cancer Immunotherapy Network for Canine Trials (PRECINCT), part of NCI’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
Dr. Long is a Senior Editor for Cancer Research, and Executive Editor for Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal. Dr. Long is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).