Ying Lu, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science, and by courtesy of the Departement of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Innovative Study Design, the Biostatistics Core of the Stanford Cancer Institute, and BERD in the Stanford Spectrum. Before his current position, he was the director of VA Cooperative Studies Program Palo Alto Coordinating Center (2009-2016) and a Professor of Biostatistics and Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco (1994-2009). His research areas are biostatistics methodology and applications in clinical trials, statistical evaluation of medical diagnostic tests, and medical decision making. He serves as the biostatistical associate Editor for JCO Precision Oncology and co-editor of the Cancer Research Section of the New England Journal of Statistics and Data Science. Dr. Lu is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA).