Dr. Wu is the Betty Wheless Trotter Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public Health (SPH) and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Dr. Wu is also Founding Director of the Center for Big Data in Health Sciences at UTHealth SPH. Dr. Wu was Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) before he joined UTHealth in 2015. Wu has been an educator at multiple prestigious universities including University of Rochester, Harvard University and the University of Memphis. Wu also worked with the Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation as a senior statistician with the Statistical Data Analysis Center (SDAC) for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), which is a part of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Before coming to UTHealth, Dr. Wu worked with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Wu joined the university’s biostatistics and computational biology department as a professor in 2003 and was named as dean’s professor in 2012 in recognition of his contribution in helping to shape the life of the institution in a significant way. In 2004, Dr. Wu became the founding director for the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Division of Biomedical Modeling & Informatics. He also held that title for the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics and Experimental Mathematics, which he earned in 2012.

Dr. Wu is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Statistical Association, in which Wu is also a fellow.

Education & Training

Education

• PhD, Statistics, 1994, Florida State University
• MS, Statistics, 1991, Florida State University
• MS, Engineering, 1987, National University of Defense Technology (China)
• BS, Engineering, 1984,  National University of Defense Technology (China)

Area of Expertise

• Biostatistics
• Computational Biology
• Computational Modeling
• Bioinformatics Tools