Dr. Naiji Lu received his PhD in Mathematics from University of Rochester in 2007 and subsequently worked in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology. As an Assistant Professor, he collaborated with Biologists, Psychiatrists, Computer Scientists and experts in other areas on numerous projects. Dr. Lu has extensive experience in the areas of longitudinal data analysis, distribution-free models, robust statistics, causal inference, structural equation models, survey data analysis, social network data analysis and their applications to large clinical trials and biomedical research.