George Chien-cheng Tseng ScD

George Chien-Cheng Tseng is a Biostatistician and Professor of Biostatistics, Computational & Systems Biology and Human Genetics at University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Tseng studied Mathematics at Bachelor of Science (1997) and Master of Science (1999) level, both at the National Taiwan University. He gained his ScD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2003, under the supervision of Wing Hung Wong.

Tseng is leading a research group of Bioinformatics and Statistical learning at the University of Pittsburgh. His group focuses on developing Meta-analysis and Machine learning tools to analyze Omics data, which uses resampling methods and Bayesian statistics extensively. Tseng has been awarded a silver medal prize in International Mathematical Olympiad in 1993. He has been awarded Pittsburgh Statistician of the Year in 2017 by Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Statistics Association. He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017. He is selected as one of the recipients of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019.