Chengcheng Hu, Ph.D. M.S. is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Director of Biostatistics at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health-Phoenix. He is also Director of the Biometry Core on the Chemoprevention of Skin Cancer Project at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and served as Co-Director of the Pattern Analysis and Computational Biology Core on the Targets to Therapeutics in Pancreatic Cancer Project from 2009 to 2010. Hu joined the UA College of Public Health in 2008. Prior to this he was an assistant professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2002 to 2008. While at Harvard, he also served as senior statistician in the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Grou(IMPAACT) Hu has worked on multiple federal grants in a broad range of areas including cancer, occupational health, HIV/AIDS, and aging. He has extensive experience in collaborative research, conducting methodological research in the areas of survival analysis, longitudinal data, high-dimensional data, and measurement error. His current methodological interest, arising from studies of viral and human genetics and biomarkers, is to develoinnovative methods to investigate the relationshibetween high-dimensional information and longitudinal outcomes or survival endpoints. Hu received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington and a M.A. in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.