Biography
Ping Hu, Sc.D., is a Mathematical Statistician in the Biometry Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Dr. Hu provides statistical support on DCP initiatives related to multicancer detection studies; statistical methods and machine learning techniques for the design and analysis of cancer screening trials; cancer risk prediction and assessment; and survival analysis.
Dr. Hu also provides statistical reviews of DCP protocols and concepts, especially those related to cancer screening. Dr. Hu has been served as a statistician on the lung component of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial and contributed to the design of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), with a focus on sample size and power estimation.
Dr. Hu received a M.S. in health policy and management and a Sc.D. in biostatistics from Harvard University and completed her post-doctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University. She worked as a statistician for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) on cancer clinical trials at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute both during her doctoral program, and as a post-doctoral fellow. Prior to joining NCI, she was an Assistant Professor at Brown University.