Jason Xu

Co-Investigator, Research Project 3, MISM
Assoc. Professor in Biostatistics, UCLA

Dr. Jason Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he was a primary faculty in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University, where he held courtesy appointments in the departments of  Biostatistics/Bioinformatics. Prior to his time at Duke, Jason was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Kenneth Lange. He earned his PhD at University of Washington as an NDSEG Fellow, where his PhD was advised by Volodymyr Minin. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Xu received his B.S in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2012, where he was mentored by Kevin Lin and William Vélez.