Jing Huang, Ph.D.

CareDx, Inc

Jing Huang received her B.A. in Statistics and Probability from Peking University and her Ph.D.in Statistics and M.S. in Epidemiology from Stanford University. She has been working in the biomedical field for over 20 years and her research interest focuses on statistical methodologies in clinical trial design, genomic analysis, and machine learning. She is currently the Chief Data & AI Officer at CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA)- The Transplant Company™. She is responsible for advancing CareDx’s efforts to integrate data science methods and AI into its customer facing products to enhance patient care, and its internal business operations to achieve improved efficiency and scalability. Jing has co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over ten thousand citations and is co-inventor of over 20 patent filings. Besides her daily work, she actively promotes data science through many of her volunteer activities: She is the founding president of DahShu, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting research and education in data science. She is currently the chapter representative of American Statistical Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (SFASA). In 2023, Jing was elected as lifetime Fellow of the American Statistical Association to recognize her outstanding contributions to the medical research community in the field of statistics; for numerous statistical innovations in genomic tests; and for exemplary leadership and community service to the profession.