Shuo Chen is a Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC), University of Maryland, USA. He is also the Director of Biostatistics and Data Science at the Institute of Health Computing, UMSOM. He completed his Ph.D. at the Biostatistics Emory University in 2012. He is a biostatistician specializing in modeling complex structured biomedical data, including spatiotemporal dependence in neuroimaging, linkage disequilibrium in genetics, co-expression graph structures in omics, and the group-level graph edge inference. He was awarded the 2019 Avenir Award from the National Institutes of Health, USA.