Shu Xu, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Global Public Health, New York University. She earned a B.S. from East China Normal University and a PhD in Quantitative Psychology from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Xu has served as an investigator on more than ten federally or locally funded research projects. She has authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Her research focuses on the evaluation and application of advanced statistical methods in causal inference, longitudinal data analysis, and machine learning.