Lu Tian is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He completed his M.S. in Mathematics at Nankai University, and he received a Sc.D. in Biostatistics at Harvard University. He has been awarded the Wangkechang Scholarship from 1991–1998, the Howard Hughes Fellowship from 1999–2002, the Robert B. Reed Award for Excellency in Biostatistics in 2000, and the Distinction in Teaching Award from 2000–2002.