Alex Luedtke Bio | Harvard/UW Statistics, Biostatistics, and Health Care Policy
Biography
Alex Luedtke is a Professor of Health Care Policy and Affiliate in Statistics at Harvard University, where he develops methods at the intersection of semiparametrics, causal inference, and machine learning. His contributions have been recognized with a COPSS Emerging Leader Award and an NIH Director's New Innovator Award.
Alex Luedtke is a Professor of Health Care Policy and Affiliate in Statistics at Harvard University. Previously, he held faculty appointments in Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch.
Alex works at the intersection of semiparametrics, causal inference, and machine learning. Much of his work leverages computational power—be it through automatic differentiation, deep learning, or game theory—to automate the construction of efficient statistical procedures. He applies these methods as part of multidisciplinary teams to improve decision-making in mental health and infectious disease research.
Selected honors include a COPSS Emerging Leader Award, NIH Director's New Innovator Award, and AWS Machine Learning Research Award. His work has been supported by NIH, NSF, PCORI, WHO, Netflix, and Amazon.
As a mentor, Alex has supervised the completed dissertations of 8 PhD students, several of whom now hold tenure-track positions in statistics and biostatistics.
Alex received a PhD in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley and an ScB in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.