Alex Luedtke Bio | Harvard/UW Statistics, Biostatistics, and Health Care Policy

Alex Luedtke is a Professor of Health Care Policy and Affiliate in Statistics at Harvard University. From 2016 to 2025, he was a faculty member in the University of Washington's Department of Statistics and at 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.

Alex has received a number of honors for his work, including a COPSS Emerging Leader Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and AWS Machine Learning Research Award. His work has been supported by the NIH, NSF, PCORI, WHO, Netflix, and Amazon.

Dedicated to mentorship, Alex has supervised the completed dissertations of 8 PhD students. Several of these alumni now hold tenure-track positions, including at UC Berkeley and UCLA.

Alex received a ScB in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley.