Zhen Lu

I am a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Sun Yat-sen University. My work combines clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, machine learning, comparative effectiveness research, and statistical genetics to address questions in infectious diseases, neurosyphilis, human papillomavirus infection, and cervical cancer prevention.

My representative work has appeared in journals including eClinicalMedicine, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, iScience, Journal of Medical Virology, and JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. I also hold a patent for a non-therapeutic clinical diagnosis system for neurological syphilis based on machine learning (LU504466, rank 1/1).

Beyond journal articles, I maintain open-source resources for biostatistics and omics data visualization, including omixvizpy, omixVizR, and lulab.utils. I founded Biostat Weekly, a weekly newsletter for new research, tools, and resources in biostatistics, and maintain educational content through the WeChat official account Lu Zhen Biostatistics.