Peihua Qiu

Dr. Peihua Qiu is a Dean’s Professor and the Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1996. Following his doctoral training, he served as a senior research consulting statistician at the Biostatistics Center of The Ohio State University from 1996 to 1998. He then joined the University of Minnesota, where he held faculty positions in the School of Statistics as Assistant Professor (1998–2002), Associate Professor (2002–2007), and Full Professor (2007–2013). In 2013, Dr. Qiu was recruited to the University of Florida to establish and lead its new Department of Biostatistics.

Dr. Qiu has made substantial contributions to the fields of jump regression analysis, image processing, statistical process control, survival analysis, dynamic disease screening, and spatio-temporal disease surveillance. To date, he has authored three books and published over 185 peer-reviewed research articles in these areas. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Dr. Qiu has served as an associate editor for several leading statistical journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, and Technometrics. He was Editor-in-Chief of Technometrics, a flagship journal in statistics, from 2014 to 2016. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, he received the prestigious Shewhart Medal from the American Society for Quality in 2024.