Faculty

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Graduate Group Affiliations

Managerial Science and Applied Economics

Contact information

Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
3600 Civic Center Blvd.
Rm 5W 105C
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Fax: 215-573-4865

Email:
ett@wharton.upenn.edu

Education:
BS (Applied Mathematics)
Yale University, 1999.
PhD (Biostatistics)
Harvard University, 2006.

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Selected Publications

Lee Y, Dobriban E, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Finding Distributions that Differ, with False Discovery Rate Control. Biometrika 113(2): asag025, April 2026.

Yu M, Liu TH, Li KQ, Jewell N, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Small D, Shi X, Wang B: Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution. Epidemiology 37(2): 228-236, Mar 2026 Notes: Epub 2025 Dec 29.

Magosi LE, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Novitsky V, Pretorius Holme M, Moore J, Bachanas P, Lebelonyane R, Fraser C, Moyo S, Hurwitz KE, Gaolathe T, Goyal R, Makhema J, Lockman S, Essex M, De Gruttola V, Lipsitch M: Unpacking sources of transmission in HIV prevention trials with deep-sequence pathogen data. Nature Communications 17(1): 3935, Mar 2026 Notes: DOI.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70203-x. Epub ahead of print March 2026.

Shi X, Li KQ, Yu M, Miao W, Kuchibhotla AK, Hu M, & Tchetgen Tchetgen E: Theory for Identification and Inference with Synthetic Controls: A Proximal Causal Inference Framework. Journal of the American Statistical Association Page: 1-23, Mar 2026 Notes: DOI.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2639734 Epub 2026.

Park C, Stensrud MJ, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Proximal causal inference for conditional separable effects. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology Page: qkag051, Mar 2026 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkag051.

Boyer CB, Li KQ, Shi X, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Identification and Estimation of Vaccine Effectiveness in the Test-Negative Design Under Equi-confounding. Epidemiology 37(1): 77-87, Jan 2026.

Zhang J, Tchetgen Tchetgen E: On Identification of Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Proxies of Hidden Confounders. Observational Studies 12: 1-15, Jan 2026 Notes: DOI:10.1353/obs.2026.a985142.

Park C, Tchetgen Tchetgen E: A Nonparametric Framework for Universal Difference-in-Differences. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society In Press 2026.

Sun J, Schaubel D, Tchetgen Tchetgen E: Beyond Fixed Restriction Time: Adaptive Restricted Mean Survival Time Methods in Clinical Trials. Biometrika In Press 2026.

Farina R, Kuchibhotla Arun, Tchetgen E: Doubly Robust and Efficient Calibration of Prediction Sets for Censored Time-to-Event Outcomes. Biometrika In Press 2026.