Alex Luedtke, PhD

Alex Luedtke is a statistician in Harvard Medical School's Department of Health Care Policy. From 2016 to 2025, he was a faculty member in the University of Washington's Department of Statistics and Fred Hutch's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division. He develops statistical methods to address scientific questions, particularly those arising in health research. His research can be broadly categorized into three overlapping areas: causal machine learning, the algorithmic construction of optimal statistical procedures, and nonparametric efficient inference. He also applies these methods as part of multidisciplinary teams in mental health and infectious disease research.

For his work, Alex has been awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, AWS Machine Learning Research Award, and Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award.

Alex has supervised the completed dissertations of 8 PhD students, and is currently supervising several more.

Alex received his ScB in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley. For his dissertation, he was awarded the Extraordinary Student Research Award from the Group in Biostatistics and the Lehmann Citation from the Department of Statistics.

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