Dr. Hudgens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is Director of the Biostatistics Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research. He has extensive experience in collaborative research and statistical methodology development related to studies of infectious diseases and vaccines, with an emphasis on HIV. Dr. Hudgens has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed papers in leading statistical journals such as Biometrika, Biometrics, JASA, and JRSS-B as well as top-tier biomedical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Nature, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for Biometrics and JASA. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and has taught multiple graduate level biostatistics courses at UNC. Dr. Hudgens is the principal investigator or co- investigator on several NIH NIAID grants to develop novel statistical methodologies for application to infectious disease studies. He has served as lead statistician on multiple clinical trials sponsored by the NIH and CDC and currently serves on an advisory board to the FDA.