Dr. Cen has extensive research experience in databases and statistics with applications in imaging studies and clinical trials. He is the statistical advisor of the BMJ-Heart Editorial Board and the in-house lead biostatistician for the Dept. of Neurology and Dept. of Radiology at USC Keck School of Medicine. Currently, he serves as the lead statistician of two large NIH-funded studies: Low-Cost Portable Computer-Aided Diagnosis Ultrasound System for Breast Cancer Triage in Low to Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) Environments, and Human Connectomes for Low Vision, Blindness, and Sight Restoration.
He also served as the co-director of the Data Management and Analysis Center (DMAC) for two NIH-funded multi-center landmark phase III clinical trials in stroke rehabilitation history – Locomotor Experience Applied Post-Stroke (LEAPS) Trial and Interdisciplinary Comprehensive Arm Rehabilitation Evaluation Stroke Initiative (I-CARE) Trial. He is also the director of Data Management and Informatics core for a large California State-funded dental health service project (USC-CHAMP) at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California.