Debbie Cheng

{{Short description|American biostatistician}}

Debbie Mein-Pay Cheng is an American biostatistician and a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. She researches applied statistics and clinical trial design.{{Cite web |title=Debbie Cheng {{!}} SPH |url=https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/debbie-cheng/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=www.bu.edu}} Cheng was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2023.{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2023 |title=Debbie Cheng Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association |url=https://www.bu.edu/hic/2023/06/25/hariri-institute-faculty-affiliate-debbie-cheng-sph-named-fellow-of-the-american-statistical-association/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Rafik Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering}} She earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Northwestern University. She received a Sc.D. in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her 1999 dissertation was titled, Analysis of Data from Eradication Studies of Chronic Viral Infections.{{Cite thesis |last=Cheng |first=Debbie M. |title=Analysis of Data from Eradication Studies of Chronic Viral Infections |date=1999 |degree=Sc.D. |publisher=Harvard University |oclc=78782772}} Stephen Lagakos was her doctoral advisor.