Robert Chen, PhD

About

I am working toward becoming an anesthesiologist-scientist. My research interests are deep perioperative phenotyping and precision anesthesia.

Selected research

• Large-scale evaluation of five large language models in anesthesia decision-making for hip fracture surgery.
  Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2026.
• Genetic analyses of eight complex diseases using predicted continuous representations of disease.
  Cell Reports Methods, 2025.

All research

Projects

• GasBank, a free anesthesia learning platform.
• AnaSim, a Python anesthesia simulator.

Education

• I defended my PhD in Ron Do's lab in 2025, using machine learning and genomics to improve human health.
• From 2018-2022, I was a Vagelos MLS Scholar at Penn, where I completed a BA and MS in (bio)chemistry.