Dr. Cyrus Mehta, is the President and Co-founder of Cytel Inc., and Adjunt Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University.nnDr. Mehta earned his B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1967, his S.M. degree in Management Science and his PhD in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and 1973 respectively. nnIn 1973, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught courses in Statistics and Statistical Decision Theory. In 1977, Dr. Mehta left the University of Pittsburgh and joined Harvard School of Public Health as Post Doctoral Fellow in Biostatistics and worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. In 1979, he joined the faculty at Harvard TC Chan School of Public Health as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Biostatistics. He also served as a clinical trials Statistician for major oncology trials sponsored by the US National Cancer Institute.