Bernard Y. Renard is a professor for data analytics and computational statistics and vice-dean at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) with co-appointments at the Digital Engineering Department of the University of Potsdam, the Windreich Department for AI and Human Health at Mount Sinai, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Free University of Berlin, and the International Max Planck Research School on Biology and Computing.

His research interests are in omics data science, applying statistical, algorithmic and machine learning approaches. He is particularly interested in applications in infectious disease and public health. A biostatistician and computer scientist by training, Renard holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg/Germany and was a long-term visiting researcher at ETH Zurich and Harvard Medical School.

His research was awarded the German Life Science Award in 2015. He currently serves on scientific advisory boards at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the German Center for Disease Control (Robert Koch Institute) and is co-founder of spin-offs in the field of rapid diagnostics.