Yi Yang

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Department of Data Science
City University of Hong Kong

May 2024: Published paper KnockoffHybrid: A knockoff framework for hybrid analysis of trio and population designs in genome-wide association studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics
Jul 2023: Awarded the Early Career Scheme (ECS, 杰出青年学者计划) grant as PI by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Oct 2022: Published paper KnockoffTrio: A knockoff framework for the identification of putative causal variants in genome-wide association studies with trio design in the American Journal of Human Genetics
Jun 2022: Invited talk KnockoffTrio: Variable selection in genetic association studies with trio design at Columbia University Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics and Institute for Genomic Medicine

Nov 2021: Published paper A Bayesian hierarchically structured prior for gene-based association testing with multiple traits in genome-wide association studies in Genetic Epidemiology

Feb 2021: Published paper A Bayesian hierarchically structured prior for rare‐variant association testing in Genetic Epidemiology
May 2020: Awarded Jacob E. Bearman student achievement award in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota
Mar 2020: Published paper A Bayesian hierarchical variable selection prior for pathway‐based GWAS using summary statistics in Statistics in Medicine