Yi Yang

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
City University of Hong Kong

Oct 2025: Published paper Knockoff-ML: A knockoff machine learning framework for controlled variable selection and risk stratification in electronic health record data in npj Digital Medicine
May 2024: Published paper KnockoffHybrid: A knockoff framework for hybrid analysis of trio and population designs in genome-wide association studies in 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 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

Mar 2020: Published paper A Bayesian hierarchical variable selection prior for pathway‐based GWAS using summary statistics in Statistics in Medicine