Yi Yang

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

Openings for Ph.D. students in Fall 2023

News

• 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

• Mar 2022: Invited talk Knockoff statistics for variable selection in genetic association studies with trio design at City University of Hong Kong School of Data Science

• Dec 2021: Invited talk Bayesian hierarchical models and knockoff statistics for variable selection at the Beijing Normal University Young Scholars Forum

• 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

• May 2021: Contributed talk Knockoff statistics and applications to genome-wide association studies at the Statistical Genetics Journal Club of Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• 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