Ying Yuan

Post Doctoral Research Associate
Biostatistics

Email: yingy at email dot unc dot edu

Education

Ph. D. in Statistics

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC August 2011

Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Positive-Definite Matrices

Advisor: Drs. Hongtu Zhu and J.S. Marron

M. S. in Applied Mathematics

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi,China

B. S. in Mathematics

Xinyang Teachers' College, Xinyang, Henan, China

Research Interests

Statistical analysis of medical imaging data

genome-wide association studies

clinical trials

functional data analysis

data mining

and Bayesian statistics

Honors & Awards

ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Student Paper Awards, 2011

Published Papers

1. Sy-Miin Chow, Niansheng Tang, Ying Yuan, Xinyuan Song, Hongtu Zhu (2011). Bayesian estimation of semiparametric nonlinear dynamic factor analysis models using the Dirichlet process prior . British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 64(1), 69-106.

2. Ying Yuan, Hongtu Zhu, Joseph G. Ibrahim, Weili Lin, B. S. Peterson (2008). A note on the validity of statistical bootstrapping for estimating the uncertainty of tensor parameters in diffusion tensor images . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 27(10), 1506-1514.

Papers Submitted/Under Revision

1. Ying Yuan, Hongtu Zhu, M. Stynerc, John H. Gilmore, J. S. Marron (2010). Varying coefficient model for modeling diffusion tensors along white matter bundles . The Annals of Applied Statistics, under revision.

2. Ying Yuan, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, J. S. Marron (2010). Local polynomial regression for SPD matrices . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), under revision.

3. Wei Gao, Ying Yuan, Hongtu Zhu, K. S. Giovanello, J. K. Smith, J. H. Gilmore, Weili Lin (2010). Genetic and environmental influence on brain's functional connectivity from Neonates to 2-year-olds . In submission.

4. Lilian Calderon-Garciduenas, Ricardo Torres-Jardon, Hongtu Zhu, Amedeo DAngiulli, Donna Smith, Norma Osnaya, Ying Yuan, Michael Kavanaugh, Janet Cross. Frontal combustion-associated metals, base excision DNA repair and neuro-inflammation in young people exposed to urban air pollution . Submitted to Journal of Toxicology.

5. Villarreal-Calderon R, Dale G, Delgado-Chavez R, Torres-Jardon R, Zhu H, Yuan Y, Herritt L, Gonzalez-Maciel A, Reynoso-Robles R, Cross J, Calderon-Garciduenas L. Inflammation as a link between brain and heart damage in young urbanites exposed to air pollution . Submitted to Journal of Toxicology.

Working Papers

1. Genome-wide Association Study of Brain-Wide Imaging Phenotypes in the ADNI Cohort.

2. Ying Yuan, Hongtu Zhu, J. S. Marron. Varying coefficient model for SPD matrix-valued functional data under the Riemannian metric .