Prof. YANG Yi (楊屹)

Dr. Yang received a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota and a BS in Management Information Systems from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University. Prior to joining CityU, he served as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Columbia University under the supervision of Professor Iuliana Ionita-Laza. He is also a four-time recepient of the First Prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), China.

Dr. Yang's research focuses on variable selection methods for high-dimensional data using knockoff statistics, statistical machine learning, and Bayesian hierarchical models. He has developed a number of statistical methods to identify risk variants for human diseases in genetic data with complex hierarchical and correlation structures. His research is supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC) Early Career Scheme 21303323 (sole PI).

• Statistical genetics
• Knockoff statistics
• Bayesian statistics
• High-Dimensional Variable Selection

Education

2020        PhD in Biostatistics, University of Minnesota

2017        MS in Biostatistics, University of Minnesota

2011        BS in Management Information Systems, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University

Employment

2022 - Present       Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong

2020 - 2022           Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University

• Senate member for the University Senate of City University of Hong Kong
• Board member for the College of Science, City University of Hong Kong
• Seminar chair for the Biostatistics Seminar Series at the Department of Biostatistics, City University of Hong Kong