{"id":2759,"date":"2018-09-15T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bigs2\/?page_id=2759"},"modified":"2024-01-12T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T11:39:35","slug":"ying-yuan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bigs2\/people\/alumni\/ying-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ying Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content1\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"right\">\n<div id=\"right_text\">\n<div class=\"box\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.21731123388582%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bigs2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/822\/2018\/09\/Yuan_Ying.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bigs2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/822\/2018\/09\/Yuan_Ying.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bigs2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/822\/2018\/09\/Yuan_Ying-150x134.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.78268876611418%\"><b>Post Doctoral Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Biostatistics<\/p>\n<p>Email: yingy at email dot unc dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Education<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ph. D. in Statistics at\u00a0University of North Carolina &#8211; Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC August 2011<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Positive-Definite Matrices<\/li>\n<li>Advisor: Drs. Hongtu Zhu and J.S. Marron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>M. S. in Applied Mathematics at\u00a0Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong University, Xi&#8217;an, Shanxi,China<\/p>\n<p>B. S. in Mathematics at\u00a0Xinyang Teachers&#8217; College, Xinyang, Henan, China<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Research Interests<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Statistical analysis of medical imaging data<\/p>\n<p>genome-wide association studies<\/p>\n<p>clinical trials<\/p>\n<p>functional data analysis<\/p>\n<p>data mining<\/p>\n<p>and Bayesian statistics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Honors &amp; Awards<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Student Paper Awards, 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Published Papers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Sy-Miin Chow, Niansheng Tang, <b>Ying Yuan<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>2. <b> Ying Yuan<\/b>, Hongtu Zhu, Joseph G. Ibrahim, Weili Lin, B. S. Peterson (2008).\u00a0A note on the validity of statistical bootstrapping for estimating the uncertainty\u00a0of tensor parameters in diffusion tensor images . IEEE Transactions on Medical\u00a0Imaging, 27(10), 1506-1514.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Papers Submitted\/Under Revision<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. <b> Ying Yuan<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>2. <b> Ying Yuan<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>3. Wei Gao, <b>Ying Yuan<\/b>, Hongtu Zhu, K. S. Giovanello, J. K. Smith, J. H. Gilmore, Weili Lin (2010). Genetic and environmental influence on brain&#8217;s functional connectivity from Neonates to 2-year-olds . In submission.<\/p>\n<p>4. Lilian Calderon-Garciduenas, Ricardo Torres-Jardon, Hongtu Zhu, Amedeo DAngiulli, Donna Smith, Norma Osnaya, <b>Ying Yuan<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>5. Villarreal-Calderon R, Dale G, Delgado-Chavez R, Torres-Jardon R, Zhu H, <b>Yuan Y<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p><b>Working Papers<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Genome-wide Association Study of Brain-Wide Imaging Phenotypes in the ADNI Cohort.<\/p>\n<p>2. <b>Ying Yuan<\/b>, Hongtu Zhu, J. S. Marron. Varying coefficient model for SPD matrix-valued functional data under the Riemannian metric.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- footer ends--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post Doctoral Research Associate Biostatistics Email: yingy at email dot unc dot edu &nbsp; Education Ph. D. in Statistics at\u00a0University of North Carolina &#8211; Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC August 2011 Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Positive-Definite Matrices Advisor: Drs. Hongtu Zhu and J.S. Marron M. 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