About

Wyliena (Lina) Guan is a PhD student in the Biostatistics department at UNC. She received an A.B. degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, a M.A. degree in Statistics at The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and a M.S. degree in Computer Science at Boston University. She has a solid clinical informatics background after having worked as a Biostatistician/Data Scientist for multiple healthcare/health insurance companies in the Boston area (e.g., Optum, Medicaid, Massachusetts General Hospital). Prior to working for CFAR, she was a predoctoral trainee on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences training program in Environmental Biostatistics. Her research interests include statistical genetics, bioinformatics, precision medicine, causal inference, time series missing data, machine learning, and clinical trial design. She assists Dr. Julie Dumond’s research on pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of HIV antiretrovirals in WIHS and MACS cohorts.