Overview
Dr. Wang works on developing data-driven approaches to uncover complex relationships between biomarkers, clinical markers, environmental variables and health outcomes to assist studies of disease etiology, diagnostic capabilities and optimal treatments. Her methodological interests include machine learning, analytics for precision medicine, network analysis, and novel design and analysis of clinical trials and electronic health records. Her substantive applied research area includes psychiatric disorders and neurological disorders.
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Biostatistics (In Psychiatry)
Gender
- Female
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BA, 2001 Department of Statistics, Columbia University
- PhD, 2005 Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Committees, Societies, Councils
Fellow, American Statistical Association
Honors & Awards
Calderone Research Prize for Junior Faculty, 2006Diversity Fellowship, 2009Tow Leadership Scholar, 2015
Research
Research Interests
- Biostatistical Methods
Selected Publications
Wang Y, Ottman R, and Rabinowitz D A Method for Estimating Penetrance from Families Sampled for Linkage Analysis. Biometrics 62 1081-1088 2006
Yip N, Kawut SM, Lederer DJ, Wilt JS, Wang Y, Sternberg D, D'Ovidio
F, Sonett JR, Arcasoy SM Immunoglobulin G Levels Before and
After Lung Transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173(8) 917-921 2006
Clark LN, Afridi S, Karlins E, Wang Y, Mejia-Santana H, Harris J,
Louis ED, Cote LJ, Andrews H, Fahn S, Waters C, Ford B, Frucht S,
Ottman R, and Marder K Case-Control Study of the Parkin Gene in Early Onset PD. Archives of Neurology 63(4) 548-552 2006
Clark LN, Wang Y, Karlins E, Saito L, Mejia-Santana H, Harris J,
Louis ED, Cote LJ, Andrews H, Fahn S, Waters C, Ford B, Frucht S,
Ottman R, and Marder K Frequency of LRRK2 Mutations in Early- and Late-onset Parkinson disease. Neurology 67(10) 1786-1791 2006
Yuanjia Wang, Yixin Fang, and Man Jin A Ridge Penalized
Principal-Components Approach Based on Heritability for
High-dimensional Data. Human Heredity To appear
Wang Y, Clark LN, Marder K, and Rabinowitz D Non-parametric
Estimation of Genotype-specific Age-at-onset Distributions From Censored Kin-cohort Data. Biometrika To appear