PhD Student, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU.

nyunlong at sfu dot ca

Research interests

Education

2014-Present Simon Fraser University, Statistics, supervised by Dr Jiguo Cao

2011-2013 University of British Columbia, Biostatistics, supervised by Professor Paul Gustafson

2007-2011 Nankai University, Statistics

Awards

2017 Randy Sitter Annual Graduate Scholarship, SFU.

2016-2018 Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral(PGS-D), NSERC

2014-2015 Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award, SFU

2013 SSC Case Study Competition Winner

Publications

Talks

  • Supervised Functional Principal Component Analysis, JSM 2016, Chicago.

  • Estimating Dynamic Gene Regulation Network, JSM 2015, Seattle.

  • Systems Genetics Approach Unravels the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Lung Function Variation and Uncovers Novel Therapeutic Targets for COPD, 2015 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

  • Integrative Genomics Approach to Unravel the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Lung Function Measures, 2014 Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting, Victoria, BC.

  • Exploring Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Environmental Noise in Toronto Winner of the case study competition SSC, 2013, Edmonton. Oral and Poster

Professional experience

2013.10-Present Statistitian, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver

Teaching

  • STAT 430, Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments. Professor Derek Bingham, 2014 Fall and 2015 Fall

  • STAT 475/675, Applied Discrete Data Analysis. Professor Joan Hu, 2015 Spring

  • STAT 330, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics. Professor LiangLiang Wang, 2015 Summer

  • STAT 350, Linear Models in Applied Statistics. Professor Jiguo Cao, 2016 Spring