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Australian statistician & academic
Jean Yee Hwa Yang is an Australian statistician known for her work on
variance reduction for
microarrays ,
[1] and for inferring proteins from
mass spectrometry data.
[2] Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the
University of Sydney .
[3]
Education and career
Yang studied at Killara High School between 1987 and 1990 and at Barker College between 1991 and 1992. She earned a bachelor's degree with first class honours and a University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1996, in mathematics and statistics.
After working for half a year at the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ,
[4] Yang then went to the
University of California, Berkeley , for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002. Her dissertation, "Statistical methods in the design and analysis of gene expression data from cDNA microarray experiment", was supervised by
Terry Speed .
[4]
[5]
Yang did postdoctoral research in
biostatistics and
bioinformatics with Mark R. Segal at the
University of California, San Francisco , where she became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005 she returned to the University of Sydney with a faculty position.
[4]
Recognition
In 2015, Yang was the winner of the
Moran Medal of the
Australian Academy of Science for her "significant contributions to the development of statistical methodology for analyzing molecular data arising in contemporary biomedical research".
[1]
Selected publications
Yang, Yee Hwa;
Speed, Terry (2002), "Design issues for cDNA microarray experiments", Nature Reviews Genetics , 3 (8): 579–588,
doi :
10.1038/nrg863 ,
PMID
12154381 ,
S2CID
260480
Dudoit, Sandrine ; Yang, Yee Hwa; Callow, Matthew J.;
Speed, Terence P. (2002), "Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in replicated cDNA microarray experiments", Statistica Sinica , 12 (1): 111–139,
JSTOR
24307038 ,
MR
1894191
Yang, Yee Hwa;
Dudoit, Sandrine ; Luu, Percy; Lin, David M.; Peng, Vivian;
Ngai, John ; Speed, Terence P. (2002), "Normalization for cDNA microarray data: a robust composite method addressing single and multiple slide systematic variation",
Nucleic Acids Research , 30 (4): e15,
doi :
10.1093/nar/30.4.e15 ,
PMC
100354 ,
PMID
11842121
Gentleman, Robert C. ; Carey, Vincent J.; Bates, Douglas M.; Bolstad, Ben;
Dettling, Marcel ;
Dudoit, Sandrine ; Ellis, Byron; Gautier, Laurent; Ge, Yongchao; Gentry, Jeff; Hornik, Kurt; Hothorn, Torsten; Huber, Wolfgang; Iacus, Stefano; Irizarry, Rafael; Leisch, Friedrich; Li, Cheng; Maechler, Martin; Rossini, Anthony J.; Sawitzki, Gunther; Smith, Colin; Smyth, Gordon; Tierney, Luke; Yang, Jean Y. H.; Zhang, Jianhua (2004), "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics",
Genome Biology , 5 (10): R80,
doi :
10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80 ,
PMC
545600 ,
PMID
15461798
References
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"2015 Moran Medal for research in statistics" , 2015 awardees , Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2018-02-27
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Mathematicians solving today's problems of systems biology , Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 21 March 2012
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Professor Jean Yang , School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, retrieved 2018-02-27
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c
Curriculum vitae (PDF) , 2013, retrieved 2018-02-27
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Jean Yang at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links