Jean Yang
Jean Yang is a Professor of Statistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Sydney. She is currently the Director of the Sydney Precision Data Science and an NHRMC Investigator Leadership fellow. Her research stands at the interface between medicine and methodology development and centres on the development of methods and the application of statistics to problems in -omics and biomedical research. Recently, much of her research has focused on integrating multiple biotechnologies with clinical data to develop approaches and methodologies in statistical machine learning and network analysis. In 2022, she was elected a Senior Fellow of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society. She was awarded the 2015 Moran Medal in statistics from the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of her work on developing methods for molecular data arising in cutting-edge biomedical research. As a statistical data scientist who works in the interface of statistics, biomedicine, and health, she enjoys developing novel methods with translational potential in a collaborative environment, working closely with investigators from diverse backgrounds.
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