Research Areas

Causal inference, missing data


Educational Background

2005-2009 B.S., Zhejiang University

2009-2014 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania


Work Experience

2022-present Professor, YAU Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua University

2021-2022  Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2017-2021  Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2014-2017  Assistant Professor, University of Chicago


Honors and Awards

2013  American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigators Award

2014  ASA Section on Health Policy Statistics Student Paper Competition Award

2022  International Genetic Epidemiology Society Robert C. Elston Best Paper Award

                 

Publications See CV for the full list

Yang, F. and Small, D. S. (2016). ``Using post-outcome measurement information in censoring-by-death problems." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Volume 78, Number 1, pp. 299-318.

Yang, F., Wang, J., the GTEx Consortium, Pierce, B. L, and Chen, L. S. (2017). ``Identifying cis-mediators for trans-eQTLs across many human tissues using genomic mediation analysis." Genome Research, Volume 27, pp. 1859-1871.

Gleason, K. J. #, Yang, F. #, Pierce, B. L., He, X., and Chen, L. S. (2020). ``Primo: integration of multiple GWAS and omics QTL summary statistics for elucidation of molecular mechanisms of trait-associated SNPs and detection of pleiotropy in complex traits.'' Genome Biology, Volume 21, 236.

Zuo, S., Ghosh, D., Ding, P.*, and Yang, F.* (2024) “Mediation analysis with the mediator and outcome missing not at random” Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear.