The BSF is led by Jun Ying, Ph.D., who joined UAMS on July 1 as professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. Researchers are welcome to reach out to Dr. Ying at jying@uams.edu with any questions about the BSF.
Dr. Ying’s research interests include predictive statistical models and classification methods, reliability and accuracy of diagnostic testing, repeated measurements and longitudinal data analysis, and hierarchical Bayesian models and computation. He has 121 peer-reviewed publications in medical research. In the past five years, he was funded by 10 NIH grants serving as a co-investigator and co-principal investigator. In addition, he collaborated with cancer clinicians and submitted more than a dozen investigator-initiated trials in cancer research.
Dr. Ying previously served as a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, where he was on faculty for more than 14 years. During his tenure at UC, he also served as the in-house statistician of hematology oncology, a member of the UC Cancer Institute Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and a member of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design of UC’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training.
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