Ying Guo

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Ying Guo is a Chinese biostatistician specializing in biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, and high-dimensional data analysis. [1] She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Emory University, where she directs the Emory Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics.

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Education and career

Guo graduated from Renmin University of China in 1998 and earned a Master's in statistics in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics at Emory University in 2004. [2] Her dissertation, Assessing Agreement for Survival Outcomes, was supervised by Amita Manatunga. [3]

After continuing to work at Emory as a research assistant professor, she was given a tenure-track position in 2006. Later, in 2014, she became acting director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics in 2014 and director in 2016. She became a full professor at Emory in 2019. [2] At Emory, her regular collaborators include two other female statisticians, Manatunga and Limin Peng. [4]

Recognition

Guo was the president of the Georgia chapter of the American Statistical Association for 2017–2018. [2] In 2018, the American Statistical Association listed her as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [5] She was also the elected chair of the ASA Statistics in Imaging program in 2021. [6]

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References

  1. McKenzie, Martha (May 11, 2017), "Finding mental disorders with math", Rollins Magazine, Emory University
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2020-01-19
  3. Ying Guo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. McKenzie, Martha (October 9, 2017), "Trio in biostatistics: 'Role models for us all'", Emory News Center, Emory University , retrieved 2020-01-19
  5. Emory Biostatisticians Receive Awards from the American Statistical Association, Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health, May 3, 2018
  6. "2021 ASA Election Results" (PDF).