CANSSI Ontario STAGE Welcomes PhD Trainee Yuan Tian

Yuan Tian recipient of CANSSI Ontario STAGE Trainee Program.  

CANSSI Ontario STAGE are pleased to announce Yuan Tian as the recipient of one of four CANSSI Ontario STAGE Trainees.  

Yuan is a PhD student in Philosophy in the Department of Statistial Sciences at University of Toronto, where she works under the supervision of Jun Young Park, Jesse Gronsbell and Daniel Felsky.  

 Yuan’s research interest is in statistical genetics, imaging genetics, and electronic health records (EHR). Yuan received her BSc in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University and her MA in Statistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.   

Prior to her doctoral studies, Yuan worked at a commercial genetic testing lab conducting research using both company genetic data and public databases, such as UK Biobank (UKB) data and The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Her research has been published is several peer-reviewed journal including Scientific Reports and Genetics in Medicine 

Yuan received this year’s award for the project: A novel mediation analysis pipeline to leverage high-dimensional and multimodal MRI as mediators in Alzheimer’s disease GWAS 

The goal of her project is to develop a novel mediation analysis pipeline to leverage high dimensional and multimodal MRI as mediators in GWAs by (1) identifying genetic risk factors mediated by brain functions or anatomy, (2) extend the method so that is fully utilized by summary statistics to improve reproducibility of the findings, and (3) develop an open source R package that will be made publicly available on GitHub.  

About

CANSSI Ontario STAGE (Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology) is a formal and comprehensive training program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, the first of its kind in Canada and one of few in the world. 

The program offers training and career development opportunities designed to cross-train individuals at the interface of genetics and population health sciences in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics—two disciplines currently facing a massive shortage of qualified individuals in Canada and elsewhere. 

The overall goal is to improve prevention and management of complex diseases by increasing capacity in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics research. 

CANSSI Ontario is the Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI). Its goal is to strengthen and enhance research and training in data science by developing programs that promote interdisciplinary research and enable multidisciplinary collaborations.

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