Kai Yu, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Kai Yu, Ph.D.
| Organization: | National Cancer InstituteDivision of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Biostatistics Branch |
| Address: | Executive Plaza SouthRoom 8050 |
| Phone: | 301-594-7206 |
| Fax: | 301-402-0081 |
| E-mail: | yuka@mail.nih.gov |
- Biography
- Research Interests
- Software
- NCI Publications (text and abstracts from the DCEG publications database)
- Publications in PubMed
Biography
Dr. Yu received a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. He had postdoctoral training in statistical genetics at Stanford University. He worked as a statistical geneticist at a biopharmaceutical company before becoming a Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined NCI in 2005 as a tenure-track investigator. He received the NIH merit award (2009)
Research Interests
- Statistical methods for genetic epidemiology studies
- Tree-based models and applications in molecular epidemiology studies
- MCMC algorithms and applications in genetic studies
- Population genetics
Software:
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