Yajun Mei
Yajun Mei
Professor of Biostatistics
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Professional overview
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Yajun Mei is a Professor of Biostatistics at NYU/GPH, starting from July 1, 2024. He received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2003. He was a Postdoc in Biostatistics in the renowned Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, WA during 2003 and 2005. Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Mei was an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA for 18 years from 2006 to 2024, and had been a co-director of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Study Design (BERD) of Georgia CTSA since 2018.
Dr. Mei’s research interests are statistics, machine learning, and data science, and their applications in biomedical science and public health, particularly, streaming data analysis, sequential decision/design, change-point problems, precision/personalized medicine, hot-spots detection for infectious diseases, longitudinal data analysis, bioinformatics, and clinical trials. His work has received several recognitions including Abraham Wald Prizes in Sequential Analysis in both 2009 and 2024, NSF CAREER Award in 2010, an elected Fellow of American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2023, and multiple best paper awards.
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Education
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BS, Mathematics, Peking UniversityPhD, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
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Honors and awards
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Fellow of American Statistical Association (2023)Star Research Achievement Award, 2021 Virtual Critical Care Congress (2021)Best Paper Competition Award, Quality, Statistics & Reliability of INFORMS (2020)Bronze Snapshot Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine (2019)NSF Career AwardThank a Teacher Certificate, Center for Teaching and Learning (2011201220162020202120222023)Abraham Wald Prize (2009)Best Paper Award, 11th International Conference on Information Fusion (2008)New Researcher Fellow, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (2005)Fred Hutchinson SPAC Travel Award to attend 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN (2005)Travel Award to 8th New Researchers Conference, Minneapolis, MN (2005)Travel Award to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, IL (2004)Travel Award to IPAM workshop on inverse problem, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (2003)Fred Hutchinson SPAC Course Scholarship (2003)Travel Award to the SAMSI workshop on inverse problem, Research Triangular Park, NC (2002)
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Publications
Publications
Nonparametric monitoring of multivariate data via KNN learning
Failed retrieving data.Optimum Multi-Stream Sequential Change-Point Detection with Sampling Control
Failed retrieving data.Quantitation of lymphatic transport mechanism and barrier influences on lymph node-resident leukocyte access to lymph-borne macromolecules and drug delivery systems
Failed retrieving data.Routine Use of Contrast on Admission Transthoracic Echocardiography for Heart Failure Reduces the Rate of Repeat Echocardiography during Index Admission
Failed retrieving data.Single and multiple change-point detection with differential privacy
Failed retrieving data.Glucose Variability as Measured by Inter-measurement Percentage Change is Predictive of In-patient Mortality in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Failed retrieving data.Improved performance properties of the CISPRT algorithm for distributed sequential detection
Failed retrieving data.Rapid detection of hot-spot by tensor decomposition with application to weekly gonorrhea data
Failed retrieving data.Second-Order Asymptotically Optimal Change-point Detection Algorithm with Sampling Control
Failed retrieving data.Wavelet-Based Robust Estimation of Hurst Exponent with Application in Visual Impairment Classification
Failed retrieving data.Adaptive Online Monitoring of the Ising model
Failed retrieving data.Optimal Stopping for Interval Estimation in Bernoulli Trials
Failed retrieving data.Scalable sum-shrinkage schemes for distributed monitoring large-scale data streams
Failed retrieving data.Tandem-width sequential confidence intervals for a Bernoulli proportion
Failed retrieving data.Asymptotic statistical properties of communication-efficient quickest detection schemes in sensor networks
Failed retrieving data.Differentially private change-point detection
Failed retrieving data.Thresholded Multivariate Principal Component Analysis for Phase I Multichannel Profile Monitoring
Failed retrieving data.Precision in the specification of ordinary differential equations and parameter estimation in modeling biological processes
Failed retrieving data.Search for evergreens in science : A functional data analysis
Failed retrieving data.Sequential estimation based on conditional cost
Failed retrieving data.Discussion on “Sequential detection/isolation of abrupt changes” by Igor V. Nikiforov
Failed retrieving data.Effect of bivariate data's correlation on sequential tests of circular error probability
Failed retrieving data.Symmetric directional false discovery rate control
Failed retrieving data.An Adaptive Sampling Strategy for Online High-Dimensional Process Monitoring
Failed retrieving data.Large-Scale Multi-Stream Quickest Change Detection via Shrinkage Post-Change Estimation
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