WEI, Yingying 魏颖颖Position Associate Professor
Email ywei [at] cuhk.edu.hk
Phone Number 3943 7922
Fax Number 2603 5188
Address LSB 111
Homepage https://www.sta.cuhk.edu.hk/ywei/


Academic Background2009 B.Sc. in Mathematics (Tsinghua University)
2014 M.S.E. in Computer Science (the Johns Hopkins University)
2014 Ph.D. in Biostatistics (the Johns Hopkins University)
Research InterestBayesian StatisticsBig DataData IntegrationStatistical Genomics
Selected PublicationsIn the author list, bold indicates lab members; ^* represents equal contribution; and ^# stands for the corresponding author.
Song FD, Chan GM, Wei YY^# (2020) Flexible Experimental Designs for Valid Single-cell RNA-sequencing Experiments Allowing Batch Effects Correction, Nature Communications, 11:3274
Luo XY, Wei YY^# (2019) Batch Effects Correction with Unknown Subtypes, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114 (526) 581-594.
Luo XY, Yang C^#, Wei YY^# (2019) Detection of Cell-type-specific Risk-CpG sites in Epigenome-wide Association Studies, Nature Communications, 10:3113.
Dai ZW, Wong H, Yu J, and Wei YY^# (2019) Batch Effects Correction for Microbiome Data with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression, Bioinformatics, 35 (5): 807-814.
Luo XY, Wei YY^# (2018) Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Heterogeneous Dynamic Transcription Factor Networks, Annals of Applied Statistics, 12 (3), 1749-1772.
Wei YY^# and Wu H^# (2016) Measuring the Spatial Correlations of Protein Binding Sites, Bioinformatics, 32 (12): 1766-1772.
Wei YY^# and Tenzen T, and Ji HK^# (2015) Joint Analysis of Differential Gene Expression in Multiple Studies using Correlation Motifs, Biostatistics, 16 (1) 31-46.
Wei YY^#, Li X^*, Wang Q, and Ji HK^# (2012) iASeq: Integrative Analysis of Allele-specificity of Protein-DNA Interactions in Multiple ChIP-seq Datasets, BMC Genomics, 13:681. Highly accessed.
Honors and Awards2019? ? The W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing, by the American Statistical Associations
2017? ? Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, by Faculty of Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013? ? The Margaret Merrell Award, by the Johns Hopkins University
2013? ? ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, by the International Biometric Society
2012? ? The June B. Culley Award, by the Johns Hopkins University
2009? ? Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University
2008? ? Meritorious Award for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), by MAA, INFORMS, SIAM and ASA
2006, 2007, 2008? ? Outstanding Academic Performance Scholarship, by Tsinghua University
2006? ? National Scholarship, by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
Major Research GrantsRGC-GRF 14304521 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Statistical Methods for Multi-Ethnic Genome-Wide Association Studies
01/01/2022-31/12/2024, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 14306020 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Fine-Scale Inference for Aggregate-Level DNA Methylation Data
01/01/2021-31/12/2022, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 14305319 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Statistical Methods for Estimating a Set of Phylogenetic Trees
01/01/2020-31/12/2022, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 14305318 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Bayesian Methods for Time-to-event Data on a Social Network
01/01/2019-31/12/2020, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 14306417 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Bayesian Graph-valued Regression
01/01/2018-31/12/2019, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 24301416 awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Statistical Modeling for Heterogeneous Dynamic Transcription Factor Networks
01/01/2017-31/12/2018, Principal Investigator
Professional ActivitiesSecretary? ? The American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, 2019-present
Associate Editor? ? Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2019-present
Guest Editor? ? Special Issue of Statistics in Biosciences, 2019-present
Membership? ? American Statistical Association, International Chinese Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Society for Computational Biology