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Yajun Mei is a Professor of Biostatistics at New York University School of Global Public Health, starting July 1, 2024. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Peking University in Beijing, China, in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in 2003. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biostatistics at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center from 2003 to 2005. Before joining NYU, Dr. Mei served as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, for 18 years from 2006 to 2024. He co-directed the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Study Design (BERD) at the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance starting in 2018. His research interests include statistics, machine learning, data science, and their applications in biomedical science and public health, focusing on streaming data analysis, sequential decision/design, change-point problems, precision/personalized medicine, hot-spot detection in infectious diseases, longitudinal data analysis, and bioinformatics, particularly in clinical trials.
NYU/GPH • New York, NY
Teaching and conducting research in biostatistics.
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Involved in teaching and research in systems engineering and biostatistics.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.