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Yuying Xie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering and the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on advanced statistical methods and applications in various fields. Specifically, she is involved in single-cell data analyses, spatial data analysis, and statistical machine learning. Yuying has significantly contributed to bioinformatics, high-dimensional data analysis, and graphical models, emphasizing quantitative trait locus (QTL) and expression QTL (eQTL) mapping. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Fudan University, obtained in 2005, followed by two Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one in genetics and molecular biology in 2010, and another in statistics in 2015. Her academic courses include Matrix Algebra (MTH 314).
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