Jing Ma
Associate Professor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJing Ma is an associate professor and statistician based in Seattle with nine years of research and academic experience translating advanced statistical methods into biomedical and public-health applications. After earning a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Michigan and a mathematics B.S. from Fudan University, she progressed from postdoctoral work at UPenn to faculty roles at Texas A&M and Fred Hutch, and holds an affiliate appointment at the University of Washington. Her work blends methodological rigor with applied collaboration at a leading cancer research center, evidencing a track record of moving complex statistical ideas into impactful, real-world studies. Beyond typical academic outputs, she combines deep quantitative training with practical research-science partnerships, making her equally fluent in theory, computation, and cross-disciplinary translation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Statistics, Ph.D, Statistics at University of MichiganB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Fudan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
set-analysis10
r-package5
correlation4
sequencing4
microbiome3
normalization3
r3
meta-analysis3
biodiversity2
bioinformatics2
computational-biology2
absolute2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drjingma/gmm
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
drjingma/microGraph
Jul 2020 - Apr 2025
Graphical models for microbiome data
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
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