Jingjing Yang
Associate Professor
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJingjing Yang is an associate professor and geneticist with 11 years of research and academic experience, leading the Yang Lab at Emory University School of Medicine. Trained as a statistician (Ph.D., Rice University; MS, Clemson), she applies quantitative methods to human genetics, bridging statistical rigor with translational biomedical questions. Her career progressed from research roles at Rice and Michigan to faculty positions at Emory, where she has established an independent lab and research program. Colleagues describe her work as data-driven and methodologically innovative, with a focus on reproducible analysis and interdisciplinary collaboration. She combines deep statistical training with hands-on experimental partnerships to turn complex genomic data into clinically relevant insights.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Statistics, MS, Statistics at Clemson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at Rice University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
genomics1
rna-seq1
bioinformatics1
sequencing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yjingj/BFGWAS_SS
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
yjingj/BFDA
Dec 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:52 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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