Yuqiu Yang - PhD Candidate

Yuqiu Yang

PhD Candidate

Houston, Texas, United States

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Yuqiu Yang is a biostatistics PhD candidate and seasoned research analyst with nine years of experience applying statistical modeling and machine learning across energy, neurotech, and public health domains. Trained at Rice (M.S., Statistics) and now at SMU/UTSW, she combines strong programming skills in R, Python, and Spark with practical experience building data pipelines and signal-processing workflows. Her work has improved phoneme-level classification by 50% using HMMs and ML classifiers and distilled neural correlates of audio processing across brain regions. She has industry experience in the oil & energy sector and a track record of translating large, messy multi-center datasets into actionable models (e.g., SARIMA and GLM for COPD surveillance). Comfortable teaching and mentoring, she has graded and instructed statistics courses and led applied projects from survey design to hypothesis testing. Beyond conventional biostatistics, she brings a rare mix of domain breadth—financial math, public health, speech neuroscience, and energy analytics—that enables cross-disciplinary solutions.

9 years of coding experience

Bachelor’s Degree, Financial Mathematics, 86%, Bachelor’s Degree, Financial Mathematics, 86% at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Summer Session, Mathematics and Statistics, 4.0/4.0, Summer Session, Mathematics and Statistics, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, Berkeley

Master’s Degree, Statistics, 4.07, Master’s Degree, Statistics, 4.07 at Rice University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics at Southern Methodist University

English, Chinese

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (9)

bioinformatics8

simulation7

cytoscapejs7

bioconda6

graphical-user-interface5

nonlinear-equations3

julia2

optimization2

nonlinear2

Programming languages (3)

RC++Python

Github contributions (5)

Yuqiu-Yang/problem_solving_with_algorithms_and_data_structures_using_python

Apr 2020 - May 2020

Contributions:88 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month

Yuqiu-Yang/pMTnet_Omni_Document

Feb 2023 - Mar 2025

Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month

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