Health University
Resume:
December, ****
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Yi Li
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
Mail Addres: 44 Binney Street, CLS 11007
Boston, MA 02115
Email: ****@*****.*******.***
Phone: 617-***-****
Homepage: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/yi-li
/
Education:
Post-doctoral Fellow Biostatistics Harvard University, MA 1999-2000
Ph.D. Biostatistics University of Michigan, MI July, 1999
M.S. Biostatistics University of Michigan, MI May, 1996
M.S. Mathematics Tulane University, LA May, 1994
B.S. Mathematics Nanjing University, CHN July, 1991
Experience:
2005-presentAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
2005-presentAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Biostatistics and Computational Biology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
2000-2005Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Biostatistical Science, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
2003-2003Visiting Professor
Limburgs Universitait Centrum, Belgium
1999-2000Research Fellow
Harvard SPH and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1997-1999Research AssociateHMRC, University of Michigan
1994-1997Graduate Research AssistantDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
1992-1994Graduate Teaching AssistantDepartment of Mathematics, Tulane University
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Honors and Awards:
2010 Bonus Program for Exceptional Service, Department of Biostatistics
and Computational Biology, DFCI
2008 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2008-2012 NIH Investigator-initiated Research Grant Award (R01)
2008 Special Invited Speaker for the inaugural Yakovlev Colloquium
at University of Rochester
2004 Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award (Harvard SPH)
2003-08 NIH Investigator-initiated Research Grant Award (R01)
2003-05 Award of Harvard Provost's Fund for Innovation in Instructional Technology
2003, 2006 Janssen Research Foundation Chair in Survival Analysis, Belgium
1999 American Statistical Association David P. Byar Young Investigator Award
1999 International Chinese Statistical Association excellent paper award
1999 International Biometric Society (ENAR) John van Ryzin Award
1998 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Student Program Award
1996 Award for the Best Performance in
Biostatistics Ph.D qualifying examinations, U of M
1993 Award for the Best Performance in
Mathematics Ph.D qualifying examinations, Tulane
Professional activities:
Editorship:
Associate Editor, Biometrics, 2006-2010
Associate Editor, Lifetime Data Analysis, 2008-2010
Associate Editor, Statistics in Biosciences, 2009-2011
Editorial Board Member, Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Prob-
ability Societies, Springer, 2009-
NIH Grant Review:
Ad Hoc Member: Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD)
Study Section, 2007
Regular Member: Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD)
Study Section, 2008-2012
NSF Grant Review:
Reviewer: NSF Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Pro-
gram, 2008
Panelist: NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Panel, 2008
(CDI II-3 full proposal panel).
Other Grant Review:
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Reviewer: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada,
2009
Reviewer: Health Effects Institute, 2003
Mathematical Reviews, 2005-presentPanel of Review:
National and International Committee Appointments:
1. IMS Program Chair for the ENAR meeting, 2012
2. Chair of the ENAR Junior Investigator Workshop Planning Committee,
2010
3. Chair of the ICSA publication committee (members include editors of
ICSA journals, eg. Peter Hall, Kung-Yee Liang, etc), 2009
4. International Biometric Society Regional Advisory Board (ENAR-RAB),
2007-2009
5. Planning Committee, International Biometric Society ENAR Junior Re-
searcher Workshop, 2008-2009
6. Scientific Committee, IMS-China International Conference on Statistics
and Probability 2009
7. Scientific Committee, International Conference on Financial Statistics and
Financial Econometrics {Nonparametric Modelling and Its Application,
2009, China.
8. International Biometric Society ENAR Student Paper Award Selection
Committee, 2007-2009
9. ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Young Investigator and Grad-
uate Student Awards Committee, 2009
10. Schering-Plough/Harvard Conference Planning Committee, 2007
:International/National/Harvard Conference Appointments
1. Invited Session Chair, 2002 International Biometric Society-ENAR Meet-
ings, Washington, DC.
2. Organizer for the Harvard-Yale Joint Workshop on Respiratory Diseases
and Statistical Challenges, 2004, Boston, MA.
3. Invited Session Organizer and Chair, 2007 International Biometric Society-
ENAR Meetings, Atlanta, GA.
\Survival Analysis and its Applications in Genetics/Genomics"
4. Organizer for Invited Session, 2007 Applied Statistics Symposium, Raleigh,
NC
\Challenges and Statistical Solutions for Analysis of High Dimensional
Data from Array CGH"
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5. Organizer for IMS-sponsored Invited Session, 2008, International Biomet-
ric Society-ENAR Meetings
\New advances in survival analysis for high-dimensional biomedical data"
6. Organizer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center An-
nual Dinner Workshop, 2008
"Challenges in understanding and coping with health disparities"
7. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2008 IMS-China Conference, Hangzhou,
CHN
\Emerging Challenges and Advances in High Dimensional Data Analysis
in BioSciences"
8. Organizer and Moderator for the Special Panel Discussion with Bradley
Efron, David Harrington and Colin Begg
\The Growth and Future of Biostatistics and Statistics"
Harvard School of Public Health, 2008
9. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2009 International Statistical Institute
conference, South Africa.
\Challenges and New Advances in High Dimensional Failure Time Analy-
sis with Applications in Life Sciences"
10. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2009 International Biometric Society-
ENAR Meetings, San Antonio, TX.
\Prediction and Survival Modeling for Modern Biomedical Data"
11. Co-organizer for 2009 International Conference on Financial Statistics and
Financial Econometrics- Nonparametric Modeling and Applications, China
12. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2010 International Biometric Society-
ENAR Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
\Prediction and Model Selection"
13. Organizer for an Invited Session, First Annual International Biostatistics
Symposium, 2010, Beijing, China.
\New Advances in Clinical Trial and Failure Time Data Analysis"
14. Organizing committee for International Conference on Statistical Analysis
of Complex Data, 2010, Kuming, China
15. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2011 International Biometric Society-
ENAR Meetings, Miami, FL
\High-dimensional data analysis with applications in biomedicine"
16. Discussion Leader for Roundtable Luncheon, 2011 International Biometric
Society-ENAR Meetings, Miami, FL
\NIH Grant Review Process for Methodology Grants"
17. Organizer for an Invited Session, 2nd IMS-APRM Conference, 2011, Tokyo,
Japan.
\Statistical Methods for High-dimensional Data"
:Data Safety and Monitoring Boards (DSMB)
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Member, Safe Pediatric Euglycemia after Cardiac Surgery (SPECS), Na-
tional Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), 2007-2011
:Memberships
International Biometric Society (ENAR)
American Statistical Association (ASA)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
:Referee
Statistical Journals:
Research Interests:
survival analysis
statistical methods for high-dimensional data
statistical methods for cancer trials and/or observational studies
measurement error problems
random effects models
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adaptive design in clinical trials
survival modeling for early stage cancers, e.g. head & neck and prostate cancers
hidden markov model and its application in genomics, e.g. Copy Number Vari-
ations.
Cancer Training Grants:
NCI, PI: Yi Li
5T32CA009337 (2009-2011)
Biostatistics/Epidemiology Training Grant in Biostatistics
NCI, PI: Yi Li (pending, impact score 20)
5T32CA009337 (2011-2016), $3,500,000 (direct)
Biostatistics/Epidemiology Training Grant in Biostatistics
Statistical Grants:
NCI, PI: Yi Li, 50%
R01 CA95747 (2003-2007), $600,000 (direct)
Community-based Studies in Cancer and Environment
NCI, PI: Yi Li, 35%
R01 CA95747 (2008-2012), $500,000 (direct)
Community-based Studies in Cancer and Environment
NCI, PI: Yi Li, 10%
1P01CA134294-010002 (2008-2013), $500,000 (direct)
New Statistical Methods for Cancer Surveillance
NCI, PI: Yi Li, 20% (pending, priority score 8%)
R21CA157219 (2011-2013), $275,000 (direct)
Integrated Statistical Analysis for Cancer Genomic Studies
Harvard Provost's O ce, PI: Yi Li, 0%
2003-2005, $47,500 (direct)
Grant for Innovation in Instructional Technology
Collaborative Grants:
DFCI/HCC Nodal Award (P30CA06516-43), CO-PI: Yi Li (PI:Allen, J.) 0%
2006-2008, $150,000 (direct)
Parental Attitudes Toward the HPV Vaccine
NCI, PI. Harrington, D., 20%
2P30 CA006516 12/01/77 - 11/30/07
Cancer Center Support Grant (Biostatistics CORE)
Supplement 1, S53-S54.
Coursenotes
Short Courses Given in International/National Professional Conferences:
1. Survival Analysis and its Applications in Biomedical/Social Sciences. Interna-
tional Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference (2007)
2. Applied Survival Analysis in Social Sciences. International Family Violence and
Child Victimization Research Conference (2008)
3. Modern Statistical Techniques for High Dimensional Data Analysis. Northeast-
ern Normal University, China.
Invited Presentations in International/National/Harvard Professional
Conferences:
1. 2nd IMS-APRM Conference, 2011, Tokyo, Japan.
2. Centre de recherches mathematiques Workshop, Montreal, 2011, Canada.
3. The 4th International conference on Computational and Financial Economet-
rics, London, 2010, UK.
4. International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Complex Data (SACD),
Kunming, 2010, China.
5. International Conference on Statistics and Society, Beijing, 2010, China.
6. Workshop on Frontier Statistics, Beijing, 2010, China.
7. First Joint Biostatistics Symposium, Beijing, 2010, China.
8. The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Winter Meeting, Windsor, Canada,
2009.
9. International Statistical Institute conference, 2009, South Africa.
10. IMS-Asia Pacific Rim Meetings, 2009, Seoul, South Korea.
11. International Conference on Financial Statistics and Financial Econometrics
{Nonparametric Modelling and Its Application, 2009, Chengdu, China.
12. Statistical Society of Canada, 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
13. IMS-China Statistics and Probability Conference, 2009, Weihai, China.
14. Discussant for topic contributed session on "Threshold Regression Models and
Alternative Time Scale", JSM, Denver, 2008.
15. IMS-China Statistics and Probability Conference, 2008, Hangzhou, China.
16. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center Annual Dinner Work-
shop, 2008.
32. The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics
Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (May, 1999).
33. The Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD (August, 1999).
34. The international Biometric Society (ENAR) meetings, Atlanta, GA (March,
1999).
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35. The Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas, TX (August, 1998).
Invited Seminars:
1. Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Georgetown
University (Feb, 2011)
2. Department of Statistics, Connecticut University (Nov, 2010)
3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University,
Belgium (Jan, 2010)
4. Department of Decision Science, Bocconi University, Italy (Jan, 2010)
5. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University (Nov, 2009)
6. Division of Probability and Statistics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems
Science, China (July, 2009)
7. Department of Statistics, Cornell University (Mar 26, 2009)
8. Department of Statistics, University of Missouri (Mar 11, 2009)
9. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan (Dec 4, 2008)
10. Department of Biostatistics, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan (Oct. 2008)
11. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University (Oct. 2008)
12. Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester
(Sep 18, 2008).
13. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University, CHN (July 4,
2008)
14. School of Statistics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
(June, 2008)
15. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Yunnan University, CHN (June 25,
2008)
16. Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Insti-
tutes, Taiwan (Jan 9, 2008).
17. Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Insti-
tutes, Taiwan (Jan 8, 2008).
18. Statistics Colloquium Series, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Port-
land State University and Division of Biostatistics, Oregon Health and Science
University (Nov 29, 2007).
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19. Thursday Morning Seminar Series, Department of Biostatistics and Compu-
tational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, joint with Student Diversity
forum, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University (Nov 8, 2007).
20. Statistical Seminar, University of Wisconsin (Nov 15, 2007).
21. Biostatistical Seminar, Medical University of South Carolina (October 1, 2007).
22. High dimensional working group, Harvard Biostatistics Department (April, 2007).
23. Biostatistical Seminar, Yale Medical School (Feb. 27, 2007).
24. Biostatistical Seminar, University of Pennsylvania (December, 2006)
25. Statistical Seminar, University of Ghent, Belgium (July 4, 2005).
26. Harvard Environmental Statistics Symposium (Nov, 2003).
27. Statistical Seminar, University of Ghent, Belgium (May 20, 2003).
28. Statistical Seminar, Institute of Statistics, Universit e Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium (May 9, 2003)
29. Harvard biostatistics environmental statistics group, Boston, MA (April, 2002).
30. Probability and Statistics seminar, Department of Statistics and Acturial Sci-
ence, Hong Kong University (August, 2001).
31. Statistics seminar series, Brown University, Providence, RI (April, 2001).
32. Harvard biostatistics environmental statistics group,
Boston, MA (December,
2000).
33. Probability and Statistics seminar, Mathematics and Statistics Department,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (December, 1999
).
34. Harvard Biostatistics Measurement Error Working Group,
Boston, MA (Novem-
ber, 1999
).
35.
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (Mar.
12, 1999
).
36.
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Mar. 3,
1999
).
37.
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Feb. 25,
1999
).
38.
Fred Huchinson Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA (Feb. 23, 1999
).
39. Division of Biostatistics,
Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT (Feb. 19, 1999).
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40. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
(
Feb. 15, 1999).
41. Departments of Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI (Feb. 8, 1999).
42. Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI
(
Feb. 1, 1999).
43. Division of Biometry, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX
(
Jan. 15, 1999
).
44.
Department of Biomathematics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cen-
ter, Houston, TX (Jan. 13, 1999
).
45.
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation, Princeton, NJ (November, 1998
).
46.
The SmithKline Beecham Corporation, Philadelphia, PA (November, 1998).
Primary Thesis Advisor For Harvard Doctoral Students:
1. A. Cook, Department of Biostatistics (graduation: 2005)
Thesis: Detecting Spatial Clustering for Discrete, Censored, or Longitudinal
Oucomes (won 2004 ENAR Travel Award; runner-up in the ENVR (ASA)
Best Student Paper competition)
Employment: Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington
2. M. Goodman, Department of Biostatistics (graduation: 2006)
Thesis: Statistical Methods for Community-based Research
Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook
3. D. Engler, Department of Biostatistics (co-advise with R. Betensky)
(graduation: 2007)
Thesis: Novel Statistical Modeling and Selection Methodologies for High
Dimensional Genomic Data.
Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University.
4. M. Othus, Department of Biostatistics
Thesis Topics: Survival Analysis with Complex Censoring Mechanisms and
with Applications in Population-based Studies (won 2008 ENAR Travel
Award; 2008 runner-up of the 2008 ASA Byar Award competition; 2008 ICSA
excellent paper award)
Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center
5. M. Marino, Department of Biostatistics
Thesis Topics: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Complex Datasets with
Applications in Community-based Studies (won 2010 ENAR Student Paper
Award; 2010 American Public Health Association Student Paper award; 2010
ICSA Student Paper Award)
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6. D. Zhao, Department of Biostatistics
Thesis Topics: High-dimensional Data Analysis and Variable Selection.
(won 2010 New England Statistics Symposium Student Paper Award; 2010
ICSA Student Paper Award; 1st place 2010 ASA Biopharmaceutical Student
Paper Award.)
7. A. Snavely, Department of Biostatistics
Thesis Topics: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Multiple Outcome Data.
8. W. Dai, Department of Biostatistics
Thesis Topics: Variable Selection and Predictive Evaluation.
Faculty Advisor For Postdoctoral Fellow
:
1. Subha Guha,
Department of Biostatistics (2004-2007)
Research Topics: Racial Disparities in Cancer Cures, Cancer Genomics
Current Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of
Statistics, University of Missouri - Columbia
.
2.
Xiaomei Liao, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2007-2009)
Research Topics: Cancer Epidemiology, Measurement Error Problems
3. Bret Hanlon,
Department of Biostatistics (2009-2010)
Research Topics: Variable/Model Selection
Current Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of
Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
4. Dhruv Sharma, Department of Biostatistics (2010- )
Research Topics: Cancer Surveillance
Harvard Doctoral Committees Served As a Member For:
1. S. Bellamy, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2002)
2. A. Gryparis, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2005)
3. J. Najita, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2005)
4. B. Zhang, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2005)
5. P. Ruan, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2005)
6. L. Zheng, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2005)
7. J. Manjourides, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2008)
8. L. Dicker, Department of Biostatistics (to graduate 2010)
9. C. Jeffery, Department of Biostatistics (graduated 2010)
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10. C. Yu, Department of Environmental Health (graduated 2004)
11. C. Liu, Department of Environmental Health (graduated 2007)
12. N. Heard, Department of Population and International Health (graduated 2009)
13. R. Tucker-Seeley, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
(graduated 2009)
14. C. A. Okechukwu, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
(graduated 2009)
15. M. Jimenez, Department of Epidemiology (graduated 2009)
16. C. Nelson, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.
17. C. Huang, Department of Environmental Health
International Doctoral Committees Served As a Member For:
1. Fabian Tibaldi (Division of Biostatistics, LUC, Belgium, 2004)
2. An Vandebosch (Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University
of Ghent, Belgium, 2005)
Harvard Student Academic Advisor For:
1. J. James, Department of Biostatistics
2. T. Yeh, Department of Biostatistics
3. X. Deng, Department of Biostatistics
4. M. Wu, Department of Biostatistics
5. S. Harris, Department of Biostatistics
6. A. Buchanan, Department of Biostatistics
7. S. Lutz, Department of Biostatistics
8. S. Khan, Department of Biostatistics
9. L. Kunz, Department of Biostatistics
10. C. McIntosh, Department of Biostatistics
11. R. Ramchandani, Department of Biostatistics
12. J. Scholl, Department of Biostatistics
13. A. Sullivan, Department of Biostatistics
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14. F. Yong, Department of Biostatistics
Committees at Harvard University
1. Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Biostatistics Program (2004-)
2. Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Cancer Disparities Program (2007-)
3. Harvard H.T. Fisher Prize Committee in GIS (2005-)
Committees at Harvard School Public Health
1. Committee in Education Policy (CEP) (2006-2008)
2. Advisory Board for Initiative to Foster Student Diversity (IMSD) Program and
Diversity Workshop (2000-2007)
Committee at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Scientific Review Committee (2006-)
Committees in Harvard Biostatistics Department:
1. Organizer, Harvard Biostatistics Cancer Working-Group Seminar (2008-)
2. Chair, Colloquium Committee (2007-2009)
3. Chair, Probability Course Series Development Committee (2004)
4. Chair, Committee on Developing Website for Faculty Development Resource
(2008)
5. Organizer, Harvard Environmental Statistics Program Symposium (2007)
6. Panelist of NIH Methodological Grant Mini-Workshop (2007)
7. Mentor, Diversity Workshop Interns (2001- ),
8. Junior Faculty Promotion Committee (2007-2008),
9. Diversity Committee (2000 - 2007),
10. Admission Committee (2000 - 2002 ),
11. Degree Committee (2002 - 2003),
12. Seminar Committee (2000 -2002),
13. Qualifying Exam Committee (2002 -2006),
14. Teaching Effectiveness Committee (2000- 2002).
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