Yaping's Resume

Yaping Wang

*** ******* ******* ****, #*-***, Athens, GA 30605

Phone: 770-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

Qualification

Proficient in SAS, SPSS and R user with 6 years applied experience

2.5 years experience working for government agencies domestically and internationally,

plus 3 years academic research experience.

Experienced authoring publications for peer-reviewed journals

Education

M.S., Biostatistics, Emory University, 2009

M.S., Epidemiology, Peking Union Medical College, 2006

B.S., Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2003

Experience

Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (06/2008 – 12/2008)

Biostatistician, Air Pollution & Respiratory Health Branch

Contributed to a surveillance study about asthma cases in data cleaning and

statistical report generation. Indentified data quality issues and implemented solutions to

resolve those issues.

Developed sophisticated analytics and data modeling for different data.

Produced statistical tables and figures using SAS and R.

Engaged in discussion with other clinical team members to achieve team goals.

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Consultant, Biostatistics Consulting Center (09/2006 – Present)

Provided programming support for data entry, cleaning, management, and validation,

statistical report generation, and program validation for different projects.

Provided programming support for clinical trials by performing sample size and power

calculations, assessing adverse effects, and conducting survival analysis.

Used SAS and R programming to produce tables, listings and graphs for use in clinical

study reports.

Teaching assistant, School of Public Health (09/2006 - 05/2008)

Instructed SAS programming lab sections for non-statistical major graduate students.

Assisted in the instruction of statistical fundamental lectures for the graduate

students.

Chinese National Human Genome Center, Beijing, China (08/2004 - 06/2006)

Research Assistant, Cardiovascular Disease Branch

Conducted several studies in cardiovascular diseases. Worked with PI to design the

studies, provided data management and analyzed cleaned data using the most appropriate

statistical methodology for special trials.

Created statistical programming plan with templates for tables, listings and graphs.

Published a paper as the first author, and contributed in several other publications.

Publication

Wang YP, Li B, Zhao WY, Liu P, Zhao Q, Chen SF, Li HF and Gu DF. Association Study of

the G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 4 Gene Variants with the Essential Hypertension in

Northern Han Chinese. Annals of Human Genetics (2006) 70, 778-783

Weiyan Zhao, Yaping Wang, Laiyuan Wang, Xiangfeng Lu, Wei Yang, Jianfeng Huang,

Shufeng Chen, Dongfeng Gu. Gender-specific Association Between the Kininogen 1 Gene Variants

and Essential Hypertension in Chinese Han Population. Journal of Hypertension (in press)

Membership

The International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region

Membership of American Statistical Association

Honors & Awards

Graduate Fellowship, Emory University, 2006 - present

Graduate Fellowship, Peking Union Medical College, 2003 - 2006

Top Class Fellowship, Beijing Institute of Technology, 1999 – 2003

Technical Skills

Statistical Methods:

Analysis for categorical data, time to event data, longitudinal data

Clinical Trial Design and Sample Size Calculation

Survival Data Analysis Skills: Cox PH model, Accelerated Failure Model

GEE, Mixed Model for Repeated Measurement

Model Selection, Nonlinear Model, and Optimization

Great Experience with Providing Illustrative Plots and Tables for Statistical Reports

Bayesian and Empirical Bayesian Methods (MCMC)

Computer Skills:

Proficient with large data management, statistical analysis using SAS, R.,

WinBUGs, SPSS, Matlab, Arc View.

Other Technical Skills:

Proficient with genotyping by PCR-RFLP

Familiar with genetics, and general knowledge in molecular biology

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