Shaoyu Li

Education: Ph.D. in Statistics and Quantitative Biology, Michigan State University; M.S. in Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Courses Taught: N/A

Biography:

Dr. Li is the Program Director for the new PhD Program at the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte, as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics and Quantitative Biology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. Dr. Li’s main research area is statistical genetics and genomics. Her current research focus is developing statistical and computational methodologies to quantify the proportion of cellular compositional effects in the total variation of bulk tissue gene expression, and understand cell-type specific transcriptional changes that are associated with human diseases. She is also interested in novel statistical design and analysis methods for mobile Health studies.

For more information on the PhD program, please email datascience-phd@charlotte.edu.