Professor You-Gan Wang

  Positions held

• May 2010– Sept 2015         Chair Professor of Applied Statistics, Director, Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics (CARM), School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland.
• May 2005 – April 2010  Senior Science Leader, CSIRO, Australia.
• Jun 2001 – May 2005     Associate Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore.
• Jan 2001 – May 2002     Associate Professor, Harvard University.
• Dec 1998 – Dec 2000     Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Education

• 1991 Statistics D.Phil, University of Oxford (Supervised by Prof JC Gittins)
• 1988 Statistics M.Sc, Peking University
• 1986 Mathematics B.Sc, Zhejiang University

Professional services

• Grant Reviews
• ARC Discovery, Linkage, DECRA
• National Science Foundation, USA
• Alaska Sea Grant
• Thesis and Senior Promotion Assessors

   Professional and administrative experiences

• Editorial Board of Biometrics (2013-present)
• Editorial Board of Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2015-present)
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
• Associate Editor of Electronic Journal of Statistics (2009-2011)
• Referee for major journals in statistics and its applications (roughly 15 per year)
• Organize International conferences and workshops
• External Evaluator for the Center for Pharmaceutical Administration and the Center for Drug Evaluation, Singapore.
• Program committee for the international conferences (IBC, IMS)

Editorial boards

• Associate Editor of Biometrics
• Advisory Editor of Environmental Modeling & Assessment
• Associate Editor of EJS (2010-2012)

Research Grants and Projects

New ARC Discovery Grant (2016-2018) (Sole CI): Generalised degree of freedom and probablistic regulisation (DP160104292) ($300,000).

Jun 2013-Jun 2016
ARC Discovery Grant (Sole CI): Robust inferences for analysis of longitudinal data (DP130100766) ($330,000).

 an 2012-Dec 2014
ARC Linkage Grant (one of the Chief Investigators): Multi-scale, two-phase flow in complex coal seam systems ($377,800).

Jul 2007 – Jun 2008
FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Calculating recent foreign fishing vessel numbers us­ing established estimators based on coastwatch surveillance and appre­hension data ($93,471).

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006
FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Estimating Reliable Foreign Fishing Vessel Fishing Effort from Coastwatch Surveillance and Apprehension Data ($143,358).

Mar 2004 – Feb 2005
Chief Investigator of “Phase I/II designs for multiple out­ comes” (S$93,685) .

Jun 2003 – May 2006
Chief Investigator of “Robust Methods for Analysis of Lon­gitudinal Data” (S$113,054) .

Apr 2002 – Mar 2004
Chief Investigator of “Analysis of Clustered Data Analysis” (S$32,500).

Oct 1998 – Apr 2001
Protocol development and data analysis for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG 377, ACTG 225, ACTG381, ACTG391, ACTG1018, ACTG1012).

Oct 1998 – Apr 2001:
Statistical Modeling and Parameter Estimation in AIDS Clinical Trials  (R01:AI24643, PI: S. Lagakos).

Apr 1997 – Mar 2000
Senior Statistical Consultant, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen­ter, New York, on Parameter Estimation in Sequential Clinical Trials (NIH Grant CA74207).

Jul 1998 – Dec 1998
Coinvestigator of “Risk analysis for the Northern Prawn Fishery” (A$620,000).

Jul 1995 – Dec 1997
Principal Investigator, of “Estimation of survival and growth for Aus­tralian Prawn Fisheries” (A$220,000).

Jul 1992 – Jun 1997
Population dynamics and Bioeconomic study for Northern Prawn Fishery, CSIRO.

Oct 1991 – Jun 1992
Cohort and Case-Control study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Cancer Research; Children Injury Prevention and Statistical Consult­ing at Menzies Centre for population Health Research, University of Tasmania.

Sep 1988 – May 1991
Study for the D.Phil on Decision Theory under supervision of Professor J.C. Gittins, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

• Jones A, Ovenden J, Wang Y, (2016) Improved confidence intervals for the linkage disequilibrium method for estimating effective population size, Heredity p217-223
• Wang Y, Wang S, Dunlop J, (2015) Statistical modelling and power analysis for detecting trends in total suspended sediment loads, Journal of Hydrology p439-447
• Zhang Q, Li L, Wang Y, Werner A, Xin P, Jiang T, Barry D, (2012) Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier?, Geophysical Research Letters p1-7
• Fu L, Wang Y, (2011) Nonparametric rank regression for analyzing water quality concentration data with multiple detection limits, Environmental Science & Technology p1481-1489
• Carey V, Wang Y, (2011) Working covariance model selection for generalized estimating equations, Statistics in Medicine p3117-3124
• Leung D, Wang Y, Zhu M, (2009) Efficient parameter estimation in longitudinal data analysis using a hybrid GEE method, Biostatistics p436-445
• Hin L, Wang Y, (2009) Working-correlation-structure identification in generalized estimating equations, Statistics in Medicine p642-658
• Hin L, Carey V, Wang Y, (2007) Criteria for working-correlation-structure selection in GEE: Assessment via simulation, American Statistician p360-364
• Wang Y, Zhu M, (2006) Rank-based regression for analysis of repeated measures, Biometrika p459-464
• Brown B, Wang Y, (2005) Standard errors and covariance matrices for smoothed rank estimators, Biometrika p149-158

Title

Generalised Degrees of Freedom and Probabilistic Regularisation

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DP160104292

Start year

2016

Keywords

Title

Robust Inferences for Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DP130100766

Start year

2013

Keywords

Rank Statistics; Robust Inferences; Semiparametrics