
PhD (University of Oxford)
Professor Wang’s research interests include developing statistical methodology for correlated data analysis, robust inferences and model selection and applying advanced techniques that help to solve important problems in medical sciences, environmental research and natural resource management.
In applied statistics, Professor Wang has been working with multidiscipline teams on a wide range of problems. Their findings have significant impacts in resource management (fisheries and hydrology) and clinical trials (biostatistics). Professor Wang has been invited on a number of occasions to organize/speak at international conferences and to review journal papers. His work has substantial impacts and scientific innovations in statistical modelling and data science.
Professor Wang has published 140+ papers in international journals with more than 3,000 SCI citations (h-index 32, see http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=MNUkTMQAAAAJ&hl=en).
Additional information
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