Office
Petty 106
Education
Ph.D. in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University (2011)
Research
Member of the Research Group(s): Statistics
Current Students: Reetika Sarkar (Ph.D.), Erika Gibson (Ph.D.)
Former Students: Sravani Krosuri (M.A.)
Courses taught
- STA 432/632 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
- STA 465/665 Analysis of Survival Data
- STA 667 Statistical Consulting
Brief Biography
Dr. Jianping Sun received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in 2011 and then had two postdoc experiences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and McGill University in Canada, respectively. Her research interests include both statistical methodology and applied research in high-dimensional complex genomic data. Her main methodology focuses are hierarchical modeling, multivariate analysis, and composite likelihood on complex data. She also has rich experiences in statistical genetics, especially in rare-variate association study, gene by environment interaction, next generation sequencing data, and analysis of gene expression and DNA methylation data.