Headshot of Jianping Sun

Assistant Professor

Mathematics and Statistics

Email Address: j_sun4@uncg.edu

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.