Yuexuan Wu
Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, eScience Institute
University of Washington
wuyx5@uw.edu
I will be joining the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor starting August 2024.
I am currently a Biostatistics postdoctoral scholar at the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), supervised by Prof. K.C. Gary Chan. I am also a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the eScience Institute, University of Washington. I got my Ph.D. in Statistics at Florida State University, under the supervision of Prof. Anuj Srivastava.
My research focuses on developing novel statistical and machine-learning methodologies for analyzing high-dimensional and complex data stemming from neuroimaging, neuroscience, and broader biological and medical research. Central to my research is learning underlying structures within complex data, statistically modeling the variability, and performing statistical inferences. Specifically, I aim to apply these statistical and computational tools to advance the understanding of the brain’s structural changes and their associations with brain functions, aging, and various diseases. My long-term research goal is to unravel the mechanisms of brain aging and diseases using multi-modality data, specifically aiming to detect and diagnose diseases before symptoms appear. My research interests lie in medical image analysis, shape and functional data analysis, computational neuroscience, and causal inference .