Background:
Shu Yang graduated from Iowa State University in 2014 with major in Mathematics and comajor in Statistics working with J.K. Kim and Z. Zhu. After graduation, she joined Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health as a post-doc with Judith Lok. She then joined NC State as a faculty member since 2016. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and became a Goodnight Early Career Innovator and a University Faculty Scholar in the same year.
Research interests:
⋆ Semiparametric efficient estimation
⋆ Survey sampling and methodology
⋆ Missing data analysis and imputation methods
⋆ Causal inference from longitudinal observational data
⋆ Real-world evidence studies, co-chairing ASA RWE SWG
⋆ Spatial data analysis, nonstationary process and spectral methods
⋆ Individual treatment regime learning, data integration and fusion methods
Employment:
| North Carolina State University | |
| Professor | 2025–present |
| Associate professor | 2021–2025 |
| Assistant professor | 2016–2021 |
| Harvard University | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics | 2014–2016 |
Editorial Services (Associate Editor):
| ASA Discoveries | 2025–present |
| ASA Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research | 2026–present |
| ASA Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (SI) | 2025–2026 |
| ASA Journal of American Statistics Association A&CS | 2024–present |
| Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A | 2023–2027 |
| ASA Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics | 2021–present |
| Biometrics | 2018–2026 |
| ASA Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics Special Issue on Causal Inference |
2021–2023 |
| Statistica Sinica | 2016–2018 |
Curriculum Vitae: CV.
Contact:
⋆ Office: SAS Hall 4266
⋆ Phone: 919-515-1935
⋆ Email: syang24@ncsu.edu
⋆ Linkedin: Shu Yang
