Assistant Professor

Department of Biostatistics
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2022 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 2020 - 2022, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Iowa, 2020 
• M.S. in Statistics, Ewha Womans University 2014 
• B.S. in Statistics & B.E. in Economics, Ewha Womans University 2012 

Research interests

My research interests lie in developing and applying statistics to address theoretical and computational issues, motivated by many real-world applications in diverse scientific fields. Specifically, I have focused on Bayesian statistics, heterogeneity analysis, mixture models, statistical computing, and high-dimensional data, and statistical applications to cancer data.

Selected Publications

• Im, Y., Huang, Y., Huang, J., and Ma, S. (2022). Bayesian hierarchical finite mixture regression for histopathological imaging-based cancer data analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 41(6), 1009–1022
• Im, Y., Huang, Y., Tan, A., and Ma, S. (2021). Bayesian finite mixture of regression analysis for cancer based on histopathological imaging-environment interactions. Biostatistics
• Im, Y., and Tan, A. (2021). Bayesian subgroup analysis in regression using mixture models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 162, 107252
• Farhadian, S. F., Lindenbaum, O., Zhao, J., Corley, M. J., Im, Y., Walsh, H., Vecchio, A., Garcia-Milian, R., Chiarella, J., Chintanaphol, M., Calvi, R., Wang, G., Ndhlovu, L. C., Yoon, J., Trotta, D., Ma, S., Kluger, Y., Spudich, S. (2022). HIV viral transcription and immune perturbations in the CNS of people with HIV despite ART. JCI Insight, 7(13).