Kai Yang

Kai Yang, Assistant Professor Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin Health Research Center, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226 Phone: 414-955-7689 Email: kayang@mcw.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Florida, 2016-2021

• M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Florida, 2016-2019

• B.S. in Mathematics, Nanjing University, 2012-2016

Experience

• Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021-Present

Honors and Awards

• 2019-2020 Outstanding Dissertation Research Award, University of Florida

• 2019 IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference Student Travel Award

• 2019 Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop Student Travel Award

• 2018 Young Investigator Award, ASA section on Statistics in Epidemiology

• 2018 Best Student Paper Award, International Indian Statistical Association

• 2018 Student Travel Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida

• 2017-2018 Outstanding Dissertation Research Award, University of Florida

Memberships

• American Statistical Association (ASA)

• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

• Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society (ENAR)

• International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Skills

• Languages: English, Chinese

• Computing: Fortran, C, R, SAS, Matlab, Python