Education

• Ph.D. (2005) Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Florida 
• M.Stat. (2002) Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Florida 
• M.S. (1998) Plant biology, China Agricultural University , Beijing, China

Research Interests

• Statistical genetics: Genetic linkage and association study, QTL, eQTL, QTN, and functional mapping of complex traits/diseases
• Statistical models in genomic imprinting, Large scale genome-wide association study
• Genetical genomics, and Gene network
• Statistical genomics, Microarray data analysis
• Longitudinal data analysis, Functional data analysis, Mixture model

Funded Research Grants

• Sole PI, 06/07-05/10, National Science Foundation (DMS-0707031)
• Sole PI, 12/06-12/08, MSU Intramural Research Grant (06-IRGP-789)
• Co-PI (with Wenjiang Fu), 01/06-10/07, NIH subcontract

Honors and Awards

• Sigma Xi full membership, The Scientific Research Socienty, 2008
• Junior Faculty Award, Michigan State University Chapter of Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society, 2008
• William L. Harkness Instructional Innovation Award, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 2007
• Mu Sigma Rho membership, Statistics Honor Society, 2003
• Superfund Graduate Fellow, Superfund Basic Research Program Center for Environmental & Human Toxicology, University of Florida, 2002-2004
• University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2000-2001

Selected Publications

• Cui, Y. H., G. Casella and R.L. Wu. (2004) Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Interactions From the Maternal and Offspring Genomes. Genetics, 167: 1017-1026.
• Cui, Y. H. and R.L. Wu. (2005) Mapping genome-genome epistasis: a high-dimensional model. Bioinformatics, 21: 2447-2455 .
• Cui, Y. H., J. Zhu and R. L. Wu. (2006) Functional mapping for genetic control of programmed cell death. Physiological Genomics 25: 458-469.
• Cui, Y.H. (2007) A Statistical Framework for Genome-wide Scanning and Testing Imprinted Quantitative Trait Loci. Journal of Theoretical Biology 244: 115-126.
• Cui, Y.H., G.L. Kang, K.L. Sun, R. Romero, M. Qian, and W.J. Fu. (2008) Gene-centric Genomewide Association Study via Entropy. Genetics 179(1): 637-650.

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