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News Coverage
Work Experience
- Sanofi, Statistical Project Leader (A.D.), 2026-Present
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Sr. Advisor - Statistics, 2023-2026
- Advisor - Statistics, 2020-2023
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Summer Biostatistical Research Fellow, 2019
- University of Connecticut, Course Instructor, 2018-2020
- UConn Health Center, Biostatistics Consultant, 2018-2022
- Travelers Insurance Company, Research Assistant, 2017-2018
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Connecticut, 2015-2020
- B.S. in Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2011-2015
Honors and Awards
- ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Poster Award (First Place), American Statistical Association. 2022
- Top 100 Lilly Innovator, Eli Lilly and Company. 2021
- ASA Student Paper Award - Statistical Computing/Graphics Section, American Statistical Association. 2020
- ASA Student Paper Award - Environment (Honorable Mention), American Statistical Association. (Declined) 2020
- Excellent in Probability, University of Connecticut. 2019
Selected Publications
- Hu, C., Pozdnyakov, V., and Yan, J. (2022). "On Occupation Time for Telegraph Processes with Multiple Off-States." Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications, 9(4), 413–430. (doi:10.15559/22-VMSTA210)
- Hu, C., Elbroch, L.M., Meyer, T., Pozdnyakov, V., and Yan, J. (2021) "Moving-Resting Process with Measurement Error in Animal Movement Modeling." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 2221–2233. (doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13694)
- Pozdnyakov, V., Elbroch, L.M., Hu, C., Meyer, T., and Yan, J. (2020). "On estimation for Brownian motion governed by telegraph process with multiple off states." Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 22, 1275–1291. (doi:10.1007/s11009-020-09774-1)
- Hu, C., Pozdnyakov, V., and Yan, J. (2020). "Density and Distribution Evaluation for Convolution of Independent Gamma Variables." Computational Statistics, 35:327. (doi:10.1007/s00180-019-00924-9)
Software
- niaidMI: R package, Imputes the NIAID OS scale using a Markov model.
- smam: R package, Statistical Modeling of Animal Movements.
- coga: R package, Convolution of Gamma Distributions.