Author: Grace Y. Yi

Grace Y. Yi is Professor of Statistics and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. Her broad research interests include measurement error models, missing data problems, high dimensional data analysis, survival data and longitudinal data analysis, estimating function and likelihood methods, and medical applications. Prof. Yi received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Toronto in 2000.  She is the 2010 winner of the CRM-SSC Prize, an honor awarded in recognition of a statistical scientist”s professional accomplishments in research during the first 15 years after having received a doctorate. She was a recipient of the prestigious University Faculty Award granted by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). She serves as an associate editor for several statistical journals, and is the editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics (2016-2018). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. She is President of the Biostatistics Section of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2016, and the Founder and Chair of the first chapter (Canada Chapter) of the  International Chinese Statistical Association.