Ryan Sun

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. I received my BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University in 2012 and my PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2017. My PhD advisor was Professor Xihong Lin, and I also worked closely with Professor Peter Kraft, Professor LJ Wei, and Professor David Christiani. I remained at Harvard for my postdoctoral training and joined MD Anderson in July 2019.

My research interests lie in developing novel statistical methodology that enables researchers to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly complex biomedical datasets. Please see the Research page for short summaries of different areas of work.

Curriculum Vitae CV as pdf
Orcid: 0000-0003-1176-1561
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Recent News

  • 2024/10 - Our paper on performing mediation, pleiotropy, and replication analyses in genome-wide studies has been accepted at the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
  • 2024/10 - New positions for postdoctoral fellows and GRAs are open in the lab. Please see our job ad.
  • 2024/09 - We are grateful to NIGMS for the award of 1R35GM154843, which will fund new methodology development for large-scale testing of composite null hypotheses.
  • 2024/09 - Congratulations to our former lab member Jaihee Choi on starting her new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Marquette University! Rice also offered their congratulations in a press release.
  • 2024/07 - Zhichao Xu’s paper on set-based inference for genetic association studies with competing risks outcomes is published in Statistics in Biosciences.
  • 2024/04 - Jaihee Choi has successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Jaihee!
  • 2024/04 - Huili Zhu’s paper on gene-environment interactions is published in JCO Precision Oncology.
  • 2024/04 - Jaihee Choi’s paper on variance components testing in genetic association studies with interval-censored outcomes is published at Statistics in Medicine.
  • 2024/03 - Jaihee Choi has won an IBS Distinguished Student Paper Award at ENAR.
  • 2024/03 - Jaihee Choi has won the James R. Thompson award for outstanding student in the Rice University Department of Statistics.

Contact

Ryan Sun
Department of Biostatistics
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1400 Pressler Street, Unit 1410
Houston, Texas 77040
USA

Email: rsjumblejumbleun3@mdanderson.org
Phone: 713-745-0373
Ryan Sun

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