{{short description|Australian statistician & academic}} {{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=April 2022}} '''Jean Yee Hwa Yang''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FRSN}} is an Australian statistician known for her work on [[variance reduction]] for [[microarray]]s,{{r|moran}} and for inferring proteins from [[mass spectrometry]] data.{{r|garvan}} Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the [[University of Sydney]].{{r|profile}}
==Education and career== Yang earned a bachelor's degree with first class honours and a University Medal from the [[University of Sydney]] in 1996, in mathematics and statistics.{{r|cv}}
After working for half a year at the [[Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation]],{{r|cv}} Yang then went to the [[University of California, Berkeley]], for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002. Her dissertation, "Statistical methods in the design and analysis of gene expression data from cDNA microarray experiment", was supervised by [[Terry Speed]].{{r|cv|mgp}}
Yang did postdoctoral research in [[biostatistics]] and [[bioinformatics]] with Mark R. Segal at the [[University of California, San Francisco]], where she became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005, she returned to the University of Sydney with a faculty position.{{r|cv}}
==Recognition== In 2015, Yang was the winner of the [[Moran Medal]] of the [[Australian Academy of Science]] for her "significant contributions to the development of statistical methodology for analyzing molecular data arising in contemporary biomedical research".{{r|moran}} She was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of New South Wales]] in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-28 |title=Society welcomes new Members and Fellows: May 2025 |url=https://www.royalsoc.org.au/society-welcomes-new-members-and-fellows-may-2025/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=The Royal Society of NSW}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *{{citation | last1 = Yang | first1 = Yee Hwa | last2 = Speed | first2 = Terry | author2-link = Terry Speed | doi = 10.1038/nrg863 | pmid = 12154381 | issue = 8 | journal = Nature Reviews Genetics | pages = 579–588 | title = Design issues for cDNA microarray experiments | volume = 3 | year = 2002| s2cid = 260480 }} *{{citation | last1 = Dudoit | first1 = Sandrine | author1-link = Sandrine Dudoit | last2 = Yang | first2 = Yee Hwa | last3 = Callow | first3 = Matthew J. | last4 = Speed | first4 = Terence P. | author4-link = Terry Speed | issue = 1 | journal = Statistica Sinica | jstor = 24307038 | mr = 1894191 | pages = 111–139 | title = Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in replicated cDNA microarray experiments | volume = 12 | year = 2002}} *{{citation | last1 = Yang | first1 = Yee Hwa | last2 = Dudoit | first2 = Sandrine | author2-link = Sandrine Dudoit | last3 = Luu | first3 = Percy | last4 = Lin | first4 = David M. | last5 = Peng | first5 = Vivian | last6 = Ngai | first6 = John | last7 = Speed | first7 = Terence P. | author6-link = Terry Speed | doi = 10.1093/nar/30.4.e15 | issue = 4 | journal = [[Nucleic Acids Research]] | page = e15 | title = Normalization for cDNA microarray data: a robust composite method addressing single and multiple slide systematic variation | volume = 30 | year = 2002| pmc = 100354 | pmid = 11842121 }} *{{citation | last1 = Gentleman | first1 = Robert C. | author1-link = Robert Gentleman (statistician) | last2 = Carey | first2 = Vincent J. | last3 = Bates | first3 = Douglas M. | last4 = Bolstad | first4 = Ben | last5 = Dettling | first5 = Marcel |author5-link = Marcel Dettling | last6 = Dudoit | first6 = Sandrine | author6-link = Sandrine Dudoit | last7 = Ellis | first7 = Byron | last8 = Gautier | first8 = Laurent | last9 = Ge | first9 = Yongchao | last10 = Gentry | first10 = Jeff | last11 = Hornik | first11 = Kurt | last12 = Hothorn | first12 = Torsten | last13 = Huber | first13 = Wolfgang | last14 = Iacus | first14 = Stefano | last15 = Irizarry | first15 = Rafael | last16 = Leisch | first16 = Friedrich | last17 = Li | first17 = Cheng | last18 = Maechler | first18 = Martin | last19 = Rossini | first19 = Anthony J. | last20 = Sawitzki | first20 = Gunther | last21 = Smith | first21 = Colin | last22 = Smyth | first22 = Gordon | last23 = Tierney | first23 = Luke | last24 = Yang | first24 = Jean Y. H. | last25 = Zhang | first25 = Jianhua | doi = 10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80 | pmid = 15461798 | issue = 10 | journal = [[Genome Biology]] | page = R80 | title = Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics | volume = 5 | year = 2004| pmc = 545600 | doi-access = free }}
==References== <references>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/YangCV2013.pdf|year=2013|title=Curriculum vitae|access-date=2018-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228162735/http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/YangCV2013.pdf|archive-date=2018-02-28}}</ref>
<ref name=garvan>{{citation|url=https://www.garvan.org.au/news-events/news/mathematicians-solving-today2019s-problems-of-2018systems-biology2019|title=Mathematicians solving today's problems of systems biology|publisher=Garvan Institute of Medical Research|date=21 March 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=profile>{{citation|url=http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/jean.yang.php|title=Professor Jean Yang|publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
<ref name=mgp>{{mathgenealogy|id=80917}}</ref>
<ref name=moran>{{citation|url=https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2015-awardees#moran|title=2015 Moran Medal for research in statistics|work=2015 awardees|publisher=Australian Academy of Science|access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *[http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/ Home page]
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