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Australian statistician & academic

**Jean Yee Hwa Yang** [FRSN](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_New_South_Wales) is an Australian statistician known for her work on [variance reduction](/source/Variance_reduction) for [microarrays](/source/Microarray),[1] and for inferring proteins from [mass spectrometry](/source/Mass_spectrometry) data.[2] Yang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney).[3]

## Education and career

Yang earned a bachelor's degree with first class honours and a University Medal from the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney) in 1996, in mathematics and statistics.[4]

After working for half a year at the [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation](/source/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation),[4] Yang then went to the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_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](/source/Terry_Speed).[4][5]

Yang did postdoctoral research in [biostatistics](/source/Biostatistics) and [bioinformatics](/source/Bioinformatics) with Mark R. Segal at the [University of California, San Francisco](/source/University_of_California%2C_San_Francisco), where she became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005, she returned to the University of Sydney with a faculty position.[4]

## Recognition

In 2015, Yang was the winner of the [Moran Medal](/source/Moran_Medal) of the [Australian Academy of Science](/source/Australian_Academy_of_Science) for her "significant contributions to the development of statistical methodology for analyzing molecular data arising in contemporary biomedical research".[1] She was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of New South Wales](/source/Royal_Society_of_New_South_Wales) in 2025.[6]

## Selected publications

- Yang, Yee Hwa; [Speed, Terry](/source/Terry_Speed) (2002), "Design issues for cDNA microarray experiments", *Nature Reviews Genetics*, **3** (8): 579–588, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1038/nrg863](https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnrg863), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [12154381](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12154381), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [260480](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:260480)

- [Dudoit, Sandrine](/source/Sandrine_Dudoit); Yang, Yee Hwa; Callow, Matthew J.; [Speed, Terence P.](/source/Terry_Speed) (2002), "Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in replicated cDNA microarray experiments", *Statistica Sinica*, **12** (1): 111–139, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [24307038](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24307038), [MR](/source/MR_(identifier)) [1894191](https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1894191)

- Yang, Yee Hwa; [Dudoit, Sandrine](/source/Sandrine_Dudoit); Luu, Percy; Lin, David M.; Peng, Vivian; [Ngai, John](/source/Terry_Speed); Speed, Terence P. (2002), "Normalization for cDNA microarray data: a robust composite method addressing single and multiple slide systematic variation", *[Nucleic Acids Research](/source/Nucleic_Acids_Research)*, **30** (4): e15, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/nar/30.4.e15](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2F30.4.e15), [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [100354](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC100354), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [11842121](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11842121)

- [Gentleman, Robert C.](/source/Robert_Gentleman_(statistician)); Carey, Vincent J.; Bates, Douglas M.; Bolstad, Ben; [Dettling, Marcel](/source/Marcel_Dettling); [Dudoit, Sandrine](/source/Sandrine_Dudoit); Ellis, Byron; Gautier, Laurent; Ge, Yongchao; Gentry, Jeff; Hornik, Kurt; Hothorn, Torsten; Huber, Wolfgang; Iacus, Stefano; Irizarry, Rafael; Leisch, Friedrich; Li, Cheng; Maechler, Martin; Rossini, Anthony J.; Sawitzki, Gunther; Smith, Colin; Smyth, Gordon; Tierney, Luke; Yang, Jean Y. H.; Zhang, Jianhua (2004), "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics", *[Genome Biology](/source/Genome_Biology)*, **5** (10): R80, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80](https://doi.org/10.1186%2Fgb-2004-5-10-r80), [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [545600](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545600), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [15461798](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15461798)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-moran_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-moran_1-1) ["2015 Moran Medal for research in statistics"](https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2015-awardees#moran), *2015 awardees*, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2018-02-27

1. **[^](#cite_ref-garvan_2-0)** [*Mathematicians solving today's problems of systems biology*](https://www.garvan.org.au/news-events/news/mathematicians-solving-today2019s-problems-of-2018systems-biology2019), Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 21 March 2012

1. **[^](#cite_ref-profile_3-0)** [*Professor Jean Yang*](http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/jean.yang.php), School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, retrieved 2018-02-27

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-cv_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-cv_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-cv_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-cv_4-3) [*Curriculum vitae*](https://web.archive.org/web/20180228162735/http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/YangCV2013.pdf) (PDF), 2013, archived from [the original](http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/YangCV2013.pdf) (PDF) on 2018-02-28, retrieved 2018-02-27

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mgp_5-0)** [Jean Yang](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=80917) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Society welcomes new Members and Fellows: May 2025"](https://www.royalsoc.org.au/society-welcomes-new-members-and-fellows-may-2025/). *The Royal Society of NSW*. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 2025-06-26.

## External links

- [Home page](http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/jeany/)

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