We are delighted to welcome two Taiwanese scholars to our department as visiting researchers: student Jo-Ying Hung and professor Kuo-Jung Lee, both based at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research institution in Tainan.
Jo-Ying Hung is a PhD candidate in statistics at NCKU, where she previously earned her BBA and MS degrees. She is formally a visiting student observer who is working with professor Yu Shyr from August 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025, to explore meta-regression techniques for analyzing estimated odds rations and hazard ratios in clinical research and learn about developing, using, and improving advanced statistical methods, tools, and repositories for biomedical research with attention to RNA sequencing, omics, and other key areas of investigation. She has co-authored peer-reviewed papers published in Cardiovascular Diabetology, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, World Neurosurgery, and Scientific Reports, and won an Outstanding Doctoral Student Scholarship at NCKU.
Kuo-Jung Lee is director of the Institutional Research Division at NCKU, as well as a professor in its Department of Statistics and Institute of Data Science. His sabbatical in Nashville is made possible in part by a Senior Fulbright Research Grant. He earned his PhD in statistics at the University of Minnesota, won NCKU's Excellent Teacher Award in 2020, and was most recently first author of papers appearing in Statistics in Medicine and Nanomaterials (Basel). During his visiting scholar appointment, which runs through July 31, 2025, Dr. Lee will work on "Bayesian Feature Selection and Spatio-Temporal Joint Modeling to the Integration of Radiomics and Multiplatform Genomic Data."