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Yangjianchen Xu

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
N2L 3G1 Canada

Email: yangjc@uwaterloo.ca

Openings

I am recruiting self-motivated Master's and Ph.D. students. If you are interested, please email me your CV and transcript(s).

Research Interests

My research focuses on the analysis of time-to-event data. Specifically, I am interested in developing novel statistical methods and theory in semiparametric modeling, data privacy, transfer learning and causal inference, with a particular emphasis on time-to-event outcomes. On the application side, I apply these methods to analyze data from clinical trials, epidemiological cohort studies, the UK Biobank, and electronic health records (EHR), aiming to generate meaningful scientific insights. As an example, my collaborators and I have previously published a series of papers evaluating the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Several keywords of my research:

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