Yuxuan W.

Yuxuan W. currently serves as a Research Assistant at Boston University School of Public Health, focusing on projects related to functional gene prioritization in lipid-associated loci, rare variant associations with plasma lipid traits, and the impact of GWAS heterogeneity on PRS predictive accuracy. Additionally, Yuxuan is a Graduate Teaching Associate at the Framingham Heart Study within Boston University School of Medicine. Prior experience includes a role as a Data Analyst at the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences and a Biostatistics Summer Intern where the work involved analyzing clustered time-to-event data with competing risks. Yuxuan W. is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics at Boston University, following a Master of Science in the same field from Yale School of Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, complemented by exchange studies at Case Western Reserve University and summer courses in pharmacology at The University of British Columbia.