Ying Guo

Professor

Director , Emory Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics (CBIS)

Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Rollins School of Public Health

Emory University

Email: yguo2 at emory dot edu

A pdf of Dr. Guo's CV can be found here

Education and Professional Experience

2019-Present, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
2016-Present, Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics (CBIS), Emory University
2014-2015, Acting Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics (CBIS), Emory University
2013-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
2009-Present, Graduate Training Faculty, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University
2006-2013, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, USA
2004-2006, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Emory University, USA
2004, Ph.D., Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, USA
1998-2000, M.S. ,program Renmin University of China
1998, B.S., Renmin University of China

Research Interests

Imaging Statistics; Brain Network Analysis; Dimension Reduction; Blind Source Separation; Independent Component Analysis (ICA); Agreement and Reliability Methods; Multimodal Data Analysis; Predictive Modeling, Hierarchical Models; Statistical Methods for Mental Health, Child Development studies and Women's Health.

Honors and Awards

The Michael H. Kutner Distinguished Alumni Award, 2023
Standing Member of NIH Emerging Imaging Technologies in Neuroscience (EITN) Study Section
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2018
Featured in Emory Health Sciences News "Trio in biostatistics: 'Role models for us all' "
Featured in Emory Rollins Magazine "Finding Mental Disorders with Math"
Honorable Mention in Biostatistics Teaching Award: Course “Biostatistical Methods I” [2013,2018], Course “Advanced Topics in Neuroimaging Statistics” [2016], Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
R.L. Anderson Award of Summer Research Conference on Statistics, 2005

Selected Service

Chair-Elect 2022, Chair 2023, Chair-Past 2024, American Statistical Association(ASA) Statistics in Imaging Section.
Organizing Committee Member, The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Workshop on Advanced Statistical Methods and Dynamic Data Visualizations, 2021.
Principal Organizer, Statistical Methods in Imaging (SMI) 2021 Conference
President, Georgia Chapter of American Statistical Association, 2017-2018
International Biometry Society ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award Committee, 2017-2020.
Program Chair, American Statistical Association(ASA) Statistics in Imaging Section, 2015-2016.
Editorial Service:

2025-Pres. Journal of the American Statistical Association Associate Editor

2021-2023. Statistics in Biosciences Associate Editor

2019-2023 Biometrics Associate Editor

2013-2015 Psychosomatic Medicine Statistical Editor

Teaching

Emory University

BIOS 506: Biostatistical Methods I

BIOS 516: Introduction to Large-Scale Biomedical Data Analysis

BIOS 508: Categorical Data Analysis

BIOS 760R: Advanced Topics in Neuroimaging Statistics

BIOS 780R: Research Methods in Biostatistics

BIOS 706: Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis

Conferences

Short Course “Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Brain Imaging Data” in International Biometrics Society (ENAR) Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March, 2009. (jointly taught with F.D. Bowman).

Short Course “Statistical Methods for Brain Network Analysis Using Multimodal Imaging Data” in International Biometrics Society (ENAR) Meeting, 2017. (Jointly taught with Phebe B. Kemmer)