Jun Yan
Council Member
Dr. Jun Yan is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at
the University of Connecticut (UConn) and a Research Fellow in
the Center for Population Health at UConn Health. He received
his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin--Madison
in 2003. He was on the faculty of the Department of Statistics
and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa for four years
before joining UConn in 2007. Dr. Yan's methodological research
interests include survival analysis, clustered data analysis,
spatial extremes, and statistical computing. His application
domains are public health, environmental sciences, and sports.
With a special interest in making his statistical methods available
via open-source software, he and his co-authors developed and
maintain a collection of R packages in the public domain. He has
contributed to NESS as a workshop instructor and organizing
committee member. He was chair of the organizing committee of
the 33rd New England Statistics Symposium in 2019. Since July
2020, he has been the editor of the Journal of Data Science and
led the reform of the journal. Dr. Yan is an Elected Member of
the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American
Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics.
