Wenrui Li
Candidate
Wenrui Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut. She obtained a BS degree in Statistics from Shandong University, a MS degree in Statistics from the University of Washington, and a PhD degree in Statistics from Boston University. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Li was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her methodological research interests include statistics for network data, causal inference under interference, high-dimensional data analysis, and statistical methods for infectious disease transmission and surveillance. She has extensive collaborative experiences in multiple domains of public health and medicine, and has provided statistical support in grant proposals for agencies such as the DOD and NIH. She is actively engaged in professional societies, including serving on the Scientific Program Committee for ICSA, the Student Paper Awards Committee for ASA/ENAR/NESS, and as Treasurer of ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium.
