Bio
Dr. Xiaoyu Song is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Centre for Quantitative Medicine (CQM) and the Signature Program in Health Services & Systems Research (HSSR) at Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore (NUS). She graduated from Peking University with a bachelor of medicine degree and from Columbia University with master and doctor of public health degrees. Prior to joining NUS, Dr. Song was an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States (US).
Dr. Song has developed highly productive, continuously well-funded, independent and collaborative research programs in the development of statistical methods for omics data analysis. The omics data include genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and phenotypes, collected at the subject, tissue, or single-cell levels, with and without spatial features. Dr. Song has developed a suite of tools for their association, prediction, integration, visualization, and network analysis, shedding light on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer and other complex human diseases. Her research has been funded by >10 National Institute of Health (NIH) grants in the US, and generated >50 manuscripts in esteemed statistical and biological journals, such as Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and Cell.
Dr. Song is a member of the National Cancer Institutes’ Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and NIH’s BRAIN Initiative in the US. She is also a scientific reviewer for prominent funding agencies, such as NIH in US and the Cancer Research UK in the United Kingdom. Dr. Song is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award at Mount Sinai in 2022.
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/xiaoyu-song/home
Education
Doctor of Public Health
Columbia Univ, United States
Master of Public Health
Columbia Univ, United States
Bachelor of Medicine
Peking University, China