Contact

  • Email: qingyan(dot)xiang(at)vumc(dot)org
  • Address: 2525 West End Ave. Suite 1100, Nashville, TN 37232.

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, US.
    • 2024 - present
  • Lead statistician (adjunct), the Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa.
    • 2024 - present (This is a joint appointment with VUMC)
  • Statistician, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, US.
    • 2024

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Boston University
    • Advisors: Judith Lok and Paola Sebastiani
  • M.S. in Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • B.E. in Food Science and engineering, Zhejiang University

Research interests

  • Methodology: causal inference, causal machine learning, AI/ML, genomics, clinical trials
  • Application: infectious disease (Tuberculosis and HIV), aging, pain research

Teaching

Teaching assistant

  • GRS MA 781, Estimation Theory. Boston University
    • 2020 fall
  • SPH BS 831, Genomics Data Mining. Boston University
    • 2022 spring

Instructor

  • BIOS 7352, Statistical Collaboration in Health Sciences II. Vanderbilt University.
    • 2026 spring - present