Professor You-Gan Wang

  Positions held

• May 2010– Sept 2015         Chair Professor of Applied Statistics, Director, Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics (CARM), School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland.
• May 2005 – April 2010  Senior Science Leader, CSIRO, Australia.
• Jun 2001 – May 2005     Associate Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore.
• Jan 2001 – May 2002     Associate Professor, Harvard University.
• Dec 1998 – Dec 2000     Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Education

• 1991 Statistics D.Phil, University of Oxford (Supervised by Prof JC Gittins)
• 1988 Statistics M.Sc, Peking University
• 1986 Mathematics B.Sc, Zhejiang University

Professional services

• Grant Reviews
• ARC Discovery, Linkage, DECRA
• National Science Foundation, USA
• Alaska Sea Grant
• Thesis and Senior Promotion Assessors

   Professional and administrative experiences

• Editorial Board of Biometrics (2013-present)
• Editorial Board of Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2015-present)
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
• Associate Editor of Electronic Journal of Statistics (2009-2011)
• Referee for major journals in statistics and its applications (roughly 15 per year)
• Organize International conferences and workshops
• External Evaluator for the Center for Pharmaceutical Administration and the Center for Drug Evaluation, Singapore.
• Program committee for the international conferences (IBC, IMS)

Editorial boards

• Associate Editor of Biometrics
• Advisory Editor of Environmental Modeling & Assessment
• Associate Editor of EJS (2010-2012)

Research Grants and Projects

New ARC Discovery Grant (2016-2018) (Sole CI): Generalised degree of freedom and probablistic regulisation (DP160104292) ($300,000).



Jun 2013-Jun 2016
ARC Discovery Grant (Sole CI): Robust inferences for analysis of longitudinal data (DP130100766) ($330,000).


 an 2012-Dec 2014
ARC Linkage Grant (one of the Chief Investigators): Multi-scale, two-phase flow in complex coal seam systems ($377,800).


Jul 2007 – Jun 2008
FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Calculating recent foreign fishing vessel numbers us­ing established estimators based on coastwatch surveillance and appre­hension data ($93,471).


Jul 2006 – Dec 2006
FRDC grant (Principal Investigator): Estimating Reliable Foreign Fishing Vessel Fishing Effort from Coastwatch Surveillance and Apprehension Data ($143,358).


Mar 2004 – Feb 2005
Chief Investigator of “Phase I/II designs for multiple out­ comes” (S$93,685) .


Jun 2003 – May 2006
Chief Investigator of “Robust Methods for Analysis of Lon­gitudinal Data” (S$113,054) .


Apr 2002 – Mar 2004
Chief Investigator of “Analysis of Clustered Data Analysis” (S$32,500).


Oct 1998 – Apr 2001
Protocol development and data analysis for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG 377, ACTG 225, ACTG381, ACTG391, ACTG1018, ACTG1012).


Oct 1998 – Apr 2001:
Statistical Modeling and Parameter Estimation in AIDS Clinical Trials  (R01:AI24643, PI: S. Lagakos).


Apr 1997 – Mar 2000
Senior Statistical Consultant, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen­ter, New York, on Parameter Estimation in Sequential Clinical Trials (NIH Grant CA74207).


Jul 1998 – Dec 1998
Coinvestigator of “Risk analysis for the Northern Prawn Fishery” (A$620,000).


Jul 1995 – Dec 1997
Principal Investigator, of “Estimation of survival and growth for Aus­tralian Prawn Fisheries” (A$220,000).


Jul 1992 – Jun 1997
Population dynamics and Bioeconomic study for Northern Prawn Fishery, CSIRO.


Oct 1991 – Jun 1992
Cohort and Case-Control study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Cancer Research; Children Injury Prevention and Statistical Consult­ing at Menzies Centre for population Health Research, University of Tasmania.


Sep 1988 – May 1991
Study for the D.Phil on Decision Theory under supervision of Professor J.C. Gittins, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.