Min Chen, Ph.D.

Undergraduate	University of Science Technology - China (1994), Computer Sciences
Graduate School	University of Pittsburgh Main Campus (1999), Statistics
Graduate School	University of Texas at Austin (2006), Statistics

• Cancer genetics/epigenetics
• Genome wide association and risk prediction
• Methods for preprocessing genomic data
• Next generation sequencing data analysis
• Spatial modeling

Featured Publications

An Exponential-Gamma Convolution Model for Background Correction of Illumina BeadArray Data.

Chen M, Xie Y, Story M Communications in statistics: theory and methods 2011 Sep 40 17 3055-3069

Incorporating biological pathways via a Markov random field model in genome-wide association studies

Chen, M., Cho, J. and Zhao, H. PLoS Genetics 2011 7 4 e1001353

Detecting epistatic SNPs associated with complex diseases via a Bayesian classification tree search method

Chen, M., Cho, J. and Zhao, H. Ann Hum Genet 2011 75 112-121

Approximate Predictive Densities and Their Applications in Generalized Linear Models

Chen, M. and Wang, X. Computational Statistics and Data Analysi 2011 55 4 1570-1580

MixHMM: Infering Copy Number Variation and Allelic Imbalance using SNP Arrays from Tumor Samples Mixed with Stromal Cells

Liu, Z., Li, A., Schulz, V., Chen, M., Tuck , D. PLoS ONE 2010 5(6):e10909

• David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship
  University of Texas at Austin (2006)
• R. L. Anderson Student Paper Award
  Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS)/ASA Summer Research Conference on Statistics (2006)
• University Tuition Fellowship
  University of Texas at Austin (2005)
• McCombs School of Business Fellowship
  University of Texas at Austin (2004)
• Best Junior Graduate Student Award
  Dept. of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh (1999)

• American Society of Human Genetics
• American Statistical Association
• International Chinese Statistical Association