Jie Peng
Department of Statistics Tel: (530) 754-6905 (office)
University of California Email:jie$wald.ucdavis.edu
Davis, CA 95616 Web:http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~jie
Education
2000.9-2004.9 Stanford University
PHD in Statistics
Advisor: David.O.Siegmund
Dissertation: Score Statistics to Map Genes in Humans (September, 2004)
1996.9-2000.7 Peking University
BS in Mathematics
Graduate Thesis: Surfaces of Constant Negative Curvature and Backlund Transformation (March, 2000)
statistical genetics/genomics, linkage analysis, variance-component models, admixture models, boundary crossing problems, population genetics
Employment
2004.9-present Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
2003.6-2003.9 Summer Internship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
Awards and Honors
2004.6 Teaching Award for Outstanding Service as a Teaching Assistant
2000-2003 Stanford Graduate Fellowship
The Stanford Graduate Fellowships Program in Science and Engineering annually awards 110 three-year fellowships providing tuition support and stipend to outstanding students pursuing a doctoral degree in the sciences and engineering.
Peng, J. and Siegmund, D.(2006). Mapping Quantitative Traits under Ascertainment,
accepted for publication by Ann. Hum. Genet. [pdf]Peng, J., Tang, H-K. and Siegmund, D.(2005). Genome Scans with Gene-Covariate Interaction, Genet. Epidemiol. 29: 173-184 [pdf]
Tang, H., Peng, J., Wang, P. and and Risch, N.(2005). Estimation of Individual Admixture: Analytical and Study Design Considerations, Genet. Epidemiol 28: 289-301 [pdf]
Peng, J. and Siegmund, D.(2005). The Admixture Model in Linkage Analysis, J. Statist. Planning and Inference, Volume 130, Issues 1-2, 317-324. [pdf]
Peng, J. and Siegmund, D.(2004). Mapping Quantitative Traits with Random and with Ascertained Sibships, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7845-7850. [pdf]
Peng, J., Tang, H-K. and Siegmund, D.(2005). Information Content of Multipoint Analysis and Efficiency of Two-Stage Genotyping, in preparation.
Aug 7, 2005 Genome Scan with Gene-Covariate Interaction (JSM, contributed talk)
[pdf]Jul. 9, 2005 QTL Mapping under Ascertainment (CSPS/IMS, contributed talk) [pdf]
Jun. 22, 2005 Microsatellites and SNPs: Study of Threshold and Power (WNAR, contributed talk)
[pdf]May 2, 2003 Single Locus QTL model with Ascertainment (Industrial Affiliates Conference, talk) [ps]
Nov. 5, 2003 Ascertainment Corrections in Variance-Component Model (ASHG annual meeting, poster) [ps]
Nov. 6, 2003 Information Content of Multipoint Analysis and Efficiency of Two-Stage Genotyping (ASHG annual meeting, poster) [ps]
Teaching
As instructor: Stat120 (Probability for Engineers, winter 2005; fall 2005); Stat100 (Applied Statistics for Biological Science, spring 2005); Stat130a (Brief Mathematical Statistics, fall 2005)
As teaching assistant (2000-2004, Stanford): provide assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistics, probability and computational biology. Teach classes, hold TA sessions and office hours, prepare and grade homework, exams and term projects, write solutions and help students with computing problems.
Consulting
2000-2004 Provide advice and interpret results on statistical problems to members of the Stanford community in areas such as estimation, testing hypothesis, model fitting, functional data analysis, classification, prediction, sequential analysis, etc.
Computing Skills
Proficient in C, FORTRAN, S-plus, Matlab, SAS and Perl.