Yildiz Yilmaz
PhD (Waterloo)
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Room HH-3035
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
(709) 864-8069
yyilmaz@mun.ca
Research Interests
Survival analysis, Event history analysis, Statistical genetics, Genetic epidemiology, Incomplete data analysis, Multivariate analysis, Causal inference
Education
- 2009 PhD in Statistics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 2004 MSc in Statistics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
- 2004 MSc in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU)
- 2002 BSc in Statistics (with minor in Computer Engineering), Middle East Technical University (METU)
Professional Experience
- 2019 - present Associate Professor in the Deparment of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University, Canada
- 2013 – 2019 Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and in the Discipline of Genetics with a cross appointment in the Discipline of Medicine, Memorial University, Canada
- 2009 – 2013 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 2011 – 2013 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Teaching Responsibilities
Course chair and instructor:
- STAT 3410 - Probability and Statistics (2013F, 2014F, 2015F, 2016F & 2017F)
- STAT 3411 - Statistical Inference I (2014W & 2019F)
- STAT 4590 - Statistical Analysis of Data I (2016W)
- STAT 4410 - Statistical Inference II (2017F)
- STAT 6505 - Survival Analysis (2014F, 2016F & 2018F)
- STAT 6561 - Categorical Data Analysis (2020W)
- MED 6260 - Applied Data Analysis for Clinical Epidemiology (2014W, 2015W & 2016W)
Coordinator:
- STAT 697A & STAT 697B - Graduate Seminar in Statistics (2016F & 2017W, 2018F & 2019W)
Guest Lecturer:
- MED 6393 - Human Molecular Genetics (2016F)
- MED 6390 - Population Genetics (2017W)
- MED 6395 - Genetic Epidemiology (2018W)
Research
Dr. Yilmaz’s research interests are in the areas of statistical theory and methodology, and in statistical methods in biostatistics and statistical genetics. In particular, her work focuses on survival analysis, event history analysis, multivariate modeling and analysis, causal inference, incomplete data analysis and response-selective sampling. Her work has been motivated by important problems in biomedicine and genetics.
She currently has the following research programs within the field of statistics, genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics: 1) development and application of novel methods to model time-to-event phenotypes in genome-wide prognosis studies, 2) development and application of novel genetic association methods based on joint models and directional models of multiple phenotypes, and 3) evaluation of designs and statistical methods under response-dependent sampling, and 4) development of methods to model multivariate survival times.
Group Members
- Mr. Yongho Lim (PhD student in Statistics)
- Dr. Sarah Wozney (MSc student in Medicine)
- Ms. Muntaha Mushfiquee (MAS student)
- Mr. Marco Sanchez Ortega (MSc student in Statistics)
- Ms. Anuthrika Thushyanthan (MSc student in Statistics)
- Ms. Sarah Organ (Joint Honours student in Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
- Mr. Brady Ryan (Joint Honours student in Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Former Post-doctoral, Graduate, Honours and Undergraduate Summer Students
- Dr. Yanjing He (completed post-doctoral fellowship in Statistics and Genetics, 2015)
- Dr. Stefan Konigorski (completed PhD in Informatics, 2018)
- Ms. Ananthika Nirmalkanna (completed MSc in Statistics, 2018)
- Ms. Michelle Penney (completed MSc in Human Genetics, 2018)
- Dr. Tzuemn-Renn Lin (completed MSc in Statistics, 2018)
- Ms. Patricia Judd (completed MSc in Statistics, 2016)
- Ms. Yuan Wang (completed MSc in Statistics, 2015)
- Mr. Stefan Konigorski (completed MSc in Biostatistics, 2013)
- Ms. Faith Lee (completed Honours BSc in Statistics, 2016)
- Ms. Ananthika Nirmalkanna (MUCEP, 2015)
- Ms. Faith Lee (SURA, 2015S)
- Mr. Lucas Hynes (SURA, 2017S)
- Mr. Brady Ryan (USRA, 2019S)
Financial Support (since 2013)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI)
- Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University
- Research and Development Corporation (RDC) of Newfoundland and Labrador
Publications
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=pM_yMhQAAAAJ&hl=en