Yanming Di

Department of Statistics
Oregon State University
235 Weniger Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: 541-737-1992
Fax: 541-737-3489
Email: diy@stat.oregonstate.edu
Homepage: http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/~diy/

A. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

A.1. Education

2004–2009 PhD, Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2001–2003 MS, Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1997–2000 MS, Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1993–1997 BS, Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

A.2. Employment

Oregon State University
Fall 2015–present Associate Professor of Statistics
Fall 2009–Summer 2015 Assistant Professor of Statistics
Fall 2010–present Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Fall 2011–present Faculty member of the multidisciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Graduate Program
University of Washington, Department of Statistics
2006–2009 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Thompson)
Summer 2008 Instructor
Fall 2005 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Michael Perlman)
2004–2005 Teaching Assistant
Brown University, Department of Mathematics
2003–2004 Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University, Department of Computer Science
Summer 2003 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Arunaba Sen, Prof. Huan Liu)
Arizona State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
2001–2003 Teaching Assistant

B. TEACHING, ADVISING AND OTHER ASSIGNMENT

B.1. Instructional Summary

Credit Courses

Curriculum Development

Curriculum committee service:
Winter 2014–present Committee for Developing Online MS Program in Data Analytics
Winter 2014–present Committee for Developing Certificate Program in Statistics for E-campus
Winter 2014–present Task force for coordinating curriculum in biological informatics, computational and systems biology
Fall 2011–Summer 2013 Department of Statistics Curriculum Committee

Meetings and forums attended:
November 2013 Meeting to discuss undergraduate education in Bioinformatics and Genomics and the BRR option
March 2012 Discussion forum on curriculum with MCB faculty

Graduate Students

B.5. Other Assignments

35% of my appointment is statistical consulting and collaboration with researchers in the College of Agriculture Sciences (CAS). I have provided formal consulting to more than 20 researchers at OSU (listed below, most are associated with the CAS), as well as many informal short-term discussions and consultations with students and faculty members.

C. SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

C.1. Publications

C.2. Presentations

C.3. Grants

C.5. Other

Statistical Software

2011–present NBPSeq
An R package for assessing differential gene expression from RNA-Sequencing data. I am the main developer and maintainer of this package. My PhD students and collaborators contributed codes and data sets to this package. This package is used in many published research papers.
2009 Civil
A program implementing conditional inheritance vector tests for genetic linkage analysis. The software has been released as part of the software package MORGAN 3. I was the main developer of this program.
2007 regsubseq
An R program for detecting regularities in event occurrence times. I was the main developer of this program.

D. SERVICE

D.1. University Service

University Committees

Jan 2014–present Task force: Coordinating curriculum in biological informatics, computational and systems biology
Sep 2013–present The Scientific Advisory Board for the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB)
Feb 2014–May 2014 Search Committee for the Director of MCB Program
Fall 2012–Spring 2013 CGRB Spring Conference organizing committee
Summer 2012–Winter 2013 Faculty Search Committee, Systems Biology of Host-Microbe Interactions, CGRB
Summer 2012–Winter 2013 Faculty Search Committee, Nucleic Acid Sequence Bioinformatics, CGRB
Summer 2012–Winter 2013 Biological Information and Genomics Cluster Hire Committee, CGRB
Fall 2011–Spring 2012 Task Force on Faculty Hiring Initiative in Biological Information and Genomics
Spring 2011 Search Committee for Assistant Professor (Systems Biology, CGRB)

Departmental Committees

Winter 2014–present Committee for online MS program in Data Analytics
Winter 2014–present Certificate Program for Ecampus Committee
Fall 2012–present Graduate Committee
Fall 2011–present Exam Committee
Winter 2015 Search Committee for Professor
Winter 2014 Search Committee for Assistant Professors
Summer 2013 Chair of the Search Committee for Instructor
Fall 2011–Summer 2013 Curriculum Committee
Spring 2011 Search Committee for Assistant Professors

D.2. Service to Profession

Referee for journals:
Journal Dates
Nature Protocols 03/2013
Bioinformatics10/2012
European Journal of Human Genetics01/2012
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2009, 03/2011, and 03/2011
Statistical Science 2009

Organized invited sessions for WNAR 2013, ICSA 2014, ICSA 2015 conferences.

E. AWARDS

E.1. National and International

2008 Travel award, Algebraic Statistics Workshop (MSRI, UC Berkeley)