Jingyi Jessica Li

Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Department of Human Genetics, and Department of Biomathematics
UCLA
http://jsb.ucla.edu/

Jingyi ‘Jessica’ Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Human Genetics and Department of Biomathematics at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Li obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Profs Peter J. Bickel and Haiyan Huang. Her research focuses on the junction of statistics and biology.

Sessions

Statistical Modeling to Quantitate the Central Dogma
Prof. Jingyi Jessica Li from UCLA Statistics will talk about how she used statistics to quantify the central dogma of biology: DNA becomes RNA, and RNA becomes protein.