Welcome to My Personal Webpage

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I received my Master of Science in Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Whiting School of Engineering also at Johns Hopkins University and Bachelor of Arts degree in Management Information System from Beijing University of Technology in China.

My primary advisor in Biostatistics is Dr. Michael Rosenblum. My co-advisors are Dr. Vadim Zipunnikov and Dr. Ravi Varadhan. My research interests focus primarily on clinical trial designs, covering the development and application of statistical methods for Phase I studies, Phase II studies and Phase III studies (e.g., dose-finding design; adaptive enrichment design; seamless trial design). You can find more information about my research activities on RESEARCH page.

I was the recipient of departmental First-year PhD Examination Award in 2014 and June B. Culley Award that honors outstanding achievement on preliminary school-wide examination paper in 2016. I am named United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) Scholar from 2015 to 2018.

I was a co-organizer of BIOSTAT COMPUTING CLUB for the academic year 2014-2015.

I can be reached at ydu10@jhu.edu