Dr. Xie is Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University. Her research is motivated by problems related to biomedical studies. Currently, she is focusing on genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genetics genomics data (eQTL) and neuron imaging data. Methodologically and theoretically, Dr. Xie's research area includes large-scale multiple testing, variable selection and high dimensional sparse network estimation.

Dr. Yang received her PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Iowa State in 2014. She is Assistant Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Dr. Yang's current research interests include causal inference in longitudinal observational data, semiparametric efficient estimation, and missing data analysis and imputation methods.

Dr. Staicu received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Toronto in 2007. She is Associate Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Dr. Staicu's current research interests include functional data analysis, biostatistics, and conditional inference.