Ph. D. student

E-mail: shijia dot bian at emory dot edu

Shijia received her BS in Statistics, Economics and Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) from University of Washington - Seattle in 2013. She completed her MS in Statistics at Duke University in 2016. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory. Her research interest is in developing statistical methods for genetic discovery in Alzheimer’s disease that can potentially help future drug development. She enjoys playing with her cats, painting, hiking and cooking in her spare time.

 Publications:

• Identifying latent genetic interactions in genome-wide association studies using multiple traits. Genome Medicine 16(62), April 25, 2024