Curriculum Vitae

EXPERIENCE

  • Research Statistician in Border Biomedical Research Center of UT El Paso January 2023 - Now

    Job description:

    • providing statistical consulting service
    • Present statistical results, using charts, bullets, and graphs, in meetings to clients
    • data cleaning and data preparation

  • Research Specialist in Border Biomedical Research Center of UT El Paso July 2023 - December 2023

    Job description: statistical consulting

  • Research Assistant in Data Analytics Lab of UT El Paso September 2020 - June 2023

    Job description:

    • data cleaning and data preparation
    • SAS/R/Matlab programming
    • programming for statistical modeling

  • Teaching Assistant August 2015 - August 2020

    Job description: Hosting workshops, grading assignments, and tutoring math for undergraduate students.

  • Software Engineer September 2013 - May 2015

    Shanghai Integle Information Technology Limited Company

    Job description: Developing a notebook to record chemistry experiments

    Used skills: Java, PHP and MySQL

RESEARCH

  • Mixture of Dirichlet process
  • Mixture of experts
  • Statistical copulas
  • Biostatistics
  • Survey analysis

Skills

  • SAS base (Proficient)
  • Matlab (Proficient)
  • R (Proficient)
  • C/C++ (Intermediate)
  • SQL (Intermediate)
  • Statistical consulting (on Medical Real Data)
  • Familiar with medical data and terminologies
  • SAS/R/Matlab programming
  • Deployment and maintenance SAS development environment on Windows or Linux/Unix

PUBLICATIONS

  • Minimally Invasive versus Open Synchronous Resection of Colorectal Primary and Liver Metastases: a Propensity Score Matched Analysis, Elizabeth L Carpenter, MD, Franklin A Valdera, MD, Holly V Spitzer, DO, Amy E Wagler, PhD, Panfeng Liang, MS, Daniel W. Nelson, DO, Timothy J. Vreeland, MD
  • Nomogram to Predict Adjuvant Chemotherapy Benefit in Stage IB/IIA Lung Cancer, Kayla Rizzo, DO; Panfeng Liang, MS; Amy Wagler, PhD; Daniel W. Nelson, DO; Nathan Paul Zwintscher, MD
  • Benefits of the Volume-outcome Association in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Depend on Patient Level Risk S. Hornock, P.K. Bohan, P. Liang, T.J. Vreeland, A. Wagler, D.W. Nelson
  • Characteristics of Health Care Workers with COVID-19 in Mainland China: Rapid Containment of COVID-19 among Health Care Workers Springer Nature (2020), Mingkun Zhan, Robert L. Anders, Min Zhang, Bihua Lin, Amy E. Wagler, Liliana Acosta Alvarez, Panfeng Liang.

Presentation

  • “Nonparametric Estimation of Elliptical Copulas”, Saturday September 17, 2022, AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Sessions on Statistical Methodology and Applications II

Education

  • University of Texas at El Paso

    PhD, Computational Science

    January 2018 - May 2023

  • University of Texas at El Paso

    Master of Science, Statistics

    August 2015 - December 2017

  • Minzu University of China

    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

    September 2009 - July 2013