Xiaoxiao Sun
- Associate Professor, Public Health
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Contact
Degrees
- Ph.D. Statistics
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
- M.S. Statistics
- Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
- B.S. Statistics
- Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2018 - Ongoing)
Awards
- Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award
- University of Georgia, Spring 2019
- Student Paper Award
- American Statistical Association, Statistical Computing and Graphics Section, Fall 2018
- Student Paper Award Finalist
- American Statistical Association, Nonparametric Statistics Section, Fall 2017 (Award Finalist)
Interests
Research
Nonparametric Modeling;Computational Biology;Statistical Computing
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Zhang, J., Jin, H., Wang, Y. e., Sun, X., Ma, P., & Zhong, W. (2018). Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models and their Applications in Complex and Massive Datasets. In Topics in Splines and Applications. IntechOpen.
Journals/Publications
- Garcia, D. O., Sun, X., Shea, K. D., Sanderson, P. R., Barra, K., Villavicencio, E., & Godfrey, T. M. (2022). Advancing Liver Cancer Prevention for American Indian Populations in Arizona: An Integrative Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 1.
- Sun, X., Jin, H., & Xu, L. (2020). Decentralized expectation maximization algorithm. 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing.
- Sun, X., Liu, Y., & An, L. (2020). EDGE: Ensemble dimensionality reduction and feature gene extraction for single-cell RNA-seq data.. Nature Communications.
- Sun, X., Zhong, W., & Ma, P. (2021). An asympirical smoothing parameters selection approach for smoothing spline ANOVA models in large samples. Biometrika, 108(1), 149-166.
- Sun, X., Du, P., Wang, X., & Ma, P. (2018). Optimal penalized function-on-function regression under a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
- Sun, X., Dalpiaz, D., Wu, D. i., Liu, J. S., Zhong, W., & Ma, P. (2016). Statistical inference for time course RNA-Seq data using a negative binomial mixed-effect model. BMC bioinformatics, 17(1), 324.
- Kim, D., Xiao, Z., Kwon, S., Sun, X., Ryerson, D., Tkac, D., Ma, P., Wu, S., Chiang, C., Zhou, E., & others, . (2015). A dysregulated acetyl/SUMO switch of FXR promotes hepatic inflammation in obesity. The EMBO journal, 34(2), 184--199.
- Ma, P., & Sun, X. (2015). Leveraging for big data regression. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 7(1), 70--76.
- Seok, S., Fu, T., Choi, S., Li, Y., Zhu, R., Kumar, S., Sun, X., Yoon, G., Kang, Y., Zhong, W., & others, . (2014). Transcriptional regulation of autophagy by an FXR--CREB axis. Nature, 516(7529), 108.
Poster Presentations
- Ahn, H., Sun, X., Chen, X., Park, J., Kwoh, C. K., & Lee, C. (2025, April 29–May 2).
Heterogeneous treatment effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on knee osteoarthritis pain and symptoms
. US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) Annual Scientific Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Others
- Sun, X. (2018, May). Nonparametric Methods for Big and Complex Datasets Under a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Framework.
