Xiaoxiao Sun
- Associate Professor, Public Health
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 000-0000
- Roy P. Drachman Hall, Rm. 206
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- xiaosun@arizona.edu
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
2025-26 Courses
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Dissertation
STAT 920 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
GENE 920 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
STAT 920 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
BIOS 699 (Spring 2025) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Spring 2025) -
Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Fall 2024) -
Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Fall 2024) -
Dissertation
GENE 920 (Fall 2024) -
Dissertation
STAT 920 (Fall 2024) -
Gen Line+Mix Effect Mdl
BIOS 684 (Fall 2024) -
Independent Study
BIOS 699 (Fall 2024) -
Theory Of Linear Models
BIOS 687 (Fall 2024) -
Theory Of Linear Models
STAT 687 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Summer I 2024) -
Independent Study
BIOS 699 (Summer I 2024) -
Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Spring 2024) -
Independent Study
BIOS 699 (Spring 2024) -
Intro to Genomic Data Science
BIOS 682 (Spring 2024) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Fall 2023) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Fall 2023) -
Research
GENE 900 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Dissertation
BIOS 920 (Summer I 2023) -
Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Spring 2023) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Spring 2023) -
Research
GENE 900 (Spring 2023) -
Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Fall 2022) -
Gen Line+Mix Effect Mdl
BIOS 684 (Fall 2022) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Fall 2022) -
Theory Of Linear Models
BIOS 687 (Fall 2022) -
Theory Of Linear Models
STAT 687 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Spring 2022) -
Directed Research
MCB 792 (Spring 2022) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Spring 2022) -
Thesis
BIOS 910 (Spring 2022) -
Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Fall 2021) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
BIOS 451 (Fall 2021) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
BIOS 551 (Fall 2021) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
EPID 451 (Fall 2021) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
EPID 551 (Fall 2021) -
Independent Study
BIOS 699 (Fall 2021) -
Research
BIOS 900 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Biostatistics Seminar
BIOS 696S (Spring 2021) -
Special Topics: Biostatistics
BIOS 685 (Spring 2021) -
Thesis
BIOS 910 (Spring 2021) -
Gen Line+Mix Effect Mdl
BIOS 684 (Fall 2020) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
BIOS 451 (Fall 2020) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
EPID 451 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Special Topics: Biostatistics
BIOS 685 (Spring 2020) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
BIOS 451 (Fall 2019) -
Health Data Mgmt Visual
EPID 451 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Gen Line+Mix Effect Mdl
BIOS 684 (Spring 2019)
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.
Others
- Sun, X. (2018, May). Nonparametric Methods for Big and Complex Datasets Under a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Framework.
