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Dr. Shuying Sun

Professor at Mathematics, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

University Mentor, Served as a mentor for the following tenure-track faculty: Xiaoxi Shen. August 2021 - Present.
Member, The scheduling oversight committee. September 2020 - Present.
Member, Math PhD (Proposal) Committee (09/2018 – 05/2019 and 09/2020 - 08/2024). September 2018 - Present.
University Mentor, Served as a teaching mentor for the following graduate students: Ashraf Demian (09/2017 – 05/2018), Robert Zhan (09/2020 – 05/2021), Emet Bethany (09/2021 – 12/2021), and Holly Tidwell (01/2023 -present). September 2017 - Present.
Graduate Advisor, Led the statistics program by serving as a graduate advisor for the Math MS Statistics Concentration since Mar 2017. March 2017 - Present.
Consultant, Provided statistical and bioinformatic consultation to other colleagues. December 2013 - Present.
Participant, Attended many workshops for professional development to better serve at Texas State University. September 2013 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Served as an invited reviewer for the following high-impact international journals (2008–present): (1) Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, (2) Biometrical Journal, (3) Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, (4) Physiological Genomics, (5) Surveys in Mathematics and Its Applications, (6) BMC Medical Genomics, (7) Bioinformatics, (8) Statistics in Medicine, (9) Scientific Reports, (10) PLOS One, (11) Statistics and Probability Letters, (12) Statistics in Biosciences, (13) Biometrics, (14) Nature Communications, (15) BMC Bioinformatics, (16) Annals of Applied Statistics, (17) Journal of American Statistical Association, (18) Frontiers Genetics, (19) Translational Cancer Research, and (20) (20) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C. January 2008 - Present.

2025

Chair, Prepared and graded comprehensive exams for MS statistics concentration and Math Education PhD students. January 2017 - December 2025.
Member, Served in the hiring committee for the probability position. September 2024 - May 2025.
Member, Served in the merit committee. September 2024 - May 2025.

2024

Member, Served in the math department Budget Committee. September 2023 - August 2024.
Presenter, Served as a presenter on the Math Award Day, Texas State University (2014, 2017, 2018, 2024). April 2014 - April 2024.
Support the statistics seminar, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Longhai Li for the statistics seminar. March 8, 2024.

2023

Member, Served in the hiring committee for a computational math and statistics position. April 2023 - December 2023.
Editor, Served as an Associate Editor (by invitation) of Cancer Genetics (specialty section of Frontiers in Oncology and Frontiers in Genetics). June 2022 - December 2023.
Editorial Review Board Member, Served as a Review Editor on the Editorial Board for two sections of Frontiers in Genetics (07/15/2020-present for the section of Cancer Genetics, and 10/19/2015 – present for the section of Statistical Genetics and Methodology). July 15, 2015 - December 2023.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Steve Qin for the statistics seminar. November 10, 2023.
Graduate Advisor, Supported the Math Grad Expo by meeting prospective students as a graduate advisor. October 20, 2023.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Lei Sun for the statistics seminar. September 29, 2023.
Chair, Served as a session chair for the Joint Statistics and Data Science Conference, Beijing, China. July 12, 2023.
Presenter, Served as a Presenter on the 2023 Spring Awards Day. April 21, 2023.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Xiaoqing Yu for the statistics seminar. March 24, 2023.
Chair, Served as a session chair for the conference entitled Advances in Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Biomedical, Genetic, and Omics Data at The University of Texas at Dallas. March 17, 2023.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Celia Greenwood for the statistics seminar. February 24, 2023.

2022

Named/Recognized by Anna Cowsar, Matthew Adams, and Sheryl Rosenthal as a person at Texas State who made a contribution to their academic career (07/03/2019, 07/20/2016, and 07/13/2015). July 2015 - December 2022.
Member, The program and curriculum committee. September 2021 - May 2022.
Member, Served in the collaborative postdoc line committee with colleagues in other departments. February 2018 - May 2022.
University Mentor, Served as a mentor for the following lecturers: Dr. Bikai Nie (09/2015 – 05/2016), Dr. Vera Ioudina (09/2016 – 05/2017), Dr. Bahaudin Hashmi (09/2017 – 05/2018), Dr. Abby Train (09/2018 – 05/2019), Dr. Vivian Healey (09/2020 – 05/2022). September 2015 - May 2022.
Served as a Graduate Marshal on May 12, 2022. May 12, 2022.
Participant, Supported the 2022 Health Scholar Showcase by presenting two posters. April 8, 2022.
Other, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Kui Zhang for the statistics seminar. March 4, 2022.
Chair, Submitted a Big Initiative draft proposal on growing our graduate program in statistics to the College of Science and Engineering in Feb 2022. January 2022 - February 2022.
Other, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Yuting Jia for the statistics seminar. February 5, 2022.

2021

Member, Served as an associate doctoral faculty for the Materials Science, Engineering & Commercialization (MSEC) Ph.D. program. January 2018 - December 2021.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Sherry Wang for the statistics seminar. November 12, 2021.
Graduate Advisor, Supported the Math Department Grad Expo event by presenting posters every year (2013 – present), meeting prospective students as a graduate advisor (2018 -present), as a judge for the “Math in the Picture” posters (11/2017), and as a table host (2014, 2015, 2017). November 2013 - November 5, 2021.
Chair, Served as a career mentor for young researchers at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting on Oct 12, 2021. October 12, 2021.
Poster Judge, Served as a poster judge for the Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS) (10/09/2021 and 04/08/2016). October 9, 2021.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Mingyao Li for the statistics seminar. October 8, 2021.
Editor, Served as a Handling Editor (i.e., Guest Associate Editor) for the section of Statistical Genetics and Methodology of Frontier Genetics. June 2021 - August 2021.
Chair, Served as the Chair of Statistics Qualifying Exam for Math Ed PhD Program, 2016 –2018 and 2020-2021. November 2016 - August 2021.
Participant, Served/helped in the COVID-Testing Verification Event. August 15, 2021.
Reviewer / Referee, Elected as a Reviewer of the Month (June 2021) for the international journal of Translational Cancer Research (TCR). June 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021.
Participant, Attended the monthly ParaDIGMS advisor meeting in Spring 2021. January 2021 - May 2021.
Member, Served in the hiring committee for the tenure-track faculty position in statistics. August 2019 - May 2021.
Member, Served in the math department Ph.D and Graduate Committee, 08/2018 – 05/2019 and 09/2020 – 05/2021. August 2018 - May 2021.
Committee Member, Committee on Committee Appointed –LIBRARY, at the Department of Mathematics, Texas State University. September 2013 - May 2021.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Vivian Li for the statistics seminar. April 30, 2021.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. David Sankoff for the statistics seminar. April 9, 2021.

2020

Member, Served as a thesis committee member for Anjani Chaudhary (09/2020 – 12/2020), a graduate student from Ingram School of Engineering. September 2020 - December 2020.
Chair, Submitted a Big Idea proposal on Building a Statistics and Bioinformatics Program at Texas State University (Oct 27, 2020). This proposal was selected for fund raising priorities by the University Advancement. August 2020 - October 2020.
Member, Served in the hiring committee for the tenure-track faculty position in statistics. August 2019 - May 2020.

2019

Member, Served as a by-large faculty member for the lecturer review committee. September 2017 - August 2019.
Member, Served in the hiring committee for two tenure-track faculty positions. August 2018 - May 2019.
University Mentor, Served as a mentor for the following tenure-track faculty: Dr. Yong Yang (03/2018 – 05/2019) and Dr. Wade Hindes (09/2018 – 05/2019). March 2018 - May 2019.
Poster Judge, Served as a poster judge for the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) conference on 03/02/2018 and 03/08/2019. March 2018 - March 2019.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Sue Geller for the statistics seminar. February 15, 2019.

2018

Thesis committee member, Served as a committee member for the following math graduate students’ Master theses: Jamtsho Jamtsho (10/2015 – 04/2016), Martin Schmidt’s (02/2018 – 04/2018). October 2015 - 2018.
Host, Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Peter Muller for math department's colloquium. September 28, 2018.
University Mentor, Served as a mentor for Allison Johnson through the Bobcat Bond Program. October 2017 - May 2018.
Statistical Consultant, Provided statistical consulting service to Dr. Melinda Hester (St. David’s School of Nursing, College of Health Professions) and criminal justice graduate student Ms. Danielle Green. August 2017 - May 2018.
Participant, Presented a poster with the title Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics @ TxState for the 2018 Health Scholar Showcase. February 23, 2018.
Graduate Advisor, Served on the Graduate and Professional Fair Day. February 12, 2018.

2017

Helper, Provided advanced statistics questions and solutions for the Math Lab tutor recruitment. 2017.
Table Host, Served as a table host for the Math Graduate Open House. 2013 - 2017.
Participant, Presented posters at the Math Graduate Open House. 2013 - 2017.
Chair, Statistics Concentration Committee. February 2017 - December 2017.
Research mentor, Served as a research mentor for an undergraduate student (Yu-Ri Lee). May 2016 - December 2017.
Judge, Served as a judge for the “Math in the Picture” during the Graduate Open House. November 2017.
Mentor/Advisor, Advised 4 teams (3 students per team) in the Honors Summer Math Camp. June 2014 - August 2017.
Chair, Led the Cancer, Genetics, and Bioinformatics theme poster preparation for the Health Scholar Showcase. January 2017 - February 2017.
Member, Served as a search committee member for the expedite statistics position. December 2016 - February 2017.
Key collaborator, Contributed as a key collaborator in the CPRIT Geospatial and Cancer Communication Technology core research facility grant submission (CPRIT: Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas). November 2016 - January 2017.

2016

Senior Personnel, Contributed to support the NSF grant proposal submitted by Texas State University Computer Science faculty members, Dr. Hongshi Chi, Dr. Xiao Chen, and IT department colleagues. March 2014 - September 2016.
Senior Personnel, Participated as one of Texas State team members in the application for the Joint Venture Partnership with the National Technical Information Service for Data Innovation Support. August 2016.
Volunteer, Volunteered for the Bobcat Preview Day. August 2015 - August 2016.
Provide support for math department job interviews. January 2016 - February 2016.
Other, Served on Bobcat Days, Math Department, Texas State University. February 2014 - February 2016.

2015

Invited and hosted the external speaker Dr. Tony Ng for the math department's colloquium. November 6, 2015.
Reviewer, Reviewed an honor course proposal with Dr. White and Honors College. October 13, 2015.
University Mentor, Mentored the math major student Brittany Enfield for her Honors Thesis. August 2014 - May 2015.

2014

University Mentor, Supervised the math major student Brittany Enfield for her Honors Course Project in Math4305. January 2014 - May 2014.
Presenter, Served as a presenter on the Math Award Day, Texas State University. April 2014.
Grader, Doctoral comprehensive exam, Department of Mathematics. January 2014.
Participant, Attended a mental health training workshop to better support students’ growth and success. January 2014.

2013

Participant, Participated in developing a new course MATH2428 in collaboration with other colleagues. 2013.
Participant, Supported students’ events (e.g., Talk Math 2 Me Seminar). November 2013 - December 2013.
Speaker, Supported the Women In Science and Engineering meeting by giving an invited talk. November 2013.
Coordinator / Organizer, Organized Sequencing Data Interest Group (SDIG) meetings. September 2009 - May 2013.

2010

Reviewer / Referee, Served as an abstract reviewer for Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics. 2010.