Biography
Dr. Sun received her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Toronto in Canada. She is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Texas State University. She has interests in statistical genetics and bioinformatics and has published > 30 peer-reviewed research articles in high-impact journals. Dr. Sun and her students have been addressing challenging genetic and epigenetic questions using statistical and computational tools with a focus on cancer methylation data analysis. She has also been developing statistical methodologies and software packages for bioinformatic problems using Bayesian methods, hidden Markov models, Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, and linear models.
Research Interests
Statistical genetics and bioinformatics.
Dr. Sun's google scholar citation:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iQ9YkMcAAAAJ
Dr. Sun's google scholar citation:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iQ9YkMcAAAAJ
Teaching Interests
Statistics