Ruiyan Luo

Dr. Ruiyan Luo is an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, with a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007) and M.S./B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Tianjin University, China. She transitioned from a postdoctoral position at Yale University (2007-2010) to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at GSU (2010) before joining the School of Public Health in 2012.

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Statistics
• M.S., Tianjin University, Applied Mathematics
• B.S., Tianjin University, Applied Mathematics

Dr. Luo specializes in functional data analysis, Bayesian statistics, and high-dimensional data analysis. Her methodological work focuses on linear/nonlinear functional regression models with functional responses and multiple predictors, while applied research addresses public health and biological problems, including epidemic modeling, network inference, and metabolomics/proteomics analysis.

Her recent publications highlight expertise in epidemic forecasting, including mpox trajectory prediction and sub-epidemic modeling frameworks, alongside statistical software development (StatModPredict, BayesianFitForecast, SpatialWavePredict). She also explores functional regression approaches for densely observed data and develops tools for parameter estimation in differential equation models.