So Young Ryu

So Young Ryu serves as an Associate Professor with tenure in the Biostatistics Division of the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Reno since 2021, following her appointment as Assistant Professor from 2015-2021. She additionally holds Graduate Faculty positions in the Molecular Biosciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Washington (2011) advised by Vladimir Minin and David Goodlett
• M.S. in Statistics, University of Washington (2010)
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Florida Atlantic University (2004)
• B.S. in Computer Information Science, University of Florida (2002)

Dr. Ryu's research integrates advanced statistical methodologies with biomedical applications, specializing in proteomics and lipidomics analysis through mass spectrometry techniques. Her biostatistics work addresses missing data imputation and mixture modeling for complex biological systems, while her medical informatics research develops predictive models for trauma patient outcomes using emergency department datasets. This multidisciplinary approach bridges computational statistics with clinical bacteriology and organ dysfunction studies.

Her prior experience includes postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford Genome Technology Center (Department of Biochemistry) and Harvard Medical School (Department of Surgery/Massachusetts General Hospital), along with research roles at the University of Washington spanning biostatistics and medicinal chemistry.