 
            Jun Yan is a Professor in the Department of Statistics,
            and a Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Health
            Research at the University of Connecticut. He received his
            doctorate in statistics from University of
            Wisconsin--Madison, and a master's degree in Economics from
            the University of Miami. Dr. Yan's methodological research
            interests include survival analysis, clustered data
            analysis, spatial data analysis, spatial extremes,
            estimating functions, and statistical computing. He has been
            involved in a number of collaborative biomedical and public
            health research projects. In particular, he has worked with
            cystic fibrosis, alcoholism, cancer, depression, dental
            care, and other areas. Dr. Yan is committed to making his
            statistical methods available via open source software and
            has authored and is actively maintaining a collection of R
            packages in the public domain. He is a Fellow of both the
            American Statistician Association and the Institute of the
            Mathematical Statistics. 
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