Masanao Yajima

Masanao joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University in 2016 as an associate professor of practice.

Prior to joining the program, he worked on the application of statistical methods to biomedical research of aging and immunotherapy at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. His recent work is in the life sciences domain, nevertheless, he is originally from the social sciences and has diverse interest and knowledge in multiple areas of science. His expertise includes but is not limited to hierarchical modeling, missing data, multiple comparison as well as statistical computing.

EDUCATION

• Masanao earned his PhD degree from the Department of Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles

Companies

• Director of MSSP Consulting Boston University (2020)
• Associate Professor of the Practice Boston University (2016)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (2013 — 2016)
• Graduate Student Researcher UCLA Department of Statistics (2010 — 2013)
• Teaching Assistant UCLA (2009 — 2012)
• Consultant UCLA Department of Statistics, Statistical Consulting Center (2010 — 2011)
• Research Associate Columbia University, Applied Statistics Center (2007 — 2008)
• Consultant Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (2000 — 2003)

Skills

The most important

• Data Visualization
• Quantitative Finance
• Pattern Recognition

Other

Text Mining, Probability, Genomics, Computational Biology, Linear Regression, Python, Numerical Analysis, Research, Experimental Design, Algorithms, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Multivariate Statistics, Predictive Analytics, Matlab, Logistic Regression, Statistical Programming, Quantitative Analytics, Mathematical Modeling, Graphical Models, Predictive Modeling, Biostatistics, Data Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, Machine Learning, LaTeX, Multivariate Analysis, Data Mining, Bayesian statistics, Statistical Computing, Statistical Modeling, R, Statistics