Yinglin Xia

Yinglin Xia is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) before joining AbbVie (North Chicago, IL) as a Clinical Statistician. He joined UIC as a Research Associate Professor in 2015. Dr. Xia has successfully applied his statistical study design and data analysis skills to clinical trials, medical statistics, biomedical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. He has published more than 120 statistical methodology and research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the editorial board of 9 scientific journals and has served as a reviewer for over 90 scientific journals. Dr. Xia is the lead author of Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data with R (Springer Nature, 2018), which was the first statistics book in microbiome study.