Fei Ye

Roles

• Biography

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  Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH, is a professor of Public Health Sciences, the Executive Director for Clinical Trials and Quantitative Sciences, and the Assistant Director of Statistics for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL. She earned both her MSPH and PhD in Biostatistics from the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. During her PhD studies, Dr. Ye completed an internship and her dissertation at Vanderbilt University. After earning her doctorate, she joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she advanced from Instructor to Professor of Biostatistics, co-directed the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Research Center, and served as Vice Chair of Collaborative Studies in the Department of Biostatistics. She also held a secondary appointment in the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Medicine. Before joining Sylvester and the U, Dr.?Ye was Professor and Vice Chair of Collaborative Studies in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, held a secondary appointment in Epidemiology, co-directed the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core for Vanderbilt’s Breast and GI SPOREs, and served on the Data Monitoring and Scientific Review Committees of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Nationally she serves as Assistant Editor for Statistics at JAMA Oncology, reviews for NIH study sections in cancer prevention, immunotherapy, and clinical oncology, and is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

• Teaching Interests

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  Dr. Ye has taught biostatistics to 12 cohorts of Vanderbilt MPH students, updating the curriculum annually to ensure relevance and rigor. She also developed advanced modules for Vanderbilt’s Epidemiology PhD program. Her “Regression and Modeling in R” course, offered through the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute, has reached a diverse audience, including students, postdocs, clinicians, and faculty from various disciplines. She served on numerous ?PhD, MS, and faculty mentoring committees, and ?has delivered lectures and workshops for international training programs and clinical investigators.

• Research Interests

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  Dr. Ye's research focuses on developing and applying biostatistical/bioinformatic methods to biomedical research areas such as cancer prevention, early detection, prognosis, predictive model development and validation, biomarker discovery, omics data analysis, and clinical trial design. Her work spans 190+ peer-reviewed publications.