Yifan is presently serving as a Postdoc Scholar under the guidance of Dr. Ming Wang in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Dr. Wang’s team, he attained a Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2023, following a master’s degree in Biostatistics from Michigan State University in 2016.

His research encompasses high-dimensional covariance estimation, large-scale hypothesis testing, survival analysis and their practical applications in interdisciplinary studies.