Yan Sun
Associate Professor
Faculty, Epidemiology
Dr. Sun completed his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2001) and MS in Computer Science (2003) at Wayne State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2011, Dr. Sun held the position of assistant research professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. His research interests focus on novel study designs and applications of genetic epidemiology to identify molecular markers and understand risk factors and functional mechanisms of human diseases in multiethnic populations. The goal of such translational research is to improve the prediction, prevention and treatment of human diseases.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road NE ,
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-9090
Fax: (404) 727-8737
Email: yvsun@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Bioinformatics
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Epigenetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
Courses Taught
- EPI 552: Human Genome Epidemiology
- EPI 556: Applied Genomic EPI
Affiliations & Activities
Research interests include: genomics, epigenomics, metabolomics and gene-environment interaction of cardio-metabolic diseases in multi-ethnic populations, multi-omics study of complex disease, host factors of infectious disease, bioban-based precision medicine reserach, machine learning applications in high-dimensional -omics data analyses, and method development for pathway, network and systems analysis of complex disease.