Hui Guo

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PhD projects

I am accepting applications for a fully funded PhD project (home students only). Application deadline is Friday 14 February 2025. For detailed information please follow this link. https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/investigating-disease-causal-pathways-and-opportunities-for-targeted-prevention/?p181298

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Biography

Hui Guo is a Reader in Biostatistics and the Doctoral Academy Lead for International PGR Recruitment, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. She studied for a PhD in Statistics and worked as a research associate at Cambridge University.

Her PhD research entitled "Statistical Causal Inference and Propensity Analysis" (supervised by Professor Philip Dawid) was within decision-theoretic framework. Her postdoctoral research (supervised by Dr Chris Wallace) was on development and applications of statistical methodologies with the aim of understanding the genetics and mechanisms of common complex disease.

Hui's research focuses on statistical causal inference from observational studies. Her current work is on identification of causal genes of clinical outcomes from large-scale studies. She is also interested in optimising predictive models and investigating genetic causal pathways and/or networks of diseases using multi-omics data.

Qualifications

2010, PhD Statistics, University of Cambridge
2007, MSc Statistics, University College London
2006, PGDip Statistics, University College London

Teaching

Hui leads the module Fundamental Mathematics and Statistics on the MSc Health Data Sciences programme. In addition, she supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. 

My group

Current members:

Alexandra Baousi (PhD, 2024 - , main supervisor)

Jingqi Zhu (PhD, 2024 - , main supervisor)

Maciej Drzal (PhD, 2021 - , co-supervisor)

Eleanor Matthews (PhD, 2022 - , co-supervisor)

Former members:

Xinzhu Yu (PhD, 2020 - 2024, main supervisor)

Vivien Holmes (NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellow, 2022 - 2023, main supervisor)

Jack Kelly (Postdoc, 2021 - 2022, main supervisor) 

Linyi Zou (PhD, 2019 - 2022, main supervisor)

Lauren Jacocks (MPhil, 2019 - 2020, main supervisor)

Corinna Slawinski (PhD, 2018 - 2021, co-supervisor) 

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute (2018 - 2023)

Fellow, The Higher Education Academy

Scientific Committee, QResearch, University of Oxford and EMIS

Management Board, Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Manchester

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Sustainable Futures
  • Digital Futures
  • Christabel Pankhurst Institute

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