S. Stanley Young

S. Stanley Young is the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics.

Dr. Young graduated from North Carolina State University, BS, MES and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Genetics. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry on all phases of pre-clinical research, first at Eli Lilly and then at GlaxoSmithKline. He has authored or co-authored over 50 papers including six “best paper” awards, and a highly cited book, Resampling-Based Multiple Testing. He has two issued patents. He is interested in all aspects of applied statistics, with special interest in chemical and biological informatics. He conducts research in the area of data mining.

Dr. Young is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an adjunct professor of statistics at North Carolina State University, the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia where he co-directs thesis work.

Poster- Ten-sided Dice Experiment

Click here to read "Deming, data and observational studies. A process out of control and needing fixing", Significance, September 2011

Presentation slides from the European Medicines Agency scientific debate, August 2010.

Click here to read "Everything is Dangerous" lecture.

Click here to watch presentation of "Pre-processing HCS data using Non-negative Matrix Factorization"

Click here to see "Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Materials."

Click here to download PowerMV, chemistry visualization software.

Click here to read Lecture on Comparative Effectiveness Research