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Yixun Xing

Clinical Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of ADA - Advanced Data Analytics

Email: Yixun.Xing@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2015
    Major: Statistical Science
  • MS, Southern Methodist University, 2013
    Major: Statistical Science

Professional Memberships

  • American Statistical Association. (September 1, 2012 - October 18, 2021).

Development Activities

  • Seminar, Ordinal Regression, Statistical Horizons LLC. United States of America. (May 2024 - May 2024).
  • Workshop, Design and Analysis of Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trials for Small and Large Samples, Pitt Summer Methods. United States of America. (August 3, 2022 - August 5, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, Symposium on Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. United States of America. (June 21, 2022 - June 21, 2022).
  • Workshop, A Journey to Selecting & Using Statistical Software for our Introductory Statistics Courses, Mathematical Association of America. United States of America. (March 3, 2022 - March 17, 2022).
  • Workshop, Non-Tenure Track Workshop, UNT. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (October 20, 2021 - October 20, 2021).
  • Workshop, Working with Inclusive Pedagogy and Cultural Responsiveness, UNT. United States of America. (October 19, 2021 - October 19, 2021).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • ADTA 4230 - Data Analytics and Computational Statistics 2, 1 course.
  • ADTA 5130 - Data Analytics I, 4 courses.
  • ADTA 5130B - Sampling, Inference, and Hypothesis Testing, 1 course.
  • ADTA 5230 - Data Analytics II, 15 courses.
  • ADTA 5410 - Applications and Deployment of Advanced Analytics, 9 courses.
  • IPAC 4130 - Data Analytics and Computational Statistics 1, 3 courses.
  • IPAC 4230 - Data Analytics and Computational Statistics 2, 7 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Hashemi Hosseinabad, H., Xing, Y. (2024). Feasibility of using ultrasound visual biofeedback to treat persistent speech sound disorders in children with cleft palate- a case series. Other. 38 (12) 1116-1147. Informa UK Limited.
  • Hashemi Hosseinabad, H., Xing, Y. (2024). Tongue dorsum activity in children with velopharyngeal insufficiency vs. typically developing children. Other. 1-19. Informa UK Limited.
  • Hashemi Hosseinabad, H., Xing, Y., Kemp, M. (2024). A retrospective analysis of factors affecting speech production in school-aged children with cleft palate (+- cleft lip). Other. 182 112029. Elsevier BV.
  • Xing, Y. (2024). Exploring the use of ChatGPT in learning and instructing statistics and data analytics. Teaching Statistics. 46 (2) 95-104. Wiley.
  • Wu, C., Nguyen, D., Xing, Y., Montero, A., Schuemann, J., Shang, H., Pu, Y., Jiang, S. (2021). Improving Proton Dose Calculation Accuracy by Using Deep Learning. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, in press.
  • Xing, Y., Zhang, Y., Nguyen, D., Lin, M., Lu, W., Jiang, S. (2020). Boosting Radiotherapy Dose Calculation Accuracy with Deep Learning. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 21(8): 149-159..
  • Xing, Y., Woodward, W.A. (2020). R-Squared-Bootstrapping for Gegenbauer-Type Long Memory. Comput Econ, 57: 773-790..
  • Xing, Y., Nguyen, D., Lu, W., Yang, M., Jiang, S. (2019). Technical Note: A Feasible Study on Deep Learning-Based Radiotherapy Dose Calculation in Medical Physics. Medical Physics, 47(2): 753-758..
  • Xing, Y., Woodward, W. (2018). R/S-bootstrapping Test for Fractional Integration. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 49(6): 1467-1473..

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), Woodward, W. (Author), ISAIC, Testing Long Memory with Parametric Bootstrap, China. (2021 - 2021).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Hashemi Hosseinabad, H. (Author & Presenter), Xing, Y. (Author), ASHA Convention, Tongue Dorsum Activity in Children with Velopharyngeal Insufficiency, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), AI in Action, Harnessing ChatGPT in Education: An Example in Statistics and Data Analytics, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), ASA DataFest, Introduction to R, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).

    • Poster

  • Hashemi HosseinabadH. (Author & Presenter), Xing, Y. (Author), ACPA Annual Meeting, Speech production of school-aged children with cleft palate, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), Timmerman, C. (Author), Bleile, M. (Author), Chen, B. (Author), Jiang, S. (Author), MAA MathFest, A Mathematical Model for Optimizing Cancer Radiotherapy with Immunotherapy, Tampa, FL, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), Timmerman, C. (Author), Saha, D. (Author), Chen, B. (Author), Jia, X. (Author), Story, M. (Author), Timmerman, R. (Author), Nguyen, D. (Author), Jiang, S. (Author), AAPM Annual Meeting, Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy Combinations: Optimize the Synergistic Effect Via a Quantitative System, Washington D.C., United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Bleile, M. (Author & Presenter), Xing, Y. (Author), Nguyen, D. (Author), Moore, C. (Author), Saha, D. (Author), Chen, B. (Author), Story, M. (Author), Timmerman, R. (Author), Jiang, S. (Author), Heitan, D. (Author), AAPM Annual Meeting, Imputation of Truncated Tumor Growth Data Via Bayesian Mixed Modeling, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Bleile, M. (Author & Presenter), Xing, Y. (Author), Nguyen, D. (Author), Nguyen, H. (Author), Moore, C. (Author), Saha, D. (Author), Chen, B. (Author), Story, M. (Author), Heitan, D. (Author), Timmerman, R. (Author), Jiang, S. (Author), AAPM Annual Meeting, Optimizing the Combination of Radiotherapy with Immunotherapy Using Reinforcement Learning, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Zhong, X. (Author & Presenter), Xing, Y. (Author), Nguyen, D. (Author), McBeth, R. (Author), Norouzi-Kandalan, R. (Author), Zhang, Y. (Author), Lin, M. (Author), Lu, W. (Author), Jiang, s. (Author), AAPM Annual Meeting, Commissioning of a Deep Learning-Based Radiotherapy Dose Calculation Engine, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Xing, Y. (Author & Presenter), Zhang, Y. (Author), Nguyen, D. (Author), Lin, M. (Author), Lu, W. (Author), Jiang, S. (Author), AAPM Annual Meeting, Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, AAC. (January 2025 - Present).
  • Other (Course Coordinator), Course Coordinator. (August 2023 - December 2024).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee. (2023 - 2024).
  • Other (Course Coordinator), IMPROVE 2024. (August 2024 - October 2024).
  • Task Force Member, AI study group. (2023 - 2023).
  • Other (Course Coordinator), IMPROVE 2023. (August 2023 - October 2023).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (October 2021 - 2022).
  • Other, IMPROVE2022. (July 2022 - August 2022).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Teaching Satistics. (2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. (2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Business and Economic Research. (March 2022 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Medical Physics. (2023 - 2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, ISAIC. (2022 - 2023).
  • Mentor, ASA DataFest. (April 2023 - April 2023).
  • Other (Judge), ASA Special Awards in Statistics for the 2022 ISEF. (April 29, 2022 - May 5, 2022).
  • Mentor, ASA DataFest. (April 2, 2022 - April 2, 2022).