Dr Yinghui Wei

• Associate Professor of Statistics
• School Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Qualifications

Academic qualifications:

• PhD in Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK, 2008
• MSc in Statistics (with Distinction), School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK, 2004
• BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Northwest University, China, 2003

• Office of National Statistics Full Accredited Researcher under the Digital Economy Act, 2021
  
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2014
  
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Plymouth, UK, 2014

• Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK, 2019 – Present
• Lecturer in Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK, 2013 – 2019
• Investigator Scientist, Medical Research Council, UK, 2009 – 2013
• Research Fellow (Welcome Trust), University of Nottingham, UK, 2008 – 2009

Honorary Appointments:

• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, 2021 – Present

Professional membership

• Member of Cochrane Statistical Methods Group
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the London Mathematical Society

Roles on external bodies

Teaching interests

Staff serving as external examiners

2022 – , External Examiner, "MSc Data Science", "BSc Statistics", "BSc Data Science and Analytics", Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex

2019, External PhD Examiner, Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool

Research interests

I recently hold an MRC fellowship grant to make use of big data from cohort studies and electronic health records within the Trusted Research Environments, such as the OpenSAFELY and UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration Secure e-Research Platform, to investigate COVID-19 epidemiology and its impact on public health.

My primary research interest is in developing statistical methodology and the substantive applications to medicine, clinical trials, observational studies and evidence synthesis. Specific areas include:

• Bayesian inference
• Clinical prediction models
• Evidence synthesis and meta-analysis (including multiple outcomes, multiple treatments and diagnostic tests meta-analysis)
• Modelling and analysis of infectious diseases epidemiology (including Cowpox virus, healthcare-associated infection, Zika virus and COVID-19) 
• Survival analysis

I have a software package in Stata: ipdfc

Wei Y. and Royston P. IPDFC: Stata module to reconstruct individual participant data from a published Kaplan-Meier curve (link)

Other research

Big Data group

Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Grants & contracts

Externally funded projects:

01/02/2023 – 31/01/2027, Horizon Europe, Peripheral Biomarker Based Combinatorial Early Diagnostics for Dementia (CombiDiag), €2.8M;  Co-I; PI: G. Pan; T. Stefan.

01/09/2022 – 31/08/2024, NIHR (302739), "Risk factors for adverse health outcomes following kidney transplantation", £89,205, Primary Supervisor; Pre-Doctoral Fellow Gray J.

01/08/2022 – 31/07/2023, EPSRC IAA, "Using data and analytical approaches to improve healthcare services for patient and public benefit", £5,000, PI.

01/04/2022– 1/10/2023, Royal Academy of Engineering Diversity Impact Programme, "Embedding Systemic Inclusion for Neurodiverse and Disabled Engineering Students", Co-I, £93,667, PI Khan A. 

1/10/2021 – 30/09/2022, MRC Fellowship (MR/W021358/1): "Using data to improve public health: COVID-19 secondment", PI, £117,805. This fellowship is part of the COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study award. 

03/2021, London Mathematical Society (WiM 20-21 04): Women in Mathematics Day, Lead Applicant, £1,600.

2020 – 2023, China Scholarship Council: Joint Training of Doctoral Students in Statistical Science with Yunnan University, Host Supervisor.

1/10/2020 – 30/09/2024, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (Ref: 1374) and EPSRC DTP (Ref: EP/T518153/1: 2432390): "Using big data to develop and validate clinical prediction models for survival outcomes in kidney transplant", Project PI, £84,786 (with £34,000 from NHS).

04/2019 – 12/2020, GlaxoSmithKline (Ref: 8894): “An assessment of the sensitivity to change of a scale to measure quality of life in patients with severe asthma”, awarded in 2018, Co-I, £55,754.

04/2019 – 04/2020, GlaxoSmithKline (Ref: 8893): “Further validation of a scale to measure quality of life in patients with severe asthma”, awarded in 2018, Co-I, £44,503.

07/2016 – 01/2018, NIHR RfPB (PB-PG-0215-36117): “A systematic review of physical activity for alcohol and substance use disorders: evidence synthesis with stakeholder engagement to formulate practical recommendations”, awarded in 2015, Co-I, £154,528, PI Thompson T. 

Reports & invited lectures

Conferences organised