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Qi is a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University. Prior to Duke, he received his MS in Statistics from the University of Washington and BEng in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University.
His primary research interest lies in the design and analysis of clinical trials, especially cluster randomized trials. He is also interested in integrating clinical trials with other fields, such as causal inference, to improve current methods in clinical trial research. He is particularly motivated by the applied areas that significantly affect marginalized communities, such as HIV, mental disorders, and social stigma.

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Scholarly Works


Addressing Population Heterogeneity for HIV Incidence Estimation Based on Recency Test.

Journal article Statistics in medicine · August 2025 Cross-sectional HIV incidence estimation leverages recency test results to determine the HIV incidence of a population of interest, where recency test uses biomarker profiles to infer whether an HIV-positive individual was "recently" infected. This approac ... Full text Cite

Genotypic analysis of RTS,S/AS01<sub>E</sub> malaria vaccine efficacy against parasite infection as a function of dosage regimen and baseline malaria infection status in children aged 5-17 months in Ghana and Kenya: a longitudinal phase 2b randomised controlled trial.

Journal article The Lancet. Infectious diseases · September 2024 BackgroundThe first licensed malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01E, confers moderate protection against symptomatic disease. Because many malaria infections are asymptomatic, we conducted a large-scale longitudinal parasite genotyping study of s ... Full text Cite

A big data approach to cargo type prediction and its implications for oil trade estimation

Journal article Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review · September 2022 Full text Cite
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