Lijia Wang

Lijia Wang

First Name: 
Lijia
Last Name: 
Wang
Title: 
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (Limited Term)
Biography : 

I am a Teaching Stream Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. My previous roles include serving as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto Mississauga, where I taught a range of courses from second to fourth year.

My research interests center around causal inference and causal mediation analysis, with a strong focus on applying statistical methods to biological and medical data.

Academic Positions

  • Sessional Lecturer, University of Waterloo (2022 – 2024)
  • Courses: STAT 330 (Mathematical Statistics), STAT 431 (Generalized Linear Models and Applications)
  • Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto Mississauga (2023 – 2024)
  • Course: STA 256 (Probability and Statistics I)
Education: 
Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Waterloo (2019 – 2024)
M.S. in Statistics, National University of Singapore (2017 – 2019)
B.A. in Economics, Beijing Normal University (2013 – 2017)

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Statistical Education
  • Causal Inference and Causal Mediation Analysis
  • Application of Other Methods in Biostatistics

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Meta Description: 
Lijia Wang is an assistant professor, teaching stream (Limited Term) at the U of T Department of Statistical Sciences.