Rate My Professor Amei Amei

Amei Amei is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Inner Mongolia University, an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, completed in 2007. Amei began her career at UNLV as an Assistant Professor in 2007, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013, and advanced to full Professor in 2021, all within the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Amei's research focuses on statistical genetics, population genetics, and stochastic modeling, utilizing probability theory and statistical methodologies to address challenges in mathematical biology. Her work involves developing Poisson random field models applied to aligned DNA sequences for inferring genetic parameters such as mutation rates, selection coefficients, and species divergence times, with extensions to cancer detection. She conducts genome-wide association studies on complex diseases including hypertension, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease, emphasizing time-varying genetic effects in longitudinal traits, Bayesian variable selection, gene-environment interactions, and large-scale sequence-based analyses. Key publications include “Detecting time‐varying genetic effects in Alzheimer’s disease using a longitudinal genome‐wide association studies model” (2024, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring), “Retrospective varying coefficient association analysis of longitudinal binary traits: application to the identification of genetic loci associated with hypertension” (2024, The Annals of Applied Statistics), “SDePER: a hybrid machine learning and regression method for cell-type deconvolution of spatial barcoding-based transcriptomic data” (2024, Genome Biology), “Stochastic generalized functional linear models for gene-based association analysis of binary traits in longitudinal studies” (2024, Statistics and Its Interface), and “Urban monitoring of antimicrobial resistance during a COVID-19 surge through wastewater surveillance” (2022, Science of The Total Environment). In 2013, she received a UNLV Individual Investigator award for $14,000 on a Time-Dependent Random Effects Poisson Random Field Model for Cancer Gene Detection. Amei serves as Faculty Liaison for the UNLV ASA Student Chapter.