Mandi Yu is a Mathematical Statistician in the Data Analysis and Interpretation Branch (DAIB) within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Her research interests include disclosure risk assessment of cancer registry data and sample survey data; statistical disclosure control methods; multiple imputations of missing data in cancer registries, surveys, and clinical trials; survey sampling; and analysis of complex survey data.

Dr. Yu received her PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan in 2008. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Survey Methodology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor’s degree from Nankai University in China. Prior to joining the National Cancer Institute in 2009, she held a position as a Mathematical Statistician at the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Yu is the recipient of two awards from the American Statistical Association (2007).