Dr. Xie is Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University. Her research is motivated by problems related to biomedical studies. Currently, she is focusing on genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genetics genomics data (eQTL) and neuron imaging data. Methodologically and theoretically, Dr. Xie's research area includes large-scale multiple testing, variable selection and high dimensional sparse network estimation.