Owen Yoo
Biostatistics PhD Student - University of Pennsylvania Perleman School of Medicine
Email: owenhyun.yoo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Updated: 6/30/2026
Hello! My name is Owen and I am a Biostatistics PhD Student at the University of Pennsylvania. My interests lie in Causal Inference and Clinical Trials, especially how they can be used within oncology, mental health, and wearable devices data.
I got my BS in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Here I closely worked with Michigan Biostatistics, the Institute for Social Research, and Michigan Sports Analytics Society.
Outside the classroom, I enjoy watching football (Go Lions and Go Blue!) and getting to use my music minor (I can play 4 instruments!).
Feel free to look around my website, and learn more about my endeavors in and out of the classroom!
Formerly
Research Assistant with the Data Processing Team at Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research
Undergraduate Researcher with Dr. Irina Gaynanova (URPS) - Project: “Building Analytical Tools for Wearable Heart Rate Data”
Undergraduate Research Intern at the University of Pennsylvania’s Summer Undergraduate Internship Program with Dr. Kristin Linn - Project: “Average Treatment Effect for Misclassified Outcomes in Observational Studies”
Undergraduate Researcher - Big Data Summer Institute at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health
Undergraduate Researcher w/ Dr. Zhenke Wu - Project: “Prior elicitation algorithms for inferring causes of death from computer-coded verbal autopsy data”
Co-President of Michigan Sports Analytics Society
Vice President of Eta Kappa Nu - Beta Epsilon
Senior Advisor of Michigan Sports Analytics Society
Peer advisor for Michigan’s Department of Statistics
Grader for EECS 183 (Elementary Programming Concepts)
Grader for EECS 203 (Discrete Mathematics)