Mengjia Yu, Ph.D

AbbVie

Dr. Mengjia Yu joined Statistical Innovation Group at AbbVie in 2021. She earned her PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she conducted research on change point analysis and advanced bootstrapping techniques in large sample theory. Dr. Yu’s current research interests focus on development of novel statistical methods, advanced analytical modeling, and the design of analysis tools for adaptive designs in clinical trials. Specifically, Dr. Yu provides expertise and support in areas such as group sequential designs, multi-arm multi-stage seamless designs, sample size re-estimation, adaptive randomization, Bayesian data borrowing, and causal inference, as well as implementation of adaptive designs through software tools including R packages and R Shiny tools.