PI: An-Shun Tai (戴安順)

PI: An-Shun Tai (戴安順)

Assistant Professor at Institute of Statistics and Data Science, NTHU.

PI Short Bio

I received my Ph.D. in Statistics at National Tsing Hua University in 2019. My current research interests are the genomic data analysis and causal inference.

  • For genomic studies: Biological topics I have studied include tumor heterogeneity, immune cell deconvolution, and single-cell sequencing. Based on these topics, I have applied Bayesian modeling, clustering approaches, and variable selection for developing the corresponding statistical models.

  • For causal inference: I recently focused on the statistical model development for mediator analysis with multiple mediators and instrumental variable methods (Mendelian Randomization).

I would welcome any email for an academic discussion.

Contact Information:

  • Email: ashtai@stat.nthu.edu.tw
  • Tel: +886 3-5715131#33188
  • Office: Room 825, Institute of Statistics and Data Science, No.101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C.

NEWS

  • An-Shun Tai received the 2026 NSTC Ta-You Wu Memorial Award
    （115年度國科會「吳大猷先生紀念獎」）.

  • An-Shun Tai received the 115 Professor Wen-Jang Huang’s Young Statistician Award (Applied Statistics Category)
    （115年黃文璋教授年輕統計學家獎・應用組）.

  • Yu-Chieh Liu (劉宇婕), third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Statistics, was awarded the NSTC College Student Research Scholarship for the project “A Novel Instrumental Variable Model Relaxing the Independence and Exclusion Assumptions: A Mendelian Randomization Study of Age at Menarche and Uterine Fibroids”
    （114年度國科會大專學生研究計畫：「放寬獨立性與排他性假設的新因果工具變量模型：應用於初經年紀與子宮肌瘤的孟德爾隨機化實驗」）

  • Hua-Rui Zeng (曾華睿), third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Statistics, was awarded the NSTC College Student Research Scholarship for the project “An Improved MR-Egger Model Relaxing the Instrumental Variable Independence Assumption and Its Application”
    （114年度國科會大專學生研究計畫：「放寬工具變量獨立性假設之改良 MR-Egger 模型及其應用」）

  • An-Shun Tai received the 2024 Outstanding Research Award, College of Management, National Cheng Kung University.

  • Bo-Han Yao (姚博瀚), third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Statistics, received the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship 2025 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

  • An-Shun Tai received the 2024 Outstanding Research Award for Young Scholars, Taiwan Comprehensive University System
    （臺灣綜合大學系統 113 年度年輕學者創新研發成果傑出獎）.

  • Bo-Han Yao (姚博瀚), second-year undergraduate student in the Department of Statistics, was awarded the NSTC College Student Research Scholarship for the project
    “Application of Causal Mediation Models to Smoking-Induced Mechanisms of Accelerated Aging Measured by Epigenetic Clock”
    （113年度國科會大專學生研究計畫：「因果中介模型應用於抽菸引導的老化加速機制」）