Yu Gu

Yu Gu

Assistant Professor

Peer Reviewed Publications

$^*$ indicates equal contribution; $^\dagger$ indicates corresponding author; # indicates student coauthor.

  1. Shrestha P, Graff M, Gu Y, Wang Y, Avery CL, Ginnis J, Simancas-Pallares MA, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Alotaibi RN, Orlova K, Ahn HS, Nguyen KN, Highland HM, Lin DY, Preisser JS, Slade GD, Marazita ML, North KE, Divaris K. Multi-ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Early Childhood Caries. Journal of Dental Research, accepted, 2024.
  2. Lin DY, Xu Y, Gu Y, Sunny SK, Moore Z, Zeng D. Impact of Booster Vaccination Interval on SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024.
  3. Lin DY, Wang J, Gu Y, Zeng D. Evaluating treatment efficacy in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, with applications to Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trials. Clinical Trials, 2024.
  4. Gu Y, Zeng D, Heiss G, Lin DY. Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Semiparametric Regression Models with Interval-Censored Multi-State Data. Biometrika, 2023.
  5. Lin DY$^*$, Xu Y$^*$, Gu Y$^*$, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Moore Z, Sunny SK. Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination and Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Omicron Infection and Severe Outcomes in Children Under 12 Years of Age: an Observational Cohort Study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2023.
  6. Lin DY, Xu Y, Gu Y, Zeng D, Sunny SK, Moore Z. Durability of Bivalent Boosters Against Omicron Subvariants. New England Journal of Medicine, 2023.
  7. Lin DY, Xu Y, Gu Y, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z. Effectiveness of Bivalent Boosters Against Severe Omicron Infection. New England Journal of Medicine, 2023.
  8. Lin DY, Gu Y, Xu Y, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z, Zeng D. Association of Primary and Booster Vaccination and Prior Infection With SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes. JAMA, 2022.
  9. Lin DY, Gu Y, Xu Y, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z. Effects of Vaccination and Previous Infection on Omicron Infections in Children. New England Journal of Medicine, 2022.
  10. Lin DY, Zeng D, Gu Y, Krause PR, Fleming TR. Reliably Assessing Duration of Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022.
  11. Gu Y$^\dagger$, Preisser JS, Zeng D, Shrestha P, Shah M, Simancas-Pallares MA, Ginnis J, Divaris K. Partitioning around Medoids Clustering and Random Forest Classification for GIS-Informed Imputation of Fluoride Concentration Data. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2022.
  12. Lin DY, Gu Y, Wheeler B, Young H, Holloway S, Sunny SK, Moore Z, Zeng D. Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines over a 9-Month Period in North Carolina. New England Journal of Medicine, 2022.
  13. Lin DY, Gu Y, Zeng D, Janes HE, Gilbert PB. Evaluating Vaccine Efficacy Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021.
  14. Divaris K, Slade GD, Ferreira Zandona AG, Preisser JS, Ginnis J, Simancas-Pallares MA, Agler CS, Shrestha P, Karhade DS, Ribeiro AD, Cho H, Gu Y, Meyer BD, Joshi AR, Azcarate-Peril MA, Basta PV, Wu D, North KE. Cohort profile: ZOE 2.0—a community-based genetic epidemiologic study of early childhood oral health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020.

Book Chapters

  1. Gu Y$^\dagger$, Divaris K, Gansky S. Imputation of Missing Data. Oral and Craniofacial Health Research: Principles, Methods and Applications, edited by Divaris K. Springer. In press.

Papers Under Review or In Revision

  1. Gu Y$^\dagger$, Zeng D, Lin DY. Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Interval-Censored Multi-State Data with An Absorbing State. Major revision requested by Journal of the American Statistical Association.
  2. Simancas-Pallares MA, Gormley A, Shrestha P, Gu Y, Cho H, Spangler HD, Burk Z, Smith M, Dashper S, Burgner D, Ferreira Zandoná AG, Ginnis J, Vann WF, Esberg A, Roach J, Ribeiro A, Wu D, Silva MJ, Holgerson PL, Haworth S, Johansson I, North KE, Divaris K. Evidence for Clinical Subtypes of Early Childhood Caries.
  3. Fang J#, Gu Y, Yin G. Pseudo-death: A New Measure to Evaluate Composite Outcomes in Survival Analysis.

Grants

  1. Hong Kong RGC-ECS Grant 27303624 (PI, 2025–2027). “Joint analysis of interval-censored multi-state data, longitudinal data, and competing risks data”.