Jianxin Shi received a B.S. in mathematics and a B.S. in economics from Beijing University in 1999. He then obtained an M.S. of information science from Beijing University in 2002. He received his Ph.D. of statistics from Stanford University under the supervision of Dr. David Siegmund in 2006. Dr. Shi then spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow and one year as Research Scientist in Health Research and Policy (HRP) at the Department of Psychiatric and Behavior Science at Stanford University, working on genome-wide association studies of breast cancer, schizophrenia and recurrent depression. Dr. Shi joined the Biostatistics Branch of DCEG at NCI as a tenure-track principal investigator in August 2009. He was awarded scientific tenure by the NIH in 2016.

Boundary probability approximation of scan statistics of multiple dimensions; Importance sampling and its application to genetic studies; Copy number variants detection based on GWAS genotyping platforms; Integrative analysis of GWAS, microarray expression, eQTL, mQTL, and Chip-Seq data, with applications to cancer genetics and psychiatric genetics;