Greetings! This is Zihang Wang, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University working with Professor Benjamin B. Risk. My research interests center around developing statistical methods and computational tools to analyze complex biomedical (neuroimaging/genetics) data.
Education
- Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Emory University, 2026 (Expected)
- M.S. in Staistics and Data Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021
- B.S. in Statistics, Nankai University, 2020
News
- [Aug. 2024] Chair a session (Topics in Causal Inference and Clinical Trials) at JSM.
- [Aug. 2024] Oral presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Portland, Oregon.
- [Jul. 2024] The paper with Drs. Irina Gaynanova, Aleksandr Aravkin, and Benjamin Risk on “Sparse Independent Component Analysis with an Application to Cortical Surface fMRI Data in Autism” has been published to Journal of the American Statistical Association. Link to R package.
- [May.-Aug. 2024] Internship at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
- [Jan. 2024] The Sparse ICA manuscript won student paper award in ASA Statistics in Imaging Section.
Contact
- Email: zihang [dot] wang [at] emory [dot] edu