Greetings! This is Zihang Wang, a Ph.D. candidate 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 Statistics and Data Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021
- B.S. in Statistics, Nankai University, 2020
News
- [Jul. 2025] Received the NSF Travel Award for 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium.
- [Jun. 2025] Named the 2025-2026 Livingston Scholar, Rollins School of Public Health.
- [Jun. 2025] Invited oral presentation at 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Storrs, CT.
- [May. 2025] Ph.D. statistician summer intern at Eli Lilly and Company.
- [May. 2025] Invited oral presentation at 2025 Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference, Houston, TX.
- [May. 2025] The Sparse ICA paper won the JASA reproducibility award.
- [Jan. 2025] The R package
SparseICAis now on CRAN.
Contact
- Email: zihang [dot] wang [at] emory [dot] edu