- Causal Inference: causal machine learning, hierarchical causal framework, quantile treatment effect.
- Neuroimaging Statistics: dimension reduction, motion correction, brain connectivity network.
- Statistical Genetics: multi-trait modeling, genetic nurture, polygenic risk score prediction.
- Wang Z., Gaynanova I., Aravkin A., Risk B. B. (2024). Sparse Independent Component Analysis with an Application to Cortical Surface fMRI Data in Autism. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–13.
- Wu Y., Furuya S., Wang Z., Nobles J., Fletcher J.†, Lu Q.† (2022). GWAS on birth year infant mortality rates provides evidence of recent natural selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(12): e2117312119. Accompanying commentary article.
- Li J., Zhang Q., Wang Z., Lu Q. (2022). Research domain criteria (RDoC) mechanisms of transdiagnostic polygenic risk for trajectories of depression: from early adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(6), 567-574.
- Li J., He Q., Wang Z., Lu Q. (2022). Enhancing the discriminatory power of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder polygenic scores in clinical and non-clinical samples. Submitted to Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. (preprint available on medRxiv)
- SparseICA: an R package for sparse independent component analysis in fMRI data.
- Oral presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR, Aug 2024
- Poster presentation at Georgia Statistics Day (GSD), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Oct 2023.
- Oral presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2023
- Poster presentation at Statistical Methods in Imaging (SMI), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 2023
- Oral presentation at Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics (CBIS), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2022
- Student Paper Award (Runner-up), Statistics in Imaging Section, American Statistical Association, 2024
- Patel-Naik Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Proposal, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, 2022
- Academic Excellence Award, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020