Zhongyang Zhang

Zhongyang (Thomas) Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate, Advisor: Chiara Sabatti
Department of Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles

8125 Math Sciences Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
zhangzy AT ucla DOT edu

Visiting Student
Department of Health Research and Policy, Biostatistics Division
Stanford University

HRP Redwood Building T202
Stanford, CA 94305-5405
zhangt AT stanford DOT edu

Education

CV, Research Statement

Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007-2012
M.S., Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Tsinghua University, 2005-2007
B.S., Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2001-2005

Research Interests

Statistical Genetics, Bioinformatics, Statistical Learning, Model Selection, Bayesian Statistics, and Monte Carlo Methods.

Publications

Zhang, Z., Lange, K., and Sabatti, C. (2012) Reconstructing DNA copy number by joint segmentation of multiple sequences. Submitted.

Ingason, A., Rujescu, D., Cichon, S., Sigurdsson, E., Sigmundsson, T., Pietilainen, O.P., Buizer-Voskamp, J.E., Strengman, E., Francks, C., Muglia, P., Gylfason, A., Gustafsson, O., Olason, P.I., Steinberg, S., Hansen, T., Jakobsen, K.D., Rasmussen, H.B., Giegling, I., Moller, H.J., Hartmann, A., Crombie, C., Fraser, G., Walker, N., Lonnqvist, J., Suvisaari, J., Tuulio-Henriksson, A., Bramon, E., Kiemeney, L.A., Franke, B., Murray, R., Vassos, E., Toulopoulou, T., Muhleisen, T.W., Tosato, S., Ruggeri, M., Djurovic, S., Andreassen, O.A., Zhang, Z., Werge, T., Ophoff, R.A., GROUP Investigators, Rietschel, M., Nothen, M.M., Petursson, H., Stefansson, H., Peltonen, L., Collier, D., Stefansson, K., and St Clair, D.M. (2011) Copy number variations of chromosome 16p13.1 region associated with schizophrenia . Molecular Psychiatry, 16(1): 17-25.

Zhang, Z., Lange, K., and Sabatti, C. (2010) Reconstructing DNA Copy Number by Penalized Estimation and Imputation. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4(4): 1749-1773.

Jasinska, A. J., Service, S., Jawaheer, D., DeYoung, J., Levinson, M., Zhang, Z., Kremeyer, B., Muller, H., Aldana, I., Garcia, J., Restrepo, G., Lopez, C., Palacio, C., Duque, C., Parra, M., Vega, J., Ortiz, D., Bedoya, G., Mathews, C., Davanzo, P., Fournier, E., Bejarano, J., Ramirez, M., Araya Ortiz, C., Araya, X., Molina, J., Sabatti, C., Reus, V., Ospina, J., Macaya, G., Ruiz-Linares, A., and Freimer, N. B. (2009) A Narrow and Highly Significant Linkage Signal for Severe Bipolar Disorder in the Chromosome 5q33 Region in Latin American Pedigrees. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 150B(7): 998-1006.

Teaching Asistant

STATS C180/236: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics ( Winter 2008, Fall 2008 )
STATS 202C: Monte Carlo Methods in Statistics ( Spring 2009 )

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