Zhongyang Zhang

Zhongyang Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles

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

Education

M.S., Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
M.S., Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Tsinghua University, 2007
B.S., Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, 2005

Research Interests

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

Publications

Zhang, Z., Lange, K., and Sabatti, C. (2009) Reconstructing DNA Copy Number by Penalized Estimation and Imputation. In submission.

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, to appear.

Teaching Asistant

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

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