Welcome to Qing Zhou's Home Page

Assistant Professor Department of Statistics University of California, Los Angeles 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554 Los Angeles, CA 90095 Email: zhou@stat.ucla.edu Phone: (310)794-7563

Ph.D., Statistics, Harvard University, 2006
BS/MS, Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2001

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Research Interests:

• Computational biology: (1) Statistical modeling and computational detection of transcription factor binding motifs and cis-regulatory modules, with the use of information in combinatorial control and evolutionary conservation of transcription factors to enhance predictive power. (2) Statistical methodology for integrated analysis of gene expression data, transcription factor binding data (ChIP-chip/seq), and genomic sequence data, with applications to statistical inference of gene regulatory networks.  
• Monte Carlo methods: Energy-temperature design in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, characterization of statistical and topological structures of energy landscapes from Monte Carlo samples, integration of Monte Carlo sampling and exploration of energy landscapes, applications in Bayesian inference and statistical physics.

Other links:

• Center for Statistical Research in Computational Biology, Department of Statistics, UCLA
• Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics, UCLA
• UCLA Inter-school Training Program in Metabolic Diseases
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• American Statistical Association