Lu Zhang
Investigator
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLu Zhang is a biostatistician and investigator with nine years of multidisciplinary experience bridging rigorous spatial and Bayesian methods, machine learning, and software development. Currently an Assistant Professor at USC and Investigator for the NIH-funded CLIMA Center, she applies advanced statistical modeling to climate-related exposures and health equity research. Trained at UCLA (Ph.D. in Biostatistics) and Fudan (Mathematics), she combines deep mathematical foundations with production-ready coding in R, C/C++, SAS, STATA and Java, and has built an R package during a Mayo Clinic internship. Her work uniquely blends academic research, teaching, and applied consultation, producing reproducible tools and analyses that inform public health policy. Based in Los Angeles, she brings both theoretical sophistication and practical software craftsmanship to complex environmental health problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Fudan UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (43)
bayesian-statistics10
bayesian-data-analysis10
automatic-differentiation10
bayesian10
sundials10
eigen10
stan10
cpp10
boost10
r9
quarto9
r-package9
linear-algebra9
bayesian-inference9
math-library9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LuZhangstat/LuZhangstat.github.io
Aug 2021 - Mar 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:87 pushes in 4 years 7 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
LuZhangstat/stan-dev.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Stan website based on the So Simple Jekyll theme.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
stanso-simplejekylljekyll-theme
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