Yilong Zhang
Biostatistician
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYilong Zhang is a Biostatistician with 15 years of experience applying advanced statistical methods to clinical development and medical research, currently driving biostatistics efforts at Meta after leading late-stage program analytics at Merck. He combines deep expertise in survival analysis, transformation models, missing data methods and machine learning with hands-on R, C++ and SAS programming, and founded the R for Clinical Study Reports and Submission (r4csr.org) initiative to modernize regulatory reporting. Yilong has a strong academic foundation with a PhD in Biostatistics from NYU and a track record across academic medical centers and government-funded research consortia. Known for organizing multi-project teams and training others in reproducible regulatory workflows, he bridges rigorous methodology and practical, auditable analyses. An active open-source practitioner, he maintains resources and code that help standardize clinical-analysis pipelines beyond his day-to-day work.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, statistics, BA, statistics at Nankai UniversityMaster of Science, Biostatistics, Master of Science, Biostatistics at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics at New York University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (111)
biostatistics10
r10
rtf10
proportional10
quarto10
latex10
dplyr10
boundaries10
rich-text10
r-package10
docx10
reproducible-research10
clinical-trials10
figure10
sequential10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RConsortium/submissions-pilot1
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
development repo for pilot1 submission to FDA
Contributions:4 releases, 16 reviews, 90 commits in 5 months
fda
elong0527/NMIT
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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