Yuanchao Zheng
Research Assistant at VA Boston Healthcare System
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuanchao Zheng is a biostatistician and research assistant with nine years of experience applying advanced statistical methods to neuroimaging, genomics, and clinical-trial data. Based at VA Boston’s National Center for PTSD and a visiting scholar with Duke’s Morey Neuroimaging Lab, he runs large-scale meta-analyses on computing clusters to study brain–genome interactions in PTSD. His background includes longitudinal and competing-risk analyses at Stanford, SAS programming and spatial modeling for oncology registries at Brown, and hands-on clinical trial mixed-effects work at Sage Therapeutics. He holds an MS from Brown and is pursuing a PhD in Biostatistics at Boston University, bringing a strong mix of reproducible research, automated reporting, and mentorship experience (teaching R). Notably, he combines heavy computational workflows in R/Python with practical registry and claims-data expertise to translate complex analyses into actionable clinical insights.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics at Brown UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics at Boston University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
structural-equation-modeling6
r-package5
gwas5
equation5
genetics5
modeling3
adjustment1
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ggzheng/SAS2017
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ggzheng/DMR_NullSimulations
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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