Zehang Li
Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZehang Li is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Santa Cruz with 13 years of research and applied experience bridging academic statistics and public health. He completed a PhD at the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral scholar in Forrest Crawford’s lab at Yale School of Public Health, where he worked on biostatistics problems with real-world impact. His background includes industry research at Microsoft on product-competition analysis from aggregated sales data, reflecting a strength in marrying statistical theory with large-scale, practical data challenges. Trained in risk management science and seasoned across international academic settings, he brings a quantitative, interdisciplinary approach to methodological development and collaboration. Visit zehangli.com for publications and ongoing projects.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at University of WashingtonSummer School, Summer School at UC BerkeleyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
r-package10
bayesian-inference10
java5
sublime-text3
sublime2
gaussian2
statistics1
ide1
machine-learning1
python1
gamma1
visualization1
perfect1
r1
tax1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
verbal-autopsy-software/InterVA4
Feb 2014 - Feb 2022
R package for InterVA=4 software
Contributions:67 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 8 years 1 month
r-packagerstats
verbal-autopsy-software/openVA
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
R package for openVA: a suite of tools for multiple VA methods
Contributions:142 commits, 4 PRs, 123 pushes in 6 years 11 months
r-packagesuite
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