Zhi Yang
Senior Manager, Biostatistics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Yang is a Senior Manager in Biostatistics with 11 years of experience blending academic rigor and industry impact, currently leading statistical efforts at Bristol Myers Squibb. He holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from USC and has developed novel Bayesian hierarchical topic-model methods applied to cancer mutational signatures, released as R packages and Shiny apps on Bioconductor and GitHub. Zhi has a strong track record of translating complex data into actionable insights across domains—from e-cigarette policy and Alzheimer’s trials to vaccine strategies for free-roaming dogs—while routinely communicating results to non-technical stakeholders. He co-founded and organized multiple regional R user groups, helping grow the Southern California R community and regularly presenting at national conferences. An active open-source contributor and educator, he maintains a large Twitter following sharing Ph.D. career advice and data science tips, and his EB1-A approval with 200 citations underscores his recognized research influence.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics, 3.91, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics, 3.91 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physical Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physical Chemistry at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster of Science (M.S.), Analytical Chemistry & Physical Chemistry, Master of Science (M.S.), Analytical Chemistry & Physical Chemistry at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chinese, English
Github Skills (136)
tidyverse10
r10
r-package10
biodiversity10
frame10
cran10
bioconductor9
categorical9
rcc9
genomics9
single-cell-genomics9
reproducible-research9
bioinformatics9
normalization9
factor9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zhiiiyang/SDSS2019
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Materials for SDSS 2019, Bellevue WA
Contributions:61 commits, 7 PRs, 59 pushes in 6 months
deep-learningcomputer-visionmachine-learningsdss
zhiiiyang/zhiiiyang
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2891 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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