Summary
Zihan Wang is a graduate research assistant and first-year Master of Biomedical Informatics student at Harvard Medical School with seven years of experience applying data science to statistical genetics, epigenetics, and DNA methylation projects. Trained at Simon Fraser University and experienced at UBC’s Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Zihan has handled large-scale GWAS and next-generation sequencing datasets, developed analysis pipelines, and published work on interactive visualization for active learning. He combines rigorous statistical training and software development (including a Dataprep cleaning module capstone) with hands-on research in disease genetics such as asthma and peanut allergy. Based in Boston but shaped by extensive international travel and an outdoors-oriented, photographic eye, he brings a global perspective and curiosity-driven approach to biomedical data problems.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Science, High School Diploma, Science at Qingdao No. 2 High School
Business, Business at Fraser International College
Master of Biomedical Informatics, Medical Informatics, Master of Biomedical Informatics, Medical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Cross-registration, Computational Science, Cross-registration, Computational Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (Hons. & First Class Distinction), Data Science, Co-op Education, Bachelor of Science (Hons. & First Class Distinction), Data Science, Co-op Education at Simon Fraser University
French, Chinese, English