Zitao Zhang
Research Assistant at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZitao Zhang is a biostatistics researcher and data scientist with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, and high-performance computing to genomics and clinical trials. Currently a Research Assistant at Columbia Mailman, he specializes in single-cell RNA-seq analysis—using Seurat and LAMIAN—to reconstruct cellular trajectories and uncover dynamic gene expression linked to hematopoiesis and leukemia. His background spans industry and academia, from building MMRM analyses and R Shiny dashboards for a Phase 3 clinical trial at Bristol Myers Squibb to developing knockoff-based feature selection with deep VAE architectures at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Comfortable in R, Python, SQL, Rust, Go, and Ruby, Zitao blends rigorous Bayesian inference with practical pipeline engineering to make large-scale transcriptomic analyses reproducible and interpretable. He is drawn to precision medicine applications and often bridges computational method development with translational oncology teams to accelerate biomarker discovery.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Statistics: Data Science, Undergraduate, Statistics: Data Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Biostatistics, Master of Science - MS, Biostatistics at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Github Skills (68)
excelreader10
go-language10
excelize10
excel10
worker-pool10
spreadsheet10
statistics10
golang10
xlsx10
data-science10
vba10
analytics10
go10
openoffice10
xlsm10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zhangzitao/airtry
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
zhangzitao/blog
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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