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Zheyang Wu

Assistant Professor

Office: Stratton Hall, 101
Phone: +1-508-831-5031
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
zheyangwu@wpi.edu

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Educational Background

• PhD, Yale University, 2009

Research & Teaching Interests

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Statistical Decision Theory and High-dimensional Data Analysis, Statistical Experimental Design

IQP Advising Interests

Assessing social impacts of new biomedical technologies; visualizing and interpreting geographical information of social systems

Recent Publications

• Zheyang Wu, Hongyu Zhao, "Power of three model selection methods for genome-wide association data," PLoS Genetics 5(7): e1000582. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000582.

• Zheyang Wu and Huibin Zhou, "Model selection and sharp asymptotic minimaxity", submitted

• Zheyang Wu and Hongyu Zhao, "Power of multiple marker genome-wide search strategies for binary traits", submitted

• Zheyang Wu, Chatchawit Aporntewan, David Ballard, Ji Young Lee, Joon Sang Lee, and Hongyu Zhao (2009), "Two-stage joint selection method to identify candidate markers from genome-wide association studies," BMC Proceedings, 3(Suppl 7):S29.

• David Ballard, Chatchawit Aporntewan, Ji Young Lee, Joon Sang Lee, Zheyang Wu, and Hongyu Zhao (2009), "A pathway analysis applied to GAW 16 Genome Wide Rheumatoid Arthritis Data," BMC Proceedings, 3(Suppl 7):S91

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Professional Societies/Memberships

• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)         
• The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)           
• International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)