PhD, Statistics
University of British Columbia
MSc, Statistics
University of British Columbia
MS, Engineering and Computer Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
BSc, Mathematics
Peking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Zhang is a statistical methodologist and experienced biostatistician with skills in developing theory and computer algorithms for complex longitudinal data and with expertise in collaborative research. He is particularly interested in computationally intensive algorithms and computationally efficient alternatives.
Projects
Developing Statistical Methods on Event History Data Subject to Data Complexities for HIV Disease Progression and Policy Evaluation
2023 – Present
Obtaining population-based estimates of the timing of antiretroviral therapy using HIV surveillance data
2020 – Present
Publications
Targeted design for adaptive clinical trials via semiparametric model.
October 2020 | International Journal of Biostatistics
Contraceptive Use by Women Across Multiple Components of Sexual Orientation: Findings from the 2011-2017 National Survey of Family Growth.
August 2020 | LGBT Health
Public Health Benefits of Water Purification Using Recycled Hemodialyzers in Developing Countries.
July 2020 | Scientific Reports
Dimensions of Sexual Orientation as Predictors of STI-Related Outcomes Among Women: An Examination of 2011-2017 National Survey of Family Growth Data.
June 2020 | Journal of Women's Health
A Multistate Joint Model for Interval-Censored Event-History Data Subject to Within-Unit Clustering and Informative Missingness, With Application to Neurocysticercosis Research.
June 2020 | Statistics in Medicine
Stoma or No Stoma: First Report of Intestinal Transplantation Without Stoma.
May 2020 | American Journal of Transplantation
Joint model of accelerated failure time and mechanistic nonlinear model for censored covariates, with application in HIV/AIDS.
December 2019 | Annals of Applied Statistics
A longitudinal analysis of albendazole treatment effect on neurocysticercosis cyst evolution using multistate models.
August 2019 | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Exploring the complex associations over time among albendazole treatment, cyst evolution, and seizure outcomes in neurocysticercosis.
July 2019 | Epilepsia
Comparing Receipt of Cervical Cancer Screening and Completion of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Using a New Construct of Sexual Orientation: A Serial Cross-Sectional Study.
May 2019 | LGBT Health.
A non‐linear model for censored and mismeasured time varying covariates in survival models, with applications in human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome studies.
November 2018 | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C
Mixed Effects Models with Censored Covariates, with Applications in HIV/AIDS Studies.
June 2018 | Journal of Probability and Statistics
A mechanistic nonlinear model for censored and mismeasured covariates in longitudinal models, with application in AIDS studies.
January 2018 | Statistics in Medicine
Hyaluronan-inorganic nanohybrid materials for biomedical applications.
May 2017 | Biomacromolecules
The Cedar Project: Residential transience and HIV vulnerability among young Aboriginal people who use drugs.
May 2015 | Health & Place
The Cedar Project: Historical trauma and vulnerability to sexual assault among young aboriginal women who use illicit drugs in two Canadian cities.
March 2015 | Violence Against Women
The Cedar Project: Impacts of policing among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in British Columbia, Canada.
September 2013 | The International Journal on Drug Policy
Postoperative infection treatment score for the spine (PITSS): Construction and validation of a predictive model to define needfor single versus multiple irrigation and debridement for spinal surgical site infection.
March 2012 | The Spine Journal
Surgical management of primary bone tumors of the spine: Validation of an approach to enhance cure and reduce local recurrence.
May 2011 | Spine
Association of clinical findings with pre-radiographic and radiographic knee osteoarthritis in a population-based study.
December 2010 | Arthritis care & research
Relationship of neural axis level of injury to motor recovery and health-related quality of life in patients with a thoracolumbar spinal injury.
July 2010 | The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Antenatal depression and anxiety affect postpartum parenting stress: A longitudinal, prospective study.
April 2010 | Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Cerebrospinal fluid inflammatory cytokines and biomarkers of injury severity in acute human spinal cord injury.
April 2010 | Journal of Neurotrauma
Magnesium chloride in a polyethylene glycol formulation as a neuroprotective therapy for acute spinal cord injury: preclinical refinement and optimization.
August 2009 | Journal of Neurotrauma
Association of biomarkers with pre-radiographically defined and radiographically defined knee osteoarthritis in a population-based study.
May 2009 | Arthritis and rheumatism
Factors influencing patient satisfaction when undergoing endoscopic procedures.
April 2009 | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Meta-analysis: Prophylactic drainage and bleeding complications in thyroid surgery.
December 2008 | Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Impact of associated conditions resulting from spinal cord injury on health status and quality of life in people with traumatic central cord syndrome.
June 2008 | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Utility of intraoperative parathyroid hormone measurement in predicting postparathyroidectomy hypocalcemia.
February 2008 | Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Accuracy of the Weber and Rinne tuning fork tests in evaluation of children with otitis media with effusion.
August 2007 | The Journal of Otolaryngology
Hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are associated with endothelial dysfunction during the development of type 2 diabetes.
May 2007 | Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Outpatient autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma.
October 2006 | Annals of Hematology