News
Updates from Yize Zhao and the Zhao research group.
2026
- September 2026
Congratulations to our group's former postdoc Selena Wang on receiving an NIH R01 award as principal investigator at Indiana University! Yize Zhao serves as a co-investigator on the project.
- Fall 2026
Congratulations to our group's former postdoc Zhiling Gu on starting a tenure-track assistant professorship in Statistics at the University of South Carolina!
- Fall 2026
Congratulations to our group's former postdoc Simiao Gao on starting a tenure-track assistant professorship at Augusta University!
- August 2026
Welcome Yang Long, Jae Chang, and Fangyi Wang as postdoctoral researchers in the group!
- August 2026
Yize Zhao gives an invited presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston.
- July 2026
Yize Zhao gives an invited presentation at the International Biometric Conference (IBC) in Seoul, South Korea.
- July 2026
BHPI, led by Shengxian (Naomi) Ding with Haonan Gao, Pangpang Liu, Xinyuan Tian, and Yize Zhao, is featured as an oral paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
- June 2026
Welcome Luyang Fang as a postdoctoral researcher in the group!
- June 2026
Shengxian (Naomi) Ding, Emily Johns, Anton Orlichenko, and collaborators publish a Bayesian framework linking brain connectivity and shape in The Annals of Applied Statistics.
- June 2026
Yize Zhao, Xinyuan Tian, and Zhihao Wu give invited presentations at the Statistical Methods in Imaging (SMI) conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- June 2026
Congratulations to Yumeng Yan on admission to the PhD program in Biomathematics at UCLA!
- June 2026
Congratulations to Eric Gao on starting a new position as a Data Scientist at Polymer Capital Management!
- June 2026
Yize Zhao is elected 2027 Program Chair-Elect of the American Statistical Association's Statistics in Imaging Section.
- May 2026
Yize Zhao is named a 2026 Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence by the National Academy of Medicine.
- April 2026
A study jointly led by Simiao Gao, Zhiling Gu, and Shengxian (Naomi) Ding connects brain organization with development, behavior, and genetics in Nature Communications.
- January 2026
Congratulations to alumna Yiting Wang, winner, and PhD student Xinyuan Tian, runner-up, in the American Statistical Association's Statistics in Imaging Student Paper Competition!
2025
- December 2025
LatentSNA, led by alumna Selena Wang with Xinzhi Zhang, Yunhe Liu, Wanwan Xu, Xinyuan Tian, and Yize Zhao, is published in Nature Methods.
- September 2025
Yize Zhao moderates a discussion on statistical leadership for AI-enabled health with Xihong Lin and Hongtu Zhu, hosted by COPSS and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
- August 2025
Yize Zhao receives the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leader Award.
- January 2025
Yize Zhao receives the Institute of Mathematical Statistics' Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award.