Zhang, Tianyi

Ph.D, Statistician,

State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Download my resume: Curriculum Vitae (Aug 2010).

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Education

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK (Sep 2006-May 2010)

Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.0                                    

• Ph. D in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (May 2010)
• M. S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (May 2008)
• Related Coursework: Categorical Statistics | Regression Analysis | Mathematical Statistics | Time Series Analysis | Exploratory Data Analysis | Linear Programming | Experimental Design | Survival Analysis

PEKING UNIVERSITY (Sep 2002-Jun 2006)  

Major GPA: 3.6/4.0 | Cumulative GPA: 3.4/4.0 | GRE QUANT:800/800

• B.A. in Statistics | Yuanpei Pilot Program (highly selective curriculum only to first year freshmen class)
• Related Coursework: Advanced Algebra & Calculus | Mathematical Modeling | Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis | Probability Theory | Algorithms and Data Structure using C++ |Statistical Software

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Research Experience

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Department of Applied Math and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook

Visting Assistant Professor (Aug 2010-Present)

Department of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook

Postdoc Associate for Dr. Ellen LI (Jun 2010-Present)

• Large Scale Microarray Analysis in Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, collaborated with Department of Medicine, Washington University at St. Louis.
• Genome-wide Gene Expression Study to Identify Biomarkers and Classification Study for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
• Extended Structure Equation Modeling for Categorical Data and Mixed Design.

Department of Applied Math and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook

Research Assistant for Prof. Wei ZHU (Jun 2007-Present)

• Dissertation: Structural Equation Modeling with Time Series, applicable to finance models, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and time-course microarray data, collaborated with Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Comparative study on orthogonal and geometric mean regression, collaborated with Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Joint Multivariate Analysis on Aerosol Mass Spectra, funded by SciDAC program of Department of Energy.
• Compound Hierarchical Cluster Analysis on neuronal microarray data, collaborated with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Partial Correlation Network Analysis to identify nicotine dependence SNPs, collaborated with National Institution on Drug Abuse.
• Pathway Analysis in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Study, collaborated with Department of Medicine, Washington University at St. Louis.

School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University

B. S. thesis guided by Prof. Zhi GENG (Feb 2006-Jun 2006)

• A General Review on Collective Mining of Bayesian Network from Distributed Heterogeneous Data.

Research Assistant for Prof. XiangZhong FANG (Jun 2005-Aug 2005)

• Path analysis on traditional Chinese medical data, collaborated with China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.

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Publications

• Zhang, T., Zhu, W., and McGraw, R. Joint Multivariate Analysis of Aerosol Mass Spectra. (submitted to Journal of Ecology and Environmental Statistics). (2009)
• Zhang, T., Zhu, W., and McGraw, R. Cluster analysis combined with non-negative least squares and its application. Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 125. (2008)
• Leng, L., Zhang, T., Kleinman, L., and Zhu, W. Ordinary least squares regression, orthogonal regression, geometric mean regression and their applications in aerosol science. Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 787. (2007)

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Leadership

• Instructor for graduate course Statistical Computing (Jan 2009-May 2009)
• Vice President of Stony Brook Chinese Scholars and Students Association (Mar 2007-Mar 2008)
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course Elementary Statistics (Sep 2006-May 2007)              
• President of Student Union of Yuanpei Pilot Program (Sep 2003-Sep 2004)
• Vice chairman of Student Union of Yuanpei Pilot Program (Sep 2002-Sep 2003)
• Leader of the Yuanpei Debate Team (the Champion Team of PKU) (Mar 2003- Apr 2006)

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Awards

• Full-tuition scholarship at State University of New York at Stony Brook (2006-present)
• Graduate Merit Award (5% of undergraduate class) of Beijing City (2006)
• Triple-A student at Peking University for 3 years (2003/2004/2005)
• Top 100 among 330,000 students in Zhejiang Province in the National University Entrance Examination (2002) 

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Skills

• Languages: Chinese, English
• Software: SAS Certificated (Score 94% in SAS Advanced Programming Exam), Proficient in Excel, R, and MATLAB

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Hobbies

• Poem: I love Chinese classical literature, especially poems. I am a poet with some publications, and once was the board manager of Poems at Weiming BBS, Peking University.
• Debate: As the debate team leader for nearly four years, I really love this game and our family-like team.

• Sports: Badminton, swimming, basketball, cycling... I do like many kinds of sports, but I am not good at them.

• Others: Go (a kind of Chinese chess, weiqi), traveling, PC games, Table games (AD&D, Romance of three kingdoms, etc.).