Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 – present
Faculty member, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Gene Networks in Neural Development and Plasticity, 2014 – present
Faculty affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Computing Genomes for Reproductive Health, 2014 – present
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology & Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2012 – 2014
Research Interests
Statistical genomics
High-dimensional statistics
Survival analysis
Education
PhD, Biostatistics, Harvard University, 2012
A.M., Statistics, Harvard University, 2007
A.B., Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University, 2007
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
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Recent Publications
Avalos, A., Fang, M., Pan, H., Ramirez Lluch, A., Lipka, A. E., Zhao, S. D., Giray, T., Robinson, G. E., Zhang, G., & Hudson, M. E. (2020). Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922927117
Zhao, S. D., & Nguyen, Y. T. (2020). Nonparametric false discovery rate control for identifying simultaneous signals. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 14(1), 110-142. https://doi.org/10.1214/19-EJS1663
Saul, M. C., Blatti, C., Yang, W., Bukhari, S. A., Shpigler, H. Y., Troy, J. M., Seward, C. H., Sloofman, L., Chandrasekaran, S., Bell, A. M., Stubbs, L., Robinson, G. E., Zhao, S. D., & Sinha, S. (2019). Cross-species systems analysis of evolutionary toolkits of neurogenomic response to social challenge. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 18(1), e12502. [e12502]. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12502
Xiang, D., Zhao, S. D., & Tony Cai, T. (2019). Signal classification for the integrative analysis of multiple sequences of large-scale multiple tests. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology, 81(4), 707-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssb.12323
Biscarri, W., Zhao, S. D., & Brunner, R. J. (2018). A simple and fast method for computing the Poisson binomial distribution function. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 122, 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.007