Song Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

song.zhang@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Dr. Zhang joined the department of Clinical Sciences in September, 2007. He previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Zhang’s scientific research interest lies in Bayesian statistical methods and their application in longitudinal and survival data analysis, high-throughput data analysis, disease mapping, adpative design for clinical trials and missing data imputation. He earned a Doctorate in statistics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Zhang received a master’s degree in Econometrics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Management of Information System from Xiamen University, China.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Missouri-Columbia, Statistics (2005)

Research Interests

Bayesian statistical methods
Bioinformatics
Clinical trial design
Longitudinal and survival data analysis
Missing data methods

Publications

Featured
GO-Bayes: Gene Ontology-based overrepresentation analysis using a Bayesian approach.

Zhang S, Cao J, Kong YM, Scheuermann RH, Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2010 Apr; 26 (7):905-11

Featured
A Spatially-adjusted Bayesian Additive Regression Tree Model to Merge Two Datasets

S. Zhang, YCT. Shih and P. Muller , Bayesian Analysis , 2007; (2(3)):611-634

Featured
A Bayesian Semiparametric Model for Colorectal Cancer Incidence

S. Zhang, D. Sun, C. He and M. Schootman , Statistics in Medicine , 2006; (25(2)):285-309

Immunologic, clinical, and radiologic status 14 months after cessation of natalizumab therapy

Stuve O, Cravens PD, Frohman EM, Phillips JT, Remington GM, von Geldern G, Cepok S, Singh MP, Cohen Tervaert JW, De Baets M, MacManus D, Miller DH, Radu EW, Cameron EM, Monson NL, Zhang S, Kim R, Hemmer B, Racke MK. , Neurology , February 2009; (3;72(5).):396-401

Effects of Correlation and Missing Data on Sample Size Estimation in Longitudinal Clinical Trials

S. Zhang and C. Ahn , Pharmaceutical Statistics , December 2008;

How many measurements for time-averaged differences in repeated measurement studies?

Zhang S, Ahn C, Contemporary clinical trials, 2011 May; 32 (3):412-7

Bayesian optimal discovery procedure for simultaneous significance testing

Jing Cao, Xian-Jin Xie, Song Zhang , Angelique Whitehurst and Michael A White , Bioinformatics , 2009;

A Bayesian semi-parametric survival model with longitudinal markers

S.zhang, P. Muller and K. Anh-Do , Biometrics , 2009;

A Bayesian Discovery Procedure

M. Guindani, P. Muller, S. Zhang , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (statistical methodology) , 2009;

Honors/Awards

Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate travel awards

International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2008)

Graduate Professional Council Travel Scholarship

University of Missouri-Columbia (2004)

Outstanding Performance in Doctoral Exams

Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia (2003)

Excellent Student Award

Xiamen University, China (1999)

Third Prize

College Student Science and Technology Thesis Competition, Fujian, China (1998)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS)

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

The American Statistical Association