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Chinese-American biostatistician

Hongmei Zhang is a Chinese-American biostatistician at the University of Memphis, where she is Bruns Endowed Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, director of the division, program coordinator for biostatistics, and affiliated professor in the departments of mathematical sciences and biology.^[1] Her statistical interests include feature selection, biclustering, and Bayesian networks; she is also interested in the application of statistical methods to phenotype and genetic data and to epigenetics.^[2]

Education and career

Zhang has three master's degrees: one in electronic engineering, earned in 1997 from the Nanjing Institute of Technology, a second one in mathematics in 1999 from Truman State University, and a third one in statistics in 2001 from Iowa State University.

She completed her Ph.D. at Iowa State University in 2003.^[1] Her dissertati Zhang Hongmei - Moviefone XEPUF