Zhi Yang received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Southern California. She currently works as a Senior Manager in Biostatistics at Bristol Myers Squibb. She previously worked as a Biostatistician II at NanoString Technologies for two years. She is an organizer of the Los Angeles East R Users Group which is under the Southern California R Users Group, and serves in the organizing committee for 2020 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics.

She has been providing statistical support to a wide range of research teams in both academia and industry to answer real-life problems, including e-cigarette policy, Alzheimer’s prevention, drug marketing strategy, free-roaming dogs vaccination strategy in Africa, colorectal cancer development, e-cigarette use among adolescents and etc. She has over eight years’ programming experience in R, SAS, Python, SQL, and Stata. She is the author of five R packages on Bioconductor. She loves working with the heterogeneity of the data and finds it challenging and fun. She has been given >10 talks in national statistical conferences, machine learning conferences, and local meetup meetings.