Weijing Tang 唐沩婧
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
Emails: wtang AT hsph DOT harvard DOT edu
wtang.stat AT gmail DOT com (preferred)
About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biostatistics at Harvard University, working with Prof. Tianxi Cai. In Fall 2023, I will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Michigan, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ji Zhu. In 2016, I received a B.S. in Mathematics from Tsinghua University.
I am broadly interested in developing statistical methodology and theory for survival analysis, network analysis, and statistical machine learning, with applications to healthcare problems. My research is largely motivated by challenges arising from analyzing massive and complex datasets for interdisciplinary research.
Honors and Awards
2022 Departmental Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
2022 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2021 Student Paper Award, Statistical Learning and Data Science Section, ASA
2021 Distinguished Student Paper Award, ENAR International Biometric Society
2020 Grand Prize (Awarded $20,000), COVID-19 Data Challenge, American Heart Association
2020 Best Oral Presentation, Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences
2020 Student Paper Award, Nonparametric Statistics Section, ASA
2020-2021 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2018 Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Summer Student Fellowship, University of Michigan
2017-2018 Rackham International Student Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2016-2017 Outstanding First Year PhD Student Award, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
2013-2016 Tsinghua Xuetang Talents Program in Mathematics, Tsinghua University
2013-2015 Academic Outstanding Scholarship, Tsinghua University
News & Updates
Our work "Survival Analysis via ODE" was just accepted at JASA. (Dec 28, 2021)
I presented our work on deep survival analysis at ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium. (Sep 12, 2021)
I presented our work on population-level balance in signed networks in SLDS student paper award session at JSM. (Aug 10, 2021)
I presented our work on survival analysis via ODE at ENAR Spring Meeting (Mar 15, 2021) and ASA Ann Arbor Chapter meeting (Mar 30, 2021).
I was honored to receive the poster award at 2021 UMich Stats PhD Visit Day, voted by prospective students.
(Mar 12, 2021)Our work on population-level balance for signed networks won ASA SLDS Section 2021 Student Paper Award. (Jan 15, 2021)
Our work on survival analysis via ODE won ENAR 2021 Distinguished Student Paper Award. (Dec 9, 2020)
Our team investigated the association of university reopening policies with the local spread of COVID-19 cases, and won the Grand Prize of AHA COVID-19 Data Challenge!
(Dec 3, 2020)