Jia Zhao, Ph.D.
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, mentored by Prof. Hongyu Zhao and Prof. Rui Chang. I obtained my PhD degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology supervised by Prof. Can Yang.
My broad area of interest lies in statistical machine learning and deep learning with their applications in genetics and genomics data. I have been working on deep learning methods for integrative analysis of large-scale single-cell datasets and spatial transcriptomics datasets, as well as statistical approaches for causal inference in genetics.
Employment
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, 2023.10-present.
Education
PhD in Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019.9-2023.8.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, 2015.9-2019.6.
Honors
HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award, HKUST, 2022.
Best Teaching Assistant for the Din-Yu Hsieh Teaching Awards, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2022.
Best Teaching Assistant for the Din-Yu Hsieh Teaching Awards, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2021.
Epsilon Fund Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, 2021.
HKUST Excellent Research Award, HKUST, 2019
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS), Research Grants Council (RGC), 2019-2023.
Beijing Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, 2019.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2018.