Industrial Experience

• 2021/05 - present: Biostatistician @Merck

• 2020/06 - 2020/08: Quantitative Analyst · Intern @Wells Fargo

• 2019/05 - 2019/08: Biostatistician · Intern @Roche

Peer-Reviewer Experience

• Serve as Associate Editors of:

  • Contemporary Clinical Trials

• Serve as reviewers of:

  • Technometrics

  • Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

  • Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

  • Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

  • Statistical Methods in Medical Research

  • Journal of Applied Statistics

  • BMC Bioinformatics

  • SoftwareX

Awards

• Honorable Mention in the 2025 JSM poster competition

  • Y. Zhao, Q. Liu, L. Sun, & K. Anderson (2025). Adjusted Inference for Multiple Testing Procedure in Group-Sequential Designs. Biometrical journal

• Best Papers Award 2025 in Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

  • Anderson, K. M., Zhao, Y., Xiao, N., Ge, J., & Weisman, H. F. (2024). Some Group Sequential Trials from Industry over the Last 30 Years. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

• Georgia Tech ARC-TRIAD 2023 fellowship