Research Interests

• Sequential statistics, covariate-adaptive randomization (CAR)

• Inference in randomized control trials

• AI in clinical trials

Methodology research

1.  Z.Zhao, Y.Song, W.Jiang, D.Tu, "Consistent covariances estimation for stratum imbalances under minimization method for covariate-adaptive randomization"; Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2024, 1-30 (https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12703). 

2. Z.Zhao and F.Hu, "Discretization in covariate-adaptive clinical trials: Theory and practical recommendations"; Under revision.

3. Z.Zhao, Y.Song and W.Jiang, "Efficient treatment effect estimation for covariate-adaptive randomization with right-censored data"; in preparation.

4. Z.Zhao and F.Hu, "Can adaptive randomization truly balance unobserved covariates?"; in preparation.

Applications research

1.  Z.Ren, Z.Zhao, Z.Ma, Q. Shi, "Leveraging AI for modeling Minimal residual disease and survival outcomes in Multiple Myeloma"; submitted to Cancer Research Communications. 

2. Z.Zhao, Z.Ren, G. Zhai, F.Hu, Z.Ma, E. Xie, Q. Shi, "SynthIPD: assumption-lean synthetic individual patient data generation"; in preparation.