Welcome to Zhigang's Lab. The PI of this lab is Dr. Zhigang Li who is an associate professor with tenure  (University Preeminence hire) in the Dept of Biostatistics at University of Florida since 2018 (http://biostat.ufl.edu/profile/li-zhigang/). Prior to that, Dr. Li was an associate professor in the Dept of Biomedical Data Science, the Dept of Epidemiology (now adjunct associate professor) and the Dept of Community and Family Medicine and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center  in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Dr. Li received his PhD degree in biostatistics from Columbia University in 2010 and his BS degree in math from Nankai University in China in 2001. 

METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, microbiome data analysis, causal mediation analysis, zero-inflated data analysis, compositional data analysis,  study design, machine learning, high-dimensional data analysis,  longitudinal/correlated data analysis, hierarchical data analysis

APPLICATION AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am and have collaborated with investigators from many areas including Cancer Research, Palliative Care Research, Nursing Research, End-of-Life Research, Children’s Health Research, Neurology (AD, Dementia), Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Clinical Trials, Environmental Health Research,  Pediatrics, Dentistry, Bioengineering. 

We have openings for postdocs and grad students and welcome applications from candidates with interests in biostatistics, statistics or data science. Please contact Dr. Li at zhigang.li@ufl.edu to apply.