Dr. Xuekui Zhang

Assistant Professor

Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria

Faculty of Science

Dr. Zhang joined the University of Victoria (2017) as an assistant professor & Canada Research Chair (tier 2).

He obtained a BSc (2000) and MSc (2003) in mathematics from Nankai University, MSc (2005) and PhD (2011) in statistics from University of British Columbia. Held a BCIC Innovation Scholarship (2007-2009) and a NSERC CGS-D scholarship (2009-2011) while completing a PhD in statistics under the supervision of Dr. Raphael Gottardo and Dr. Kevin P. Murphy.

He worked as postdoctoral researcher with NSERC PDF award (2011-2013) at the Dept. of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Dr. Hongkai Ji and Dr. Rafael Irizarry. Worked as MSc statistician at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and Sirius Genomics Inc. (2005-2009) and PhD statistician at Eli Lilly & Co. and AstraZeneca (2014-2017).

Has been a visiting scholar at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. (2011)

Research Areas

Airway Centre

Room 166, 1081 Burrard Street, St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1Y6
Tel 604 806 8346

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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