Assistant Professor of Statistics

Ph.D. in Statistics, Purdue University, 2005

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Research Interests

• Computational Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Variable selection

Honors and Appointments

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics and Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University, 2005-2007.

Selected Publications

• Qian, T., Lu, S., Ma, H., Fang, J., Zhong, W., Wang, Y. (2012) FRET Imaging of Microenvironment Effects on Calcium Signaling in Live Cells. Integrative Biology, Accepted.
• Zhong, W. and Suslick, K., (2012) Penalized classification for matrix predictors with application to colorimetric sensor arrays. Technometrics, Accepted.
• Zeran Li; Devon Ptak; Liyun Zhang; Elwood K Walls; Wenxuan Zhong; Yuk Fai Leung, (2012) Phenylthiourea specifically reduces zebrafish eye size, PLoS ONE 7(6): e40132zzz.
• Zhang, Y., Yang, Y. Trujillo, C. Zhong, W. and Leung, Y. (2012) The expression of irx7 in the inner nuclear layer of zebrafish retina is essential for a proper development of both inner and outer nuclear layers and formation of retinal lamination. PLoS ONE 7(4): e36145.
• Parcel, T., Campbell, L.A. and Zhong, W. (2012) Children's behavior problems in the United States and Great Britain, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2012; 53(2):165-82
• Zhong, W., Zhang, T., Zhu, M. and Liu, J. S. (2012) Correlation pursuit: forward stepwise variable selection for index models, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser B. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01026.x
• Hensley, M.R. Emran, F., Bonilla, S. Zhang, L., Zhong, W., Grosu, P., Dowling, J.E. and Leung Y. F., (2011) Cellular Expression of Smarca4 (Brg1)-regulated Genes in Zebrafish Retinas, BMC Developmental Biology, 11:45.
• Feng, L., Lim, S. Kemling, J., Musto, C., Jiang, M., Lin, H., Zhong, W., Suslick, K. (2010) A colorimetric sensor array for determination and identification of toxic industrial chemicals. Analytical Chemistry, 82(22), 9433-9440.