My Personal Website
Welcome to Panpan Zhang’s personal website. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (tenure track) in the Department of Biostatistics and an Assistant Professor of Neurology (secondary) in the Department of Neurology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Besides, I am a faculty member within the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center (VMAC), which is an NIA-funded exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) at VUMC.
Prior to joining VUMC, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (DBEI) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Penn), under the supervision of Professor Sharon X. Xie. From 2016 to 2018, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut.
My Biography
I grew up in Shanghai, China. I received M.A. in Mathematics from Wake Forest University in 2012, and started my doctoral training in the Department of Statistics at the George Washington University in the same year. I got Ph.D. in Statistics in 2016. My dissertation was On Properties of Several Random Networks under the supervision of Professor Hosam M. Mahmoud.
Services
- I am a Member of the Parkinson Study Group Scientific Reivew Committee (2024 - 2027).
- I am an Inaugural Early Career Representative on the Data Core Steering Committee of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (2024 - 2026).
- I am the Publications Officer of the ASA Statistics in Imaging Section (2023 - 2025).
- I am an Associate Editor of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Since 2023).
- I am an Associate Editor of Journal of Data Science (Since 2020).
News
3-26-2025: Our clinical paper “Increased Sedentary Behavior Is Associated with Neurodegeneration and Worse Cognition in Older Adults over a 7-Year Period Despite High Levels of Physical Activity” has been accepted for publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia <DOI>.
3-10-2025: Our method paper “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model” has been accepted for publication in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications <DOI>.
2-21-2025: Our method paper “Autoregressive Bayesian Modeling of Censored HIV Longitudinal Data Using the Multivariate Student’s-t Distribution” has been accepted for publication in Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science <DOI>.
2-17-2025: Our clinical paper “White Matter Abnormalities and Cognition in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease” has been accepted for publication in JAMA Neurology (in press).
2-14-2025: Our clinical paper “The Effect of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Factors on Limbic White Matter Microstructure” has been accepted for publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia <DOI>.
2-6-2025: Our method paper “Rank-Based Assortativity for Weighted, Directed Networks” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Complex Networks <DOI>.
1-5-2025: Our application paper “Social Network Analysis as a New Tool to Measure Academic Impact of Physicians” has been accepted for publication in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology <DOI>.
Contact
- Address: 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11128A, Nashville, TN 37203, U.S.A.
- Phone: (615) 322-2001
- Primary Email: panpan (dot) zhang (at) vumc (dot) org
- Alternate Email: panpan (dot) zhang (dot) 1 (at) vanderbilt (dot) edu
Acknowledgment
The creation of my personal website is based on the template provided by Professor Stuart Geiger.