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
9-27-2024: Our application paper “Sex and APOE-ε4 Allele Differences in Longitudinal White Matter Microstructure in Multiple Cohorts of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease” has been accepted for publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia <DOI | BioRxiv>.
9-8-2024: I will chair an invited session for the 2025 Lifetime Data Science (LiDS 2025) Conference that will be held in Brooklyn, NY (May 28-30, 2025). The confirmed speakers are Drs. Ana Capuano (Rush), Sarah Lotspeich (WFU), Tery Therneau (Mayo) and Chengjie Xiong (WashU).
7-30-2024: Our application paper “Characterizing Patterns of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Variance in Aging Brains” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Imaging <DOI | MedRxiv>.
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.