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.

I am the Publications Officer of the ASA Statistics in Imaging Section (2023 - 2024).
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).

Our new method paper “The Sackin index and depth of leaves in generalized Schröder trees” has been accepted for publication in Stochastic Models. The paper is at the stage of final round of proofreading.
Our new neuroimaging paper “Empirical assessment of the assumptions of ComBat with diffusion tensor imaging” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Imaging. The paper is currently in press.
Our new algorithm paper “A strength and sparsity preserving algorithm for generating weighted, directed networks with predetermined assortativity” has been accepted for publication in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. The preprint can be found on ArXiv.

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

The creation of my personal website is based on the template provided by Professor Stuart Geiger.