My name is Zixuan (Eleanor) Zhang, 5th year PhD candidate in Biostatistics in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences (PPHS) at University of Southern California (USC). I am co-mentored by Dr. Nicholas Mancuso and Dr. Steven Gazal.

My research interest focus on developing efficient statistical and computational approaches applied in GWAS studies and QTL studies to better understand genetic architecture for human diseases and complex traits. I am currently working on a scalable computational tool (jaxQTL) for single cell eQTL mapping using GLM count-based model.

Before PhD, I graduated with a Bachelor degree in Genetic & Genomics from University of California, Davis in 2018 and received Master degree in Biostatistics from Columbia Univeristy Mailman School of Public Health in 2020.

Contact

Email: zzhang39@usc.edu

I am looking for postdoc position and will graduate in Spring 2025. Happy to chat with labs!