My name is Zixuan (Eleanor) Zhang, PhD in Biostatistics in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences (PPHS) at the 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 large-scale 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 such as Poisson and Negative Binomial.

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 will be joining U Penn for my postdoc in Summer 2025.