Dr. Wei Xu received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Toronto. He is currently a scientist and principle biostatistician in Princess Margaret Hospital on clinical research of cancer diseases. He is a faculty member at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics. Dr. Xu's research interests are statistical genetics and clinical trial design and analysis. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications in peer-review journals.
Zhi Yang is a Senior Manager in Biostatistics at Bristol Myers Squibb (2021-). She holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include data science, machine learning, genomics, public health, Bayesian inference, and cancer research.
RESEARCH WORK
2011-Present: Vice Director, Office for Medical planning and science research, Fudan University
2010-Present: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2007-2015: Director of Department of Health education
Vice-Director of Clinical Research Institute, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Director of Fudan University, School of Public Health, VitalStrategic Evidence-based Medicine Research Center
2007-2009: Vice-Director of Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University
2000-2007: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director of Department of Preventive Medicine
Director of Center for Medical calculation
Faculty of medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai PRC
1998-2000: Associate professor of Epidemiology
Faculty of medicine, Shanghai Tiedao University, Shanghai PRC
1995-1996, 1998: Cooperative research scholar
Department of public health
Faculty of medicine
Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam NL