Kai Wang, PhD

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I am Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Iowa who is interested in providing statistical solutions to challenging problems arising from scientific research, in particular those from genetics/genomics, bioinformatics, and big data.

Honors

  • World’s top 2% scientist (Stanford/Elsevier list, 2024, 2023, 2022).

  • College of Public Health Faculty Research Award, College of Public Health, University of Iowa (2023)

  • Best Paper Awards for “Treatment Effects on an Outcome under Nonlinear Modeling”, 2020 Meeting of International Society for Data Science and Analytics (2020). (There were two recipients in total.)

  • Dr. Carol S. Gleich Development Award, College of Public Health, University of Iowa (2023)

  • Inducted into Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa (2019)

Research

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3229-9866

Google Scholar Citations

Recent Research Interests

  • Mendelian randomization

  • Mediation analysis

  • RNA-Seq normalization

  • Analysis of human microbiome data

  • Gene-based association methods for mapping rare genetic variants

  • Regularized regression for big data, machine learning, and network data

R Packages

  • iGasso: Tools for genetic association analysis, indexed by OmicTools. Downloads: 41,762*
  • ExactPath: Exact solution path for linear LASSO regression. Downloads: 15,009*
  • iMediate: Likelihood-based mediation analysis. Downloads: 31,123*

* as of 2024-09-21

Teaching

Biostatistics (service)

  • Introduction to Biostatistics
  • Research Data Management
  • Applied Categorical Data Analysis
  • Applied Survival Analysis

Biostatistics (biostat)

  • Biostatistical Methods I
  • Biostatistical Methods II
  • Biostatistical Methods in Categorical Data
  • Survival Analysis

Statistical Genetics

  • Statistical Genetics: Continuous Traits
  • Computing Algorithms in Statistical Genetics
  • Population and Quantitative Genetics
  • Advanced Biostatistics Seminar: Statistical Genetics/Genomics

Students

Former PhD Students

Contact

     Department of Biostatistics
     College of Public Health
     University of Iowa

     College of Public Health Faculty Website

    
     1-319-384-1594 (phone)
     1-319-384-1591 (fax)

     N322 CPHB
     145 N Riverside Dr
     Iowa City, IA 52242
     USA