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
Among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in their fields according to studies published by Stanford University (2023, 2022).
Recipient of the College of Public Health Faculty Research Award, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa (2023)
One of the two recipients of the Best Paper Award for “Treatment Effects on an Outcome under Nonlinear Modeling”, 2020 Meeting of International Society for Data Science and Analytics (2020)
Inducted into Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa (2019)
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3229-9866
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
* as of 2024-01-04
Biostatistics (service)
Biostatistics (biostat)
Statistical Genetics
Former PhD Students
Department of Biostatistics
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
College of Public Health Faculty Website
kai-wang@uiowa.edu
1-319-384-1594 (phone)
1-319-384-1591 (fax)
N322 CPHB
145 N Riverside Dr
Iowa City, IA 52242
USA