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Yang Feng is a Professor of Biostatistics and the Ph.D. Program Director at the School of Global Public Health at New York University. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Data Science. Dr. Feng obtained his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Princeton University in 2010. His research interests focus on the theoretical and methodological aspects of machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, social network models, and nonparametric statistics, with practical applications in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer classification, and electronic health records. His work has been supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), including the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. He serves as an Associate Editor for several journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and the Annals of Applied Statistics. Dr. Feng is recognized as a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.