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Zhexuan Yang is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University, where he focuses on the fields of Bayesian Statistics, Functional Data Analysis, Longitudinal Analysis, and Survival Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Science with a concentration in Statistics from Northern Illinois University in 2025. Zhexuan's research primarily involves Bayesian functional data analysis and its application to genetic research, particularly in the study of DNA methylation. He is also involved in developing statistical software, including the 'mmcmcBayes' R package, which implements a multistage Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Bayesian framework for detecting differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in epigenetic data.
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