Pei Zhang joined DCEG as a predoctoral fellow in the Biostatistics Branch (BB) in September 2021. She received her M.S. at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016 and is currently working on her Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In BB, Ms. Zhang is developing mixed modeling approaches for examining the relationship between high-dimensional biomarker/genomics data and subsequent cancer risk, under the mentorship of Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong, Ph.D., senior investigator, and Paul S. Albert, Ph.D., branch director and senior investigator.