Yiwei Zhang
Biostatistician
- Role
- Interim Head of Biometrics at Apellis Pharmaceuticals
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yiwei Zhang
Doctoral degree in Biostatistics achieved in July 2013 with strength in population stratification (machine learning), multivariate association testing and dimension reduction in sparse matrix. • Years of professional experience as phase biostatistician in drug companies of different sizes• Worked in both common and rare disease areas• Rich experience in operational work as well as innovative methods, including Bayesian borrowing historical data and unblinded sample size estimation • Experience in supporting filing, reimbursement, and acting as functional representative in regulatory interactions• Experience in mentoring interns and junior statisticians• A competent team player as well as independent performer• Detail attentional but also strategic thinking• Statistical software: R, SAS, PLINK, WinBUGS, JMP, STATA, SPSS, nQuery Operating environment: Unix/Linux, Windows• Languages: Bilingual in Chinese (native) and English
Experience
Interim Head of Biometrics
Feb 2026 — Present
Education
University of Minnesota
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics
2010 — 2013
Texas A&M University
Master of Science (MS), Statistics
2008 — 2010
Skills
- Plink
- Sas Programming
- Winbugs
- Econometrics
- Data Analysis
- Multivariate Analysis
- R
- Stata
- Statistical Modeling
- Statistical Programming
- Multivariate Statistics
- Statistics
- Sas
- Quantitative Analytics
- Spss
- Excel
- Jmp
- Latex
- Biostatistics
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