معرفی
Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University. She holds a PhD in Statistics from Northwestern University (2014). Her research integrates multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral datasets, and advanced statistical methods to study brain development, aging, neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s), psychiatric disorders, and wearable computing applications.
Education:
- PhD in Statistics, Northwestern University, 2014
Zhang’s lab develops machine learning, Bayesian inference, and high-dimensional data analysis frameworks for clinical trials, real-time treatment sequences (JITAI), and neuroimaging analysis. She specializes in sample size optimization, adaptive designs, and integration of data from wearable devices (e.g., fitness trackers) to address eating disorders and weight loss maintenance.
Publication trends highlight her focus on multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, DTI, fMRI, PET) for brain age prediction in aging and psychiatric disorders, clinical trial methodology, and mHealth applications. Her work spans Alzheimer’s disease biomarker identification, PTSD neuroimaging, and statistical approaches to wearable data analysis.
Grants and collaborations include NIH funding and partnerships with the WELL Center and Lowe Lab, applying data mining and statistical models to obesity treatment and dietary lapse prediction. Her lab recruits PhD students for projects involving large-scale datasets (ABCD, UK Biobank, ADNI).
