Yuping Zhang

Yuping Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD in Statistics from Peking University and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.

Her research develops statistical methods for high-dimensional genomic data, including single-cell transcriptomics, chromatin conformation analysis, and integrative pathway modeling. Dr. Zhang creates computational tools for extracting biological insights from complex omics datasets.

She has made significant contributions to trajectory inference for single-cell RNA-seq data, network-based analysis of multi-platform genomics, and statistical learning of chromosomal architecture. Her methodologies facilitate precision medicine applications in cancer genomics and developmental biology.

Dr. Zhang's lab creates open-source software for analyzing chromatin interactions, reconstructing cell differentiation trajectories, and detecting structural variations from sequencing data.