{"id":14073,"date":"2024-08-19T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2024-08-19T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:49:45","slug":"department-of-genetics-welcomes-dr-daiwei-david-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/department-of-genetics-welcomes-dr-daiwei-david-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Genetics Welcomes Dr. Daiwei (David) Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14074\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Daiwei (David) Zhang\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2024\/08\/HeadshotDZ-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Daiwei (David) Zhang, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Welcome to Daiwei (David) Zhang, PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zhang has been appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Biostatistics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics.\u00a0 Following completion of his MS (Biostatistics) and PhD (Biostatistics and Scientific Computing) at the University of Michigan, Dr. Zhang continued his training as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 His research focuses on the development of novel AI frameworks to analyze high-dimensional, multi-modal, multi-scale data, especially those originating from spatial omics, computational pathology, and medical imaging. 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