Dr. Jiang’s primary research interests lie in statistical modeling, method development and data analysis in genetics and genomics.
Dr. Jiang’s primary research interests lie in statistical modeling, method development and data analysis in genetics and genomics.
Dr. Jiang has a primary appointment in Biostatistics and a joint appointment in Genetics. After receiving his BS in Computational Biology from Cornell University and his MA in Statistics from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Jiang completed his PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania.
His current research is focused on developing statistical methods and computational algorithms to better utilize and analyze different types of next-generation sequencing data under various setting, with application to data from large-scale cohort studies of human health and disease.
The Department of Genetics is pleased to welcome Dr. Jiang. He can be found in 4115D McGavern-Greenberg Hall and at yuchaoj@email.unc.edu.