Hongmei Zhang is a Chinese-American biostatistician at the University of Memphis, where she is Bruns Endowed Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, director of the division, program coordinator for biostatistics, and affiliated professor in the departments of mathematical sciences and biology.
[2] Zhang has three master's degrees: one in electronic engineering, earned in 1997 from the Nanjing Institute of Technology, a second one in mathematics in 1999 from Truman State University, and a third one in statistics in 2001 from Iowa State University.
[1] Her dissertation, Probability Models for Design and Analysis of Genetic Data, was supervised by Hal Stern.
She moved to her present position at the University of Memphis in 2013, and was promoted to professor and given the Bruns Endowed Professorship in 2017.
[1] Zhang is the author of Analyzing High-Dimensional Gene Expression and DNA Methylation Data with R (CRC Press, 2020).