Ping Wang

Research Assistant of Dr. Christina Kendziorski
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Medical School, UW-Madison

Graduate Student
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1245 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave.
(608) 262-7173
pwang@stat.wisc.edu

Research Interests:

Statistical Methods for high throughput studies.  In particular, I am interested in expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping studies, identifying moderate and interacting loci, and inferring modulatory networks.  Much of my work is done in collaboration with Dr. Alan Attie's lab, UW-Biochemistry.

Education:

2002, B.S. in Probability and Statistics, Peking University
2005, M.S. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2002-, Ph.D. candidate in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Publications:

  • Keller,M.P., Choi,Y.J., Wang,P., Davis,D.B., Rabaglia,M.E., Oler,A.T., Stapleton,D.S., Argmann,C., Schueler,K.L., Edwards,S., Steinberg,H.A., Neto,E.C., Klienhanz,R., Turner,S., Hellerstein,M.K., Schadt,E.E., Yandell,B.S., Kendziorski,C., and Attie,A.D. (2008) A Gene Expression Network Model of Type 2 Diabetes Links Cell Cycle Regulation in Islets with Diabetes Susceptibility. Genome Research, 18(5): 706-716. [html]
  • Ferrara,C.T., Wang,P., Neto,E.C., Stevens,R.D., Bain,J.R., Wenner,B.R., Ilkayeva,O.R., Keller,M.P., Blasiole,D.A., Kendziorski,C., Yandell,B.S., Newgard,C.B., Attie,A.D. (2008) Genetic Networks of Liver Metabolism Revealed by Integration of Metabolic and Transcriptional Profiling. PLoS Genet, 4(3): e1000034. [html]
  • Mellman,D.L., Gonzales,M.L., Song,C.H., Barlow,C.A., Wang,P., Kendziorski,C., Anderson,R.A. (2008) A PtdIns4, 5P2 Regulated Nuclear Poly(A) Polymerase Controls Expression of Select mRNAs. Nature, 451: 1013-1017 (21 February 2008). [html]
  • Chen,D., Wang,P., Levis,R.L., Daigh,C.A., Ho,C., Chen,X., Thomson,J.A. and Kendziorski,C. (2007) A microarray analysis of the emergence of embryonic definitive hematopoiesis. Experimental Hematology, 35(9): 1344-1357. [pdf]
  • Couto,F., Minn,A.H., Pise-Masison,C.A., Radonovich,M., Brady,J.N., Hanson,M., Fernandez,L.A., Wang,P., Kendziorski,C., and Shalev,A. (2007) Exenatide blocks JAK1-STAT1 in pancreatic beta cells. Metabolism Clinical and Experimental 56(7): 915-918. [pdf]
  • Newton,M., Wang,P., and Kendziorski,C. Hierarchical mixture model for expression profiles in Bayesian inference for gene expression and proteomics. Eds. Kim-Anh Do, Peter Mueller, and Marina Vanucci. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Minn,A.H., Pise-Masison,C.A., Radonovich,M., Brady,J.N., Wang,P., Kendziorski,C., and Shalev,A. (2005) Gene expression profiling in INS-1 cells overexpressing thioredoxin-interacting protein. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 336: 770-778. [pdf]
  • Wang, P. and Newton, M.A. Robustness of EBarrays to one form of dependence. Technical Report #1114, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In preparation.
  • Kendziorski, C., Wang, P. Flexible variance modeling with EBarrays. Technical Report #192, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In preparation.

Teaching Assistant Experience:

Stat 201 - Principles of Statistics with Ruojia Li Fall 2002
Stat 572 - Statistical Methods for Bioscience II with Ronald Gangnon, Spring 2003
Stat 571 - Statistical Methods for Bioscience I with Jun Zhu, Fall 2003

Courses taken:

Course Number Course Name Instructor Time
Stat 709,710 Mathematical Statistics I, II Jun Shao Fall 2002, Spring 2003
Stat 831 Theory of Probability Tom Kurtz Fall 2002
Stat 741 Survival Analysis Theory & Methods Jason Fine Spring 2003
Stat 992 Theory of Linear Models Greg Reinsel Spring 2003
Stat 641 Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials Richard J. Chappell Fall 2003
Stat 701 Applied Time Series Analysis, Forecasting & Control I Greg Reinsel Fall 2003
Stat 849 Theory & Application of Regression & Analysis of Variance I Douglas Bates Fall 2003
Stat 850 Theory & Application of Regression & Analysis of Variance II Murray Clayton Spring 2004
Stat 732 Large Sample Theory of Statistical Inference Michael R. Kosorok Spring 2004
Stat 992 Statistical Phylogenetics Bret Larget Spring 2004
Stat 775 Introduction to Bayesian Decision & Control Kam-Wah Tsui Fall 2004
Stat 998 Statistical Consulting Michael R. Kosorok Fall 2004
Stat 642 Statistical Methods for Epidemiology Thomas D. Cook Spring 2005
Stat 761 Decision Trees for Multivariate Analysis Wei-Yin Loh Spring 2005
Stat 992 Bootstrapping & Resampling Jun Shao Spring 2005
Genetics 466 General Genetics   Fall 2004
Genetics 915 Computation & Informatics in Biology & Medicine   Fall 2005
Actuarial science 303 Theory-Interest & Life Insurance Edward (Jed) W. Frees Spring 2004
Actuarial science 650 Actuarial Mathematics 1 Edward (Jed) W. Frees Fall 2004