Yufeng Zhang

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Sugar Land, TX, **479

713-***-****

acg3rp@r.postjobfree.com; acg3rp@r.postjobfree.com

Education

The University of Texas School of Public Health Houston, TX

Ph.D Candidate, Biostatistics, 09/2008-present

Auburn University Auburn, AL

Master of Probability and Statistics, 08/2006-08/2008

Peking University Beijing, China

Bachelor of Science, Computational Mathematics, 09/1995-07/1999

Working Experience

The University of Texas School of Public Health Houston, TX

Graduate Teaching Assistant 08/2014-present and 05/2010/05-08/2010

● Grading homeworks/exams; answering students’ questions; preparing homework solutions and STATA codes for

the homework solutions.

OS and language: STATA

The Walt Disney Company Orlando, FL

Decision Science Intern 08/2013-01/2014

● Optimized rack room price/promotion room price for Walt Disney resorts

● Optimized promotion time window using generalized additive model

● ESPN C3 rating forecasting for Monday Night Football, NCAAF bowl games, NBA off-seasons.

OS and language: MS Windows, UNIX, SAS, R

Novartis Pharmaceutical East Hanover, NJ

Summer Intern 05/2013-08/2013

● Literature review on the statistical methodologies in clinical trials related to COPD/asthma drugs

● Model selection on COPD drugs efficacy studies

● A simulation study on baseline measurements and carryover effect on crossover design clinical trials

OS and language: MS Windows, SAS

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX

Graduate Research Assistant 01/2011-05/2013

● Importing, cleaning, merging dataset(SEER-Medicare, TCR-Medicare) to prepare for data analysis.

● Selecting, building, fitting and diagnosing statistical models, performing analysis (chi-square, logistic, survival,

longitudinal and so on)

● Generated tables/graphs/maps for presentation slides and research papers, wrote reports.

OS and language: MS Windows, UNIX, SAS, R, Excel VBA, ArcMap

The University of Texas Medical School Houston, TX

Graduate Assistant 11/2012-05/2013

● Assisting in the review and verification of datasets, statistical analysis plans, sample size calculations, tables,

listings and graphs to support clinical research activities

OS and language: MS Windows, SAS, R, Excel VBA

The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences Houston, TX

Graduate Research Assistant 01/2010-08/2012

● Writing/revising java codes on Apache Lucene library to implement distributional semantics study method on

electronic texts.

● Developing Java/SAS/R programs to perform proper statistical analysis/machine learning technique (SVM/logistic

regression/survival analysis and so on).

● Contributing ideas and opinions in research activities

OS and language: Linux, Java, SAS, R

Auburn University Auburn, AL

Teaching Assistant 08/2006-08/2008

● As an independent instructor (100% responsibility): College Algebra, Precalculus Algebra and Trigonometry,

Calculus with Business Applications II

● As a grader: Various undergraduate-level mathematics courses

EC-One China Inc. Beijing, China

Software Engineer 09/1999-12/2005

● Developing, upgrading, maintaining cFramework (a J2EE framework) and its components.

OS and language: MS Windows, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, Java

Eligibility To Work

U.S. permanent resident (green card holder)

Computer Skills

Statistical softwares: SAS, R, STATA

OOP languages: Java (J2EE), C#

Database: Oracle, MySQL

Other Softwares or Programming Languages: SQL, Excel VBA, ArcMap, HTML

OS: MS Windows, UNIX, Linux

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Mariana Chavez-MacGregor, Ning Zhang, Thomas A. Buchholz, Yufeng Zhang, Jiangong Niu, Linda S. Elting,

Benjamin Smith, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Sharon Hermes Giordano,. Trastuzumab-related cardiotoxicity among older

breast cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology 31.33 (2013): 4222-4228.

2. Barcenas CH, Zhang Y, Niu J, Zhang N, Buchholz TA, Hortobagyi GN, Elting LS, Smith B, Giordano SH,. Risk of

hospitalization by chemotherapy regimen in early stage breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2014: JCO.

2013.49. 3676.

3. Robert J. Amato, Amber Lea Flaherty, Yufeng Zhang, Fangqian Ouyang, Virginia Mohlere, Clinical prognostic

factors associated with outcome in patients with renal cell cancer with prior tyrosine kinase inhibitors or

immunotherapy treated with everolimus. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations (Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.

345-354). Elsevier.

4. Yufeng Zhang, Sahiti Myneni, Thomas Kannampallil, Nathan Cobb, Trevor Cohen, Translating Words to Deeds:

Using Collective Communication to Predict Individual Smoking Cessation (In preparation)

5. Yufeng Zhang, Hongjian Zhu, Group sequential monitoring on covariated-adaptive Efron’s biased coin designed

clinical trial (In preparation)

Abstracts

1. Mariana Chavez-Mac Gregor, Ning Zhang, Thomas A. Buchholz, Yufeng Zhang, Jiangong Niu, Linda S. Elting,

Vincent Valero, Sharon Hermes Giordano,.Cardiac monitoring during adjuvant trastuzumab-based chemotherapy

among older breast cancer patients. J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr 6630)

2. Anneliese Gonzalez, Rabih Said, Robert E Brown, Yufeng Zhang, Robert J. Amato, Differences of Protein

Expression of Renal Cell Carcinoma by Tumor Location and Treatment. J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr e15556)

3. Prasamsa Pandey, Youxin Xiong, Yufeng Zhang, Mika Stepankiw, Robert J. Amato Clinical prognostic factors

associated with outcome in renal cell cancer (RCC) patients treated with modified vaccinia ankara plus

tumor-associated antigen 5T4 (MVA-5T4). J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr e15545)

4. Carlos Hernando Barcenas, Ning Zhang, Jiangong Niu, Yufeng Zhang, Hui Zhao, Sharon Hermes Giordano

Off-label prescribing of chemotherapy among older cancer patients. J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl 31; abstr 130)

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