Faye H. Zheng

Department of Statistics Cell Phone: 615-***-****

Purdue University E-mail: abpa0z@r.postjobfree.com

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West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066

Objective To obtain a competitive internship as a research analyst within the areas of biostatistics, healthcare, or

clinical trials.

Interests Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Clinical Trials, Statistical Design, Computing

Education Ph.D. in Statistics (Current)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

M.S. in Applied Statistics (May 2012)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

B.A. in Mathematics, and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (June 2009)

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Experience Consultant: Statistical Consulting Service (SCS), Purdue University (June 2011 - August 2012)

Working with faculty, sta, and graduate students in the Purdue community to design and analyze

experiments, and assist with statistical software. Running the department s statistical help emails.

Teaching Assistant: Purdue University, Department of Statistics (Jan 2011 - May 2012)

Courses: STAT 301 Elementary Statistical Methods.

Teaching lab sections of SPSS; grading labs and exams; holding homework help sessions.

Teaching Assistant: Purdue University, Department of Statistics (Jan 2011 - May 2011)

Courses: STAT 113 Statistics and Society.

Teaching recitations; writing and grading quizzes, homework, and exams.

Research Assistant: Professor R.W. Doerge, Purdue University (Aug 2010 - Present)

Prepared presentations to the Doerge research group about genome-wide association studies and

nested association mapping in plants, and about newly-developed DNA-sequencing technologies.

Participating in weekly group discussions, keeping up to date on developments in statistical genetics.

Teaching Assistant: Northwestern University, Department of Mathematics (Sept 2008 - Dec 2008)

Course: MATH 220 Single-Variable Di erential Calculus.

Teaching recitations; grading quizzes, homework, and exams.

Research Assistant: Professor Larry V. Hedges, Northwestern University (June 2008 - Oct 2008)

Explored the theory behind meta-analysis; simulated the sampling distribution of test-statistics

in Matlab. Sorting and analysis of an educational dataset using hierarchical

modeling.

Posters Faye Zheng and R.W. Doerge. Genome-Wide Association Mapping inArabidopsis thaliana and Nested

Association Mapping in Maize: Two Complementary Approaches. Presented at the 23rd Annual Confer-

ence on Applied Statistics in Agriculture at Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS, May 1-3, 2011.

Faye Zheng, Lin-Yang Cheng, and R.W. Doerge. Third Generation Sequencing: Possibilities and Chal-

lenges of Single Molecule Technologies To be presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Applied Statis-

tics in Agriculture at Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS, April 29 - May 1, 2012.

Coursework Probability Theory Statistical Theory Multivariate Statistics Design of Experiments

Genetics Applied Regression Analysis Computational Statistics

Computer Skills SAS, SPSS, R, C, L TEX, Unix, MS O ce

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Organizations American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Citizenship China, Permanent Resident of USA

References Available upon request.

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