Cheng Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Biology Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Email: czhang23@fredhutch.org
Github: @zcrabbit

About me

I am a Postdoc in the computational Biology program at Fred Hutchinson cancer research center, working with Erick Matsen. Before comming to Fred Hutch, I did my PhD in the Mathematics Department at University of California, Irvine. My supervisor was Prof. Hongkai Zhao. My co-supervisor was Prof. Babak Shahbaba. I received my Bachelor degree in applied mathematics and Master degree in computational mathematics from Peking University.

Research interest

My Research area is machine learning and statistics, with interests including graphical models, efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and variational inference methods for Bayesian models, deep Bayesian learning/Bayesian deep learning, and various applications using probablistic modeling.

Examples of subjects of interest including:

• Scalable MCMC methods for large-scale Bayesian inference.
• Graphical modeling of discrete and structured objects.
• Efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference algorithms.