Yuchao Jiang

Dr. Yuchao Jiang is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics (primary) and the Department of Biology within the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M University. Before joining TAMU, he was Assistant Professor in Biostatistics (primary) and Genetics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2017, subsequently becoming Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Jiang received his PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology in 2017 and his MS in Statistics in 2014, both from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked under the guidance of Dr. Nancy R. Zhang. He currently serves on the Statistical Review Board for the American Society for Nutrition and holds the position of co-director for the Center for Statistics Bioinformatics at TAMU. He is also a standing member of the Cancer and Hematologic Disorders (CHD) study section at the National Institute of Health.

The Jiang Lab’s primary research interests lie in statistical modeling and method development in genetics and genomics, with application to data from large-scale cohort studies of human health and disease. They collaborate with biologists and clinicians to address statistical and computational challenges presented by new cutting-edge technologies and provide data-driven statistical methods to biomedical researchers for better data analysis and experimental design. Their particular focus is on profiling structural variants, assessing intratumor heterogeneity, interrogating transcriptional regulation, detecting circadian rhythmicity, and deciphering cellular heterogeneity by single-cell omics approaches.