Ziheng Yang

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Ziheng Yang FRS (Chinese: 杨子恒; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist, and R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics,[1] at University College London, and Professor since 2001.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.[2] He was awarded the 2010 Frink Medal.[3]


Life

Yang graduated from Gansu Agricultural University with a BSc in 1984, and from Beijing Agricultural University with a Msc in 1987, and PhD in 1992.[4]

He was co-organizer of the 2008 "Statistical and computational challenges in molecular phylogenetics and evolution" conference at the Royal Society.[5]

Since 2009, he has been a co-organizer of an annual workshop on Computational Molecular Evolution (CoME), which has been running in Sanger/Hinxton in odd years and in Hiraklion, Crete in even years. [6]

Works

  • Computational molecular evolution. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-856702-8. 

References

  1. "Professor Ziheng Yang FRS Appointed R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics", University College London, 4 October 2010, retrieved 18 May 2011
  2. 2.0 2.1 ‘YANG, Prof. Ziheng’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U151365, accessed 11 May 2011] (subscription required)
  3. Winners of the ZSL Frink Medal for British Zoologists
  4. https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=ZYANG48
  5. http://royalsociety.org/Statistical-and-computational-challenges-in-molecular-phylogenetics-and-evolution/
  6. http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/CoME/

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