Awards & Grants

Honors and Awards

• 2022Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC Chapel Hill
• 2022Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• 2022Discussion paper, Journal of the American Statistical Association (Applications & Case Studies)
• 2022Supervised paper “Optimized Diffusion Imaging for Brain Structural Connectome Analysis” won the runner-up award in the paper competition of the ASA Statistical Methods in Imaging Section
• 2015R. A. Bradley Award for best Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
• 2015CVPR 2015 Doctoral Consortium Travel Award
• 2015Yongyuan and Anna Li Award for best graduate student presentation, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
• 2015Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award, Florida State University (two awardees selected from STEM areas per year)
• 2014Boyd Harshbarger Student Travel Award, Summer Research Conference, Galveston, Texas
• 2012Brumback Award for best student presentation, Florida Chapter ASA Meeting
• 2011Best First-Year Student in Theoretical Statistics, Florida State University

Grants

• 2021–2026“Develop an ANS-based Personalized Cognitive Training for Mild Cognitive Impairment.” NIH/NIA R21/R33. PI: Lin, Zhang, Tapparello.
• 2020–2023“Advancing Methods for Structural Connectome Acquisition.” NIH/NIA R21. PI: Zhang, Lin, Risk.
• 2019–2020“Understanding Effects of Substance Use on Brain Structural Connectome and Cognition Development during Adolescence.” Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation, NY. PI: Zhang.
• 2018–2021“CRCNS: Geometry-based Brain Connectome Analysis.” NIH/NIMH R01. PI: Dunson, Zhang.
• 2018–2019“Supernormal Structural Connectomes: Lessons for Alzheimer’s Disease.” Roberta K. Courtman Revocable Trust. PI: Baran, Zhang.
• 2018–2019“Personalized Medical Image Analysis Based on Partial Differential Equations.” UR-CTSI Pilot Grant. PI: Zhang, Qiu.