Awards & Grants

  • 2022 UNC Chapel Hill Junior Faculty Development Award.
  • 2022 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
  • 2022 Discussion paper in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Applications & Case Studies).
  • 2022 Supervised paper won runner-up award in the paper competition sponsored by the ASA Statistical Methods in Imaging Section. Paper title "Optimized Diffusion Imaging for Brain Structural Connectome Analysis".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2018-2019 "Personalized Medical Image Analysis Based on Partial Differential Equations." UR-CTSI Pilot Grant, PI: Zhang, Qiu.
  • 2015 R.A. Bradley Award, for best Ph.D dissertation in the Department of Statistics, Florida State University.
  • 2015 CVPR 2015 Doctoral Consortium Travel Award.
  • 2015 Yongyuan and Anna Li Award for best graduate student presentations in the Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • 2015 Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award , Only two awardees selected from STEM areas per year, Florida State University
  • 2014 Boyd Harshbarger Student Travel Award, Summer Research Conference, Galveston, Texas.
  • 2012 Brumback Award for best student presentations at Florida Chapter ASA Meeting
  • 2011 Best First Year Student in Theoretical Statistics, Florida State University