Ming Zhang
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (Summa cum Laude). University of Goettingen, Germany
Areas of Expertise
- Big-data based infrastructure and software development, algorithm design
- Molecular epidemiology of human pathogens, especially HIV, influenza, and HCV
- Virus vaccine design
- Molecular immunology
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
- CDC ORISE Fellow
- CROI Young Investigator Award
- Charles C. Shepard Award nomination/CDC
- Keystone Symposium HIV Research Fellowship
- CNLS Postdoctoral Fellowship
- “Mathematics, Evolution and Development” advisory board, Max-Planck Institute of Computational Biology/Shanghai, etc.
- NIH and NSF review panelist
- ASPPH Fellow Review panelist
- UGA Career Development Recognition, etc.
- Editorial board: BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Ecology and Evolution, PLoS
- Guest Associate editor: Frontiers in Medicine
- Associate Editor: Frontiers in Virology issue Bioinformatic and Predictive Virology, etc.
Mentor of students research awards at various levels (department, college, UGA, and national/UGA)
Affiliations
- UGA Faculty of Infectious Disease
- UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute
- UGA IDEAS program
- UGA African Studies Institute
Course Instruction
- PhD Epidemiology program core course – Cohort Design and Analysis
- PhD Epidemiology program selective course – Molecular Epidemiology
- Undergraduate public health core course – Introduction to Epidemiology
