Xiang Ji

Dr. Ji’s research focuses on every component of statistical phylogenetics, from model development and advanced inference techniques to under-the-hood parallel computation libraries. His efforts have one central goal: solving biological questions. Collaborations constitute another big proportion of my research. An applied statistician should never work alone --- we advance biology by collaborating with experimental biologists, developing statistical methods tinkered towards specific biological hypothesis and providing software. He is collaborating with virologists interested in learning the evolution and diffusion patterns of various viruses through space and time and to test correlations of factors with key events in their evolution. He is also collaborating with cancer biologists using Drosophila model to study cancer evolution.