Ziheng Yang
| Ziheng Yang | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 November 1964 (age 53) Gansu, China |
| Nationality |
 UK
|
| Alma mater | Beijing Agricultural University |
| Known for | Models of DNA sequence evolution and methods of statistical inference in molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
| Awards |
Frink Medal (2010) |
| Website | abacus |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
molecular evolution molecular phylogenetics population genetics computational biology computational statistics Markov chain Monte Carlo |
| Institutions |
University College London Beijing Agricultural University |
Frink Medal (2010)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009)
Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008)
Fellow of the Royal Society(2006)
Ziheng Yang FRS (Chinese: 杨子恒; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist. He holds the R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics at University College London, and is the Director of R.A. Fisher Centre for Computational Biology at UCL. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.
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.
After the PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (1992-3), The Natural History Museum (London) (1993-4), Pennsylvania State University (1994-5), and University of California at Berkeley (1995-7), before taking up a faculty position in Department of Biology, University College London. He was a Lecturer (1997), Reader (2000), and then Professor (2001) in the same department. He was appointed to the R.A. Fisher Chair in Statistical Genetics in UCL in 2010.
Yang held a number of visiting appointments. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo, 1997-8), a Visiting Professor at University of Tokyo (2007-8), Institute of Zoology in Beijing (2010-1), Peking University (2010), National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (2011), and Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (2011). In 2008, he was awarded the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar award, by the Ministry of Education of China (中华人民共和国教育部). He subsequently served as the Changjiang Chair Professor at Sun Yat-sen University from 2008-2011. Most recently he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2017-8.
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