Rate My Professor Yunwei Zhang

Yunwei Zhang is a Lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics at Murdoch University, having joined in October 2024. Her career trajectory includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Macquarie University from June 2023 to September 2024, where she remains an Honorary Lecturer; a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne from November 2022 to June 2023; Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney from January 2021 to March 2023; and Research Assistant at the Heart Research Institute, University of Sydney, from July 2020 to December 2022. Zhang's academic qualifications comprise a PhD in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney (April 2023), with a thesis titled 'Statistical methods for complex multi-modality kidney disease data' supervised by Jean Yang and Samuel Muller; a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of California, Davis (December 2018); a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Central China Normal University (July 2017); and transient undergraduate studies in Applied Mathematics at Georgia Southern University (May 2016).

Zhang's research focuses on survival analysis, model selection, personalized prediction models for allograft survival, and kidney transplant allocation systems, often applied to complex multi-modality kidney disease data. Key publications include 'A Kidney Transplant Support System for Patient-Clinician Shared Decision-Making' (Journal of Medical Systems, 2025); 'Robust variable selection methods with Cox model—a selective practical benchmark study' (Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024); 'SurvBenchmark: comprehensive benchmarking study of survival analysis methods using both omics data and clinical data' (GigaScience, 2022); 'simKAP: simulation framework for the kidney allocation process with decision making model' (Scientific Reports, 2023); and 'Endoplasmic reticulum protein 5 attenuates platelet endoplasmic reticulum stress and secretion in a mouse model' (Blood Advances, 2023). She has received major awards such as the Early Career Researcher Enabling Scheme Grant from Macquarie University (2024), Early Career Researcher Awards from the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (2023, 2022), and the Dean's International Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the University of Sydney (2019-2022). Zhang coordinates units including MAS 222 Probability and Statistical Inference at Murdoch University and has taught extensively in data science and statistics. She serves as a council member of the Statistical Society of Australia WA Branch and on various university committees.