Gefei Wang

Gefei Wang

Postdoctoral Associate

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I am currently a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale University, advised by Prof. Hongyu Zhao. I completed my Ph.D. at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Can Yang and Prof. Yang Wang.

My research interests include the development of machine learning and deep learning methdologies with applications in multi-omics data analysis.

💻 Professional Experience

  • 2023.10 - Now, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University.

🎓 Education

  • 2019.09 - 2023.08, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
  • 2015.09 - 2019.06, B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025.09, STATGEN 2025 Travel Award.
  • 2023.05, HKPFS Extra Funding Award for Outstanding Academic and Research Performance, School of Science, HKUST.
  • 2022.05 and 2023.05, HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award, HKUST.
  • 2022.05, Din-Yu Hsieh Teaching Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST.
  • 2022.05, Epsilon Fund Award, Department of Mathematics, HKUST.
  • 2019.11, HKUST Excellent Research Award, HKUST.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.08, Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee.
  • 2019.05, Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Normal University and Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
  • 2018.12, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
  • 2016.12, 2017.12 and 2018.12, First-class Scholarship, Beijing Normal University.

📚 Academic Service

Reviewer for Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Annals of Applied Statistics, PLOS Computational Biology, Human Genomics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis and BMC Genomics.

✉️ Contact

  • Email: gefei.wang@yale.edu
  • Address: 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511