Zhi Wei
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
GITC 4400, University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102
Email: zhiwei AT njit.edu, Phone: (973) 642-4497  Fax: (973) 596-5777

Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2008.
M.S. Computer Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2004.
B.S. Computer Science, Wuhan University.

Teaching:
BNFO615 Data Analysis in Bioinformatics: Fall 08, 09, 10, Fall 11
CS698 Machine Learning: Spring 2011
CS698 Selected Topics in High Dimensional Data Analysis: Spring 2010
CS103 Introduction to Computer Science, Spring 2009

Research Interests:
    Bioinformatics, Computational Genetics, Systems Biology and Cancer genomics, Statistical/Machine Learning

Publications
  21. Wang W, Wei Z, Tak-Wah Lam, and Wang J, Next generation sequencing has lower sequence coverage and poorer SNP-detection capability in the regulatory regions, Scientific Reports, 2011, 1(55).
  20. Lyon GJ, Jiang T, Van Wijk R, Wang W, Bodily P, Xing J, Tian L, Robison R, Clement M, Yang L, Zhang P, Liu Y, Moore B, Glessner J, Elia J, Reimherr F, van Solinge W, Yandell M, Hakonarson H, Wang J, Johnson WE, Wei Z, and Wang K. Exome Sequencing and Unrelated Findings in the Context of Complex Disease Research: Ethical and Clinical Implications. Discovery Medicine, 2011 12(62).
  19. Wei Z, Wang W, Hu P, Lyon GJ, and Hakonarson H, SNVer: a statistical tool for variant calling in analysis of pooled or individual next-generation sequencing data, Nucleic Acids Research, 2011, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr599. Software SNVer
  18. Roshan U, Chikkagoudar S, Wei Z, Wang K, and Hakonarson H, Ranking Causal SNPs and Associated Regions in Genome Wide Association Studies by the Support Vector Machine and Random Forest, Nucleic Acids Research, 2011 39(9):e62.
  17. Sun W and Wei Z, Multiple Testing for Pattern Identification, with Applications to Microarray Time Course Experiments, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2011 106(493):73–88, .
  16. Wang W, Wei Z, and Sun W, Simultaneous Set-Wise Testing Under Dependence, with Applications to Genome-Wide Association Studies, Statistics and Its Interface, 2010 3(4):501-512.
  15. Wei Z, Hidden Markov Models for Controlling False Discovery Rate in Genome-Wide Association Analysis, Next generation microarray bioinformatics, Humana Press and Springer, edited by Wang J., Tan A. and Tian T. 
  14. Li C, Wei Z, and Li H, Network-based Empirical Bayes Methods for Linear Models with Applications to Genomic Data, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2010 20(2):209-222.
  13. Li H, Wei Z and Maris J, A Hidden Markov Random Field Model for Genome-wide Association Studies, Biostatistics, 2010, 11:139-150.
  12. Hu P*, Wei Z*, Wang Z, Paterson AD, Beyene J and Scherer SW, Scoring of ChIP-seq experiments by modeling large-scale correlated tests, CAMDA 2009 (*Equally Contributed)
  11. Wei Z, Wang K, Qu H, Zhang H, Bradfield J, Kim C, Frackleton E, Hou C, Glessner JT, Chiavacci R, Stanley C, Monos D, Grant SFA, Polychronakos C and Hakonarson H, From Association to Disease Risk Prediction: an Optimistic View from Genome-wide Association Studies on Type 1 Diabetes, PLoS Genetics, 2009, 5(10): e1000678
  10. Wei Z, Sun W, Wang K and Hakonarson H, Multiple Testing in Genome-Wide Association Studies via Hidden Markov Models, Bioinformatics, 2009 25:2802-2808, Software PLIS. 
  09. Wei Z, Minturn J, Rappaport E, Brodeur G and Li H, Network-based Analysis of Multivariate Gene Expression Data, Statistical Methods for Microarray Data Analysis, Humana Press and Springer, edited by Yakovle A, Klebanov L and Gaile G 
  08. Braunstein A, Wei Z, Jensen ST and McAuliffe J, A Spatially Varying Two-sample Recombinant Coalescent, with Applications to HIV Escape Response, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS2008), 2009, 193-200
  07. Wei Z, Li M, Rebeck T and Li H, U-Statistics-based Tests for Multiple Genes in Genetic Association Studies, Annals of Human Genetics, 2008, 72: 821-833
  06. Wei Z and Li H, A Hidden Spatial-temporal Markov Random Field Model for Network-based Analysis of Time Course Gene Expression Data, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2008, 2: 408-429
  05. Wei Z and Li M, Genome-wide Association Analysis of Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Canadian Population, BMC Proceedings, 2007, 1(Suppl 1):S19
  04. Wei Z and Li H, A Markov Random Field Model for Network-based Analysis of Genomic Data, Bioinformatics, 2007 23:1537-1544
  03. Wei Z and Li H, Nonparametric Pathway-Based Regression Models for Analysis of Genomic Data, Biostatistics, 2007 8: 265-284
  02. Wei Z and Jensen ST, GAME: Detecting Cis-regulatory Elements Using a Genetic Algorithm, Bioinformatics, 2006 22:1577-1584, Software GAME.
  01. Yan Z, Wei Z and Kang L, Exploiting the Marginal Profits of Constraints with Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Techniques, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI 2003: 251-256

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