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Zhigang Li

Zhigang Li,

Associate Professor

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS
Business Phone: (352) 294-5915
Business Email: zhigang.li@ufl.edu
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About Zhigang Li

Dr. Zhigang Li is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Biostatistics at University of Florida. He joined the department as an associate professor in 2018 under the University preeminence initiative. His research interests include microbiome data analysis, mediation analysis, causal inference, high-dimensional data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal data and survival in palliative care research. Dr. Li has been PI of multiple NIH grants including his ongoing R01 project “Mediation analysis methods for modeling human microbiome mediating disease-leading causal pathways in children”. Dr. Li loves collaboration with colleagues. He has many years of experience on collaborating with epidemiologists, children’s health experts, environmental health scientists, pediatricians, palliative care researchers, cancer researchers, psychologists, physicians, engineers, neurologists, radiologists, etc.

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Accomplishments

  1. Outstanding Student Support Award

    Department of Biostatistics

  2. Outstanding Teaching Award

    Department of Biostatistics

  3. University preeminence hire

    University of Florida

  4. First class prize

    Chinese National Mathematical Olympiad

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

  1. PHC7979 – Advanced Research

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  2. PHC6020 – Clinical Trial Methods

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  3. PHC6905 – Independent Study

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  4. PHC7980 – Research for Doctoral Dissertation

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-6224-1833

Areas of Interest

  • Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • Causal inference
  • High-dimensional data analysis
  • Mediation analysis
  • Microbiome
  • Survival Analysis

Publications

Academic Articles

Presentations

  1. Joint modeling in presence of informative censoring on the retrospective time scale with application to palliative care research

    International / Invited. [Symposium]. ICSA, Nashville, TN

  2. Weighted Estimating Equation for microbiome analysis

    International / Invited. [Workshop]. the Fifth International Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Multi-outcome Data, Salzburg, Austria

  3. Joint modeling in presence of informative censoring

    National / Invited. [Speech]. ENAR, New Orleans, LA

  4. Joint modeling in presence of informative censoring

    National / Invited. [Speech]. 2025 Lifetime Data Science Conference, New York, NY

Grants

Education

  1. PhD in Biostatistics

    Columbia University

  2. Master in Statistics

    Auburn University

  3. MS in Probability Theory

    Nankai University

  4. BS in Mathematics

    Nankai University

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5915
Emails:
Business:
zhigang.li@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
2004 MOWRY RD FL 5
 GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Business Street:
2004 MOWRY RD FL 5
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610