About Me

Hi, I’m Jasper Zhang, a Biostatistics Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto and University Health Network (UHN), under the supervision of Dr. Wei Xu. I also have the privilege to work as a Research Analyst at the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), with Dr. Petros Pechlivanoglou. Additionally, I’m a student member of the Health Data Working Group at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

My research spans areas like Cancer Genomics, Survival Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, and Deep Learning. My projects have been supported by the Cancer Digital Intelligence Spark Award (2025), Roche Canada Scholarship in AI (2024), and DLSPH Graduate Awards in Data Science (2023-2024) .

I am currently serving as Co-Chair for the Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) 2026, following my previous role on the Scientific Program Committee for CSSC 2025. I was the Biostatistics section editor (2022-2024) for the University of Toronto Journal of Public Health (UTJPH) and the co-president (2022-2023) of the Biostatistics Union of Graduate Students (BUGS).

I was fortunate to earn my MSc in Biostatistics from Toronto in 2021, where I was supervised by Dr. Wei Xu and Dr. Pingzhao Hu. Before that, I obtained my B.Math in Computer Science and Statistics from Waterloo in 2019. From 2018 to 2019, I worked with Dr. Depeng Jiang at Manitoba, a period during which my passion for health science research blossomed.

Beyond academics, music has always been a source of joy for me. I have been singing as a tenor with the University of Toronto Allegro Choir since 2019. Our most recent performance, the annual concert “Drifting Galaxies. Gathering Moments.”, took place in March 2025 at Knox College Chapel in Toronto. If you’re interested, it’s available for viewing on bilibili and YouTube.