FACULTY PROFILE

Hongmei Zhang portrait

Hongmei Zhang, PhD, MS

EBE Division Director

Professor of Biostatistics

Phone 901.678.4707

Email hzhang6@memphis.edu

Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae

Office 224 A Robison Hall

Appointment By appointment only

 

Dr. Hongmei Zhang is the Bruns Endowed Professor. Her research focus is on statistical methodology development in variable selection, joint clustering, and Bayesian networks with application to phenotypic data and genetic and epigenetic data. She is the recipient of several NIH research grants for her collaborative work in cancer and allergic disease studies.

Research Interests

  • Variable selection
  • Clustering
  • Gaussian direct and undirected networks
  • Sampling plans

Research Funding

  • Clusters of Epigenetic Networks at Birth and Asthma Incidence in Children (PI)
    • Funding Source: NIH/NIAID
  • Surface exosome integrin profiling to predict organotropic metastasis of breast cancer (Co-I). PI: Huang, Hoang
    • Funding Source: NIH/NCI
  • Public Health Informatics, Data, Equity, Analytics, and Systems (PH-IDEAS) approach to strengthen Shelby County Health Department Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems (Co-I). PI: Taylor, Joshi
    • Funding Source: CDC

Publication Highlights

  • H Zhang*, J Duan*, L Han*, … Arshad, S. H. DNA methylation at birth and IgE trajectories from birth to adolescence, different patterns between White and Asian. Epigenomics, 2025, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501911.2025.2453412
  • A Mukhopadhyay, MH Mondol, M Rahman, …, H Zhang, AMN Titu. The direct and urinary electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on population blood pressure: A causal mediation analysis. Environment international. 2025 Jan 1;195:109208
  • X Mou, H Zhang, SH Arshad. Generalized Bayesian Kernel machine regression. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 2024 Dec 12: https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802241280784
  • X Huang, H Zhang. Detecting responsible nodes in differential Bayesian networks. Statistics in Medicine. June 03, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10125
  • C Wu, X Mou, H Zhang. Gbdmr: identifying differentially methylated CpG regions in the human genome via generalized beta regressions. BMC bioinformatics. 2024 Mar 5;25(1):97
  • S Carra, H Zhang, …, RJ Kurukulaaratchy. Adult Outcomes of Childhood Wheezing Phenotypes Are Associated with Early-Life Factors. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2024; 14(12):1171. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm14121171
(*denotes graduate and doctoral students supervised by Dr. Zhang)

Google Scholar

Other

Programs and Examples for Joint Clustering (Download files)
  • Readme file
  • DataSimulations.R
  • DetermineMDIC.R
  • JointClusteringSimuDataSeSp.R
Programs and example data sets for variable selection in semi-parametric models (Download Files)
  • Readme file
  • VarSelection.Linear.standard.R
  • VarSelection.Linear.MH.R.
  • VarSelection.Probit.R
  • Linear. Example3.txt
  • Probit.Example3.txt
Methods and programs for cell type heterogeneity assessment. Visit the website for codes, instructions, and example data sets. External website >