Ying Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: ying.zhang@acadiau.ca
Bio:
Dr. Ying Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics and has been the Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre since coming to Acadia University in 2004. Prior to this, Ying was the manager of the Statistical Laboratory at Western University (2001-2004), and has been an active statistical consultant since 1999. She has worked together with a variety of organizations, including: the Society of Actuaries, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Brescia University College, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, the London Health Sciences Centre, and the Real Estate and Land Use Institute at San Diego State University. Recently Ying has participated in the policy and management studies for the Nova Scotia Department of Nature Resources, and the Nova Scotia Department of Health Wellness. Ying has extensive experiences with applied statistical methodology research and consulting, specializing in time series analysis, nonparametric statistics, experiment design and survey sampling. She has successfully produced numerous consulting project reports and some of her consulting work has been publishedin the top journals of applied statistics.