Bio:

Zhenke Wu’s research involves the development of statistical methods that inform health decisions made by individuals. He is particularly interested in scalable Bayesian methods that integrate multiple sources of evidence, with a focus on hierarchical latent variable modeling. He also works on sequential decision making by developing new statistical tools for reinforcement learning and micro-randomized trials. He has developed methods to estimate the etiology of childhood pneumonia, cause-of-death distributions using verbal autopsy, autoantibody signatures for subsetting autoimmune disease patients, and to estimate time-varying causal effects of mobile prompts upon lagged physical, mental and behavioral health outcomes.

Zhenke has developed original methods and software that are now used by investigators from research institutes such as US CDC and Johns Hopkins, as well as site investigators from developing countries, e.g., Kenya, South Africa, Gambia, Mali, Zambia, Thailand and Bangladesh.

Zhenke completed a BS in Math at Fudan University and a PhD in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University and then stayed at Hopkins for his postdoctoral training. Zhenke is currently an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a faculty affiliate in Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). Zhenke serves as an Associate Editor for Annals of Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Journal of Royal Statistical Society (Series C) and a Statistical Consultant and Reviewer for New England Journal of Medicine - Artificial Intelligence (NEJM-AI).

When not thinking about Statistics, you can often find me playing basketball, running, rock climbing, hiking, downhill skiing, or doing short-distance triathlon.

Contact:

Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
1415 Washington Heights
4626 SPH-I (within Suite 4600)
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office Phone: +1-734-764-7067

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7. Pediatric urinary tract infections caused by poultry-associated Escherichia coli. Maliha Aziz, Gregg Davis, Dan Park, Azza Idris, Sanjeev Sariya, Yashan Wang, Sara Zerbonne, Lora Nordstrom, Brett Weaver, Sally Statham, Timothy Johnson, Joseph Campos, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Keith Crandall, Zhenke Wu, Cindy Liu, Roberta DeBiasi, Lance Price (2024) ► Microbiology Spectrum [doi]

13. Etiology of acute lower respiratory illness hospitalizations among infants in four countries. John Kubale*, Stephanie Kujawski*, Irena Chen, Zhenke Wu, Ilham Abu Khader, Iris Hasibra, Brett Whitaker, Lionel Gresh, Artan Simaku, Eric A.F. Simões, Mahmoud Al-Gazo, Shannon Rogers, Susan I. Gerber, Angel Balmaseda, Veronica L. Tallo, Tareq M. Al-Sanouri, Rachael Porter, Silvia Bino, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Meredith McMorrow, Danielle Hunt, Mark Thompson, Holly M. Biggs, Aubree Gordon (2023) ► Open Forum Infectious Diseases. [doi]