Ziheng Yang

Ziheng Yang
Born1 November 1964 (1964-11) (age 60)
Gansu, China
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materBeijing Agricultural University
Known forModels of DNA sequence evolution and methods of statistical inference in molecular evolution and phylogenetics
AwardsDarwin–Wallace Medal (2023)
Frink Medal (2010)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009)

SSB Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008)

Fellow of the Royal Society (2006)
Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists (1995)
Scientific career
Fieldsmolecular evolution
molecular phylogenetics
population genetics
computational biology
computational statistics
Markov chain Monte Carlo
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Beijing Agricultural University
Websiteabacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk

Ziheng Yang FRS (Chinese: 杨子恒; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist. He holds the R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics at University College London, and is the Director of R.A. Fisher Centre for Computational Biology at UCL. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.