Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang | |
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| Born | 1 November 1964 (age 60) Gansu, China |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Beijing Agricultural University |
| Known for | Models of DNA sequence evolution and methods of statistical inference in molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
| Awards | Darwin–Wallace Medal (2023) Frink Medal (2010) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009) SSB Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008) Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists (1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | molecular evolution molecular phylogenetics population genetics computational biology computational statistics Markov chain Monte Carlo |
| Institutions | University College London Beijing Agricultural University |
| Website | abacus |
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.