Zhexuan Yang

Assistant Teaching Professor
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Zhexuan
Yang
He/Him/His
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department Affiliations
Interests
Bayesian Statistics
Functional Data Analysis
Longitudinal Analysis
Survival Analysis
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Biography

Zhexuan Yang is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State. 

Yang received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Science (concentration in Statistics) from Northern Illinois University in 2025. 

Yang's research focuses on Bayesian functional data analysis, longitudinal analysis, and survival analysis. Yang is also interested with the application of genetic research such as DNA Methylation. 

 

Teaching

  • STAT/MATH 414 Introduction to Probability Theory
  • STAT/MATH 416 Stochastic Modeling

 

Publication

Luan, F., Ryu, D., Yang, Z., Bilgili, D. (2026). Bayesian Estimation for alpha-Mixture Survival Models. Mathematics, 14(10): 1772

Pre-print

Yang, Z., Ryu, D., Luan, F. (2026). mmcmcBayes: An R Package Implementing a Multistage MCMC Framework for Detecting the Differentially Methylated Regions.

 

Statistical Software

mmcmcBayes: A R package that implements a multistage MCMC Bayesian framework for detecting differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in epigenetic data. The Comprehensive R Archive Network R Project, 2025 to now. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mmcmcBayes