Zhaohui (Steve) Qin is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He is also an affiliated faculty member at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute.
Dr. Qin received his B.S. degree in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Michigan in 2000. After postdoctoral training in Dr. Liu Jun?s group at Harvard University, he joined the Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan in 2003. In 2010, he moved to his current position in Emory University.
Dr. Qin has 15 years of experience in statistical modeling and statistical computing with applications in statistical genetics and genomics. Dr. Qin has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers covering statistics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics and computational biology. His publication has been cited more than 13,000 times according to Google Scholar. Recently, his research is focused on developing Bayesian model-based methods to analyze data generated from applications of next-generation sequencing technologies such as ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, Hi-C, WGBS, ATAC-seq, Repli-Seq and resequencing. Dr. Qin also actively collaborates with biomedical scientists and clinicians on projects that utilize next-generation sequencing technologies to study cancer genomics.