- Assistant Professor
- Functional data, Omics data, Interdisciplinary applications
- Email: tian.wang@uri.edu
Education
2018 Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis Mathematics
2014 A.M. Washington University in St. Louis Statistics
2011 B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University Mathematics & Applied Mathematics
Selected Publications
Wang, T. & Ding, J. (2025). α-separability and adjustable combination of amplitude and phase model for functional data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 87(3), 746-771.
Wang, T., Bing, L, Xu, H., Miao, Y., Qian, M. & Wang, S. (2025). A reweighted random forest to predict health outcomes using human microbiome data. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 19(2), 926-942.
Mandell, J.‡, Wang, T.‡, Mathad, J.S., Shafiq, M., Naik, S., Alexander, M., Kulkarni, V., Desh- pande, P., Humphreys, M.S., Ma, B., Holm, J.B., Bhosale, R., Ghanem, K.G., Kinikar, A., Ravel, J., Gupta, A., Wang, S. & Shivakoti, R. (2026). Impact of maternal HIV infection on the gut mi- crobiome and metabolome of mothers and infants: the PRACHITi cohort in Pune, India. Nature Communications, 17(1), 3097. (‡ co-first authors)
Teaching:
STA 412 Statistical Methods in Research II (Fall 2026)
STA 592 - 0003 Survival Analysis (Fall 2026)
Previous Appointments:
2018 - 2026 Postdoc & Staff Associate Columbia University Biostatistics
