George Tseng

George Tseng
Born	Chien-Cheng Tseng 1975 (age 49–50) Taoyuan, Taiwan
Education	National Taiwan University (BS, MS) Harvard University (DSc)
Known for	Meta-analysis of Omics data
Awards	Silver medal prize International Mathematical Olympiad (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics Computational biology Machine learning Human genetics
Institutions	University of Pittsburgh
Thesis	Low-level Analysis, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning, and Related Issues in Microarray Analysis  (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Wing Hung Wong
Website	tsenglab.biostat.pitt.edu

George Chien-Cheng Tseng is a Taiwanese biostatistician. He is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also the vice chair for research in the departments of biostatistics, computational and systems biology, and human genetics at University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. ^[1]

Education

Tseng graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1997 and a Master of Science (M.S.) in mathematics in 1999. He then completed doctoral studies in the United States, earning his Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in biostatistics from Harvard University in 2003 under the supervision of Wing Hung Wong. ^[1]

Research

Tseng is leading a research group of Bioinformatics and Statistical learning at University of Pittsburgh. His group focuses on developing Meta-analysis and Machine learning tools to analyze Omics data, which uses resampling methods and Bayesian statistics extensively. Tseng has developed Tight Clustering, ^[2] a method for cluster genomics data with scattered genes, and Adaptively Weighted Fisher's method, ^[3] a method for Meta-analysis of studywise p-values with both consensus and differential results.

Awards and honours

Tseng has been awarded a silver medal prize in International Mathematical Olympiad in 1993. ^[4] He has been awarded Pittsburgh Statistician of the Year in 2017 by Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Statistics Association. ^[5] He became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017. ^[6] He is selected as one of the recipients of the Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring at University of Pittsburgh in 2019. ^[7]

Personal life

In 1995, Tseng was Baptized as a Christian in Taipei.^{[ citation needed ]} He is married and resides in Pittsburgh with six children. ^[8]

External links

• George Tseng publications indexed by Google Scholar

References

1. "Bio". University of Pittsburgh . Retrieved January 2, 2025.
2. Tseng, George C.; Wong, Wing H. (March 2005). "Tight Clustering: A Resampling-Based Approach for Identifying Stable and Tight Patterns in Data". Biometrics. 61 (1): 10–16. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.331.295 . doi:10.1111/j.0006-341X.2005.031032.x. PMID   15737073. S2CID   17023091.
3. Li, Jia; Tseng, George C. (2011). "An adaptively weighted statistic for detecting differential gene expression when combining multiple transcriptomic studies". Annals of Applied Statistics. 5 (2A): 994–1019. arXiv: 1108.3180 . Bibcode:2011arXiv1108.3180L. doi:10.1214/10-AOAS393. S2CID   88518588.
4. "IMO 1993 Taiwan Contestants". www.imo-official.org. IMO. Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
5. "Pittsburgh ASA". amstatpgh.org/. amstatpgh. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
6. "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
7. "Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
8. "Tseng About Me". pitt.edu/. Pitt. Archived from the original on 4 June 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.