Zheng's space
About Me
My name is Zheng Ni. You can call me Jason. (-_^)
I am currently a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University, advised by Prof. Lizhi Wang.
My research focuses on genomic selection and prediction and plant breeding. I am interested in machine learning and simulation algorithms.
I am proficient in Julia, Matlab, Python, and R.
Educations:
Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, Oklahoma State University (2023 - 2025)
Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University (2020 - 2023)
Master of Science in Statistics, Univerisity of Wisconsin-Madison (2018 - 2020)
Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Southeast University (2015 - 2019)
Experience:
Research Assistant at Oklahoma State Univerisity (Aug 2023 - Present)
Research Assistant at Iowa State Univerisity (Aug 2020 - Aug 2023)
Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin - Madison (Dec 2018 - May 2020)
Recent publications:
Yanhua Huang, Zheng Ni, Yanbin Chang and Lizhi Wang. (2023) "Hydroponic Lettuce in-situ Water Circulation Evaluation via Non-destructive Mass Measurement in Controlled Environment." In draft.
Yanhua Huang, Yanbin Chang, Zheng Ni and Lizhi Wang. (2023) "Factors Exploration on Lettuce Seed Germination with Hydrogel." Submitted to Frontiers in Plant Science.
Zheng Ni, Saba Moeinizade, Aaron Kusmec, Guiping Hu, Lizhi Wang, and Patrick S. Schnable. (2023) "New insights into trait introgression with the look-ahead intercrossing strategy." G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, jkad042, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad042.
Kunling Huang, Yuchang Wu, Junha Shin, Ye Zheng, Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani, Yupei Lin, Zheng Ni, Jiawen Chen, Jing You, Sunduz Keles, Daifeng Wang, Sushmita Roy, and Qiongshi Lu. (2021). "Transcriptome-wide transmission disequilibrium analysis identifies novel risk genes for autism spectrum disorder." PLoS Genetics, 17 (2), e1009309.
Jiawen Chen, Jing You, Zijie Zhao, Zheng Ni, Kunling Huang, Yuchang Wu, Jason M Fletcher, and Qiongshi Lu. (2020). "Gamete simulation improves polygenic transmission disequilibrium analysis." preprint available on bioRxiv.
Contact
201 Advanced Technology Research Center
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
zheng.ni@okstate.edu