Dr. Kai Wang serves as the biostatistician for the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC) and is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Iowa. He has extensive expertise in statistical modeling and analysis of complex biomedical and environmental data, including high-dimensional omics data (genomics, sequencing, microarray, and imaging), clustered and correlated data (family studies, repeated measures, and longitudinal data), categorical outcomes, and time-to-event data.
Dr. Wang directs the Data Management and Analysis Core of the Iowa Superfund Research Program, which focuses on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other environmental pollutants. He is actively engaged in methodological research, with recent work emphasizing mediation analysis, Mendelian randomization, and spatial transcriptomics.
Dr. Wang has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications spanning toxicology, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, and bioinformatics. He also serves on the editorial boards of Briefings in Bioinformatics and PLOS Genetics.