Chao Wang, Ph.D.

Chao Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care Statistic at Kingston University, London. He is an experienced statistician and have been doing research, especially in the field of medicine and health, using applied statistics throughout his academic career, including PhD at Loughborough University, various research and statistician positions previously held at Loughborough University, University of Oxford, and Queen Mary University of London. Throughout his career, he has gained excellent statistical expertise and has research interests in a wide range of topics, including Bayesian analysis, discrete response models, spatial analysis, multilevel and panel data analysis, feature / variable selection, time-series data analysis, structural equation models, missing data handling, and survival analysis. He is also interested in "machine learning" techniques such as artificial neural networks, and medical image analysis such as mammographic feature extraction. Chao's research has attracted over millions (£) of research funding from government or charities, such as UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). He also serves as a consultant for one of UK's major NHS Trusts. His papers have been widely published in academic journals such as Breast Cancer Research.

Title of Speech: Image Analysis for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction