Education
Yang graduated from Gansu Agricultural University with a Bachelor of Science in 1984, and from Beijing Agricultural University with a Msc in 1987, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1992.
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Ziheng Yang
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Career
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. Academic He was co-organizer of the 2008 "Statistical and computational challenges in molecular phylogenetics and evolution" conference at the Royal Society. Since 2009, he has been a co-organizer of an annual workshop on Computational Molecular Evolution (CoME), which has been running in Sanger/Hinxton in odd years and in Hiraklion, Crete in even years.
Yang was a Visiting Professor at Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo, 1997-1998), University of Tokyo (2007-2008), Institute of Zoology in Beijing (2010-2011), Peking University (2010), National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (2011), and Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ), Zurich (2011).
He subsequently served as the Changjiang Chair Professor at Sun Yat-sen University from 2008-2011.
Achievements
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He was awarded the Society for Systematic Biology President"s Award in 2008, and the 2010 Frink Meda In 2008, he was awarded the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar award, the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education (中华人民共和国教育部) of the People"s Republic of China.
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