Ziwei (Alice) Tian

Research

Hi, I’m Ziwei Tian, a Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics at the Colorado School of Public Health . My research combines statistical methodology , machine learning , and computational biology to study complex biological systems.

I work with Dr. Debashis Ghosh on statistical methods for spatial omics data and with Dr. Chuangqi Wang on computational immunology. I’m particularly interested in understanding how cells are organized within tissues and how immune responses evolve over time, using methods that account for the spatial and temporal structure of biological data.

Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned an M.S. in Biostatistics in 2024 and bachelor’s degrees in Life Science Informatics and Statistics in 2022 from the University of Michigan . My background in statistics and the life sciences continues to shape my approach to interdisciplinary research.

Selected Publications

Multi-Omic Spectral Clustering with the Flag Mean

C. M. Carpenter, Ziwei Tian, J. K. Harris, M. Kirby, T. Lyons, C. Peterson, B. D. Wagner, D. Ghosh

Bioinformatics Advances 2026 paper

BCG vaccination induces antibacterial effector functions among Vδ1/3 T cells that are associated with protection against tuberculosis

M. D. Maerz, M. S. Makatsa, A. N. Bucsan, M. S. Sutton, E. Bishop, Ziwei Tian, E. D. Layton, M. Roederer, A. K. Shalek, R. A. Seder, et al.

Cell Reports Medicine 2026 paper