Fei Jiang, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Her research interest lies in machine learning methods, high dimensional models, functional data analysis and their applications in analyzing neurological, image, genetics data, and in designing adaptive randomization clinical trials. Her efforts yield high quality statistical and computational publications, which focus on addressing practical problems in the medical domain. In addition, she has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on the foundations of statistics and their applications in medical diagnosis, medical decision making, classification, prognostic prediction, and clinical trials. Furthermore, she has involved in establishing Master of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence program in the University of Hong Kong. As a researcher with solid statistical background, she is able to provide rigorous data driven tools to analyze wide range of biomedical data.

• High-dimensional inference for functional regression with an application to the Alzheimer's disease magnetoencephalography study.
  Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 2025 Jin H, Jiang F
• Predictors of pain and cartilage damage in patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis: stair descent knee kinematics and kinetics.
  BMJ open 2025 Hammond E, Johnson J, Haley T, Lee J, Bucknor MD, Akkaya Z, Kreutzinger V, Jiang F, Pedoia V, Majumdar S, Souza RB
• Cumulative caffeine exposure predicts neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature infants.
  Pediatric research 2025 Ostrem BEL, Odell E, Grelli KN, Kramer K, Chan N, Jiang F, Xu D, Barkovich AJ, Barkovich MJ, Ferriero DM, Gano D
• Author Correction: Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.
  Nature communications 2025 Barrios J, Porter E, Capaldi DPI, Upadhaya T, Chen WC, Perks JR, Apte A, Aristophanous M, LoCastro E, Hsu D, Stone PH, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Valdes G, Jiang F, Maddalena M, Ballangrud A, Prezelski K, …
• Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.
  Nature communications 2025 Barrios J, Porter E, Capaldi DPI, Upadhaya T, Chen WC, Perks JR, Apte A, Aristophanous M, LoCastro E, Hsu D, Stone PH, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Valdes G, Jiang F, Maddalena M, Ballangrud A, Prezelski K, …
• Pre- or post-chemotherapy: effect on PSMA uptake.
  EJNMMI research 2025 Yadav S, Tuchayi AM, Moradpour M, Jiang F, Juarez R, de Kouchkovsky I, Flavell RR, Aggarwal RR, Hope TA
• Added Value of Whole-Body Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Patients Undergoing Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2025 Hong CW, Behr SC, Jiang F, Wang Y, Houshmand S, Hope TA
• Foundations of a knee joint digital twin from qMRI biomarkers for osteoarthritis and knee replacement.
  NPJ digital medicine 2025 Hoyer G, Gao KT, Gassert FG, Luitjens J, Jiang F, Majumdar S, Pedoia V
• A semantic strength and neural correlates in developmental dyslexia.
  Frontiers in psychology 2025 Lukic S, Jiang F, Mandelli ML, Qi T, Inkelis SM, Rosenthal E, Miller Z, Wellman E, Bunge SA, Gorno-Tempini ML, Pereira CW
• Relationships Between the Infrapatellar Fat Pad and Patellofemoral Joint Osteoarthritis Differ With Body Mass Index and Sex.
  Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2025 Wagner JG, Chen L, Jiang F, Nedley E, Akkaya Z, Ngarmsrikan C, Link TM, Majumdar S, Collins KH, Souza RB
• Heterogeneous Functional Regression for Subgroup Analysis.
  Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America 2024 Zhou Y, Jiang F
• Association of cartilage T1ρ and T2 relaxation time measurement with hip osteoarthritis progression: A 5-year longitudinal study using voxel-based relaxometry and Z-score normalization.
  Osteoarthritis and cartilage open 2024 Thahakoya R, Roach KE, Han M, Bhattacharjee R, Jiang F, Luitjens J, Bahroos E, Pedoia V, Souza RB, Majumdar S
• Causal effect estimation in survival analysis with high dimensional confounders.
  Biometrics 2024 Jiang F, Zhao G, Rodriguez-Monguio R, Ma Y
• Impact of Vietnam-era G.I. Bill eligibility on later-life blood pressure distribution: evidence from the Vietnam draft lottery natural experiment.
  American journal of epidemiology 2024 Khadka A, Pacca L, Glymour MM, Bibbins-Domingo K, White JS, Basu S, Jiang F, Vable AM
• The relationships between patellofemoral bone remodeling, cartilage composition, and vertical loading rate: PET/MRI in isolated patellofemoral osteoarthritis.
  Osteoarthritis and cartilage 2024 Bhattacharjee R, Hammond E, Chotigar N, Akkaya Z, Jiang F, Bahroos E, Han M, Behr S, Bucknor MD, Souza RB, Pedoia V, Majumdar S
• Impact of Posttreatment SPECT/CT on Patient Management During 177Lu-PSMA-617 Radiopharmaceutical Therapy.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024 Yadav S, Lowery B, Tuchayi AM, Jiang F, Saelee R, Aggarwal RR, Juarez R, Flavell RR, Hope TA
• Quantile regressions as a tool to evaluate how an exposure shifts and reshapes the outcome distribution: A primer for epidemiologists.
  American journal of epidemiology 2024 Khadka A, Hebert JL, Glymour MM, Jiang F, Irish A, Duchowny KA, Vable AM
• Assessing Response to PSMA Radiopharmaceutical Therapies with Single SPECT Imaging at 24 Hours After Injection.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024 Yadav S, Jiang F, Kurkowska S, Saelee R, Morley A, Feng F, Aggarwal R, Lawhn-Heath C, Uribe C, Hope TA
• Comparison of 18F-DCFPyL and 68Ga-PSMA-11 for 177Lu-PSMA-617 therapy patient selection.
  Frontiers in oncology 2024 Yadav S, Kim ST, Tuchayi AM, Jiang F, Morley A, Saelee R, Wang Y, Juarez R, Lawnh-Heath C, Koshkin VS, Hope TA
• 68Ga-FAP-2286 PET of Solid Tumors: Biodistribution, Dosimetry, and Comparison with 18F-FDG.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024 Kline B, Yadav S, Seo Y, Ippisch RC, Castillo J, Aggarwal RR, Kelley RK, Behr SC, Flavell RR, Lawhn-Heath C, Melisko M, Rugo HS, Wang V, Yom SS, Ha P, Jiang F, Hope TA
• Livestream, group movement program for people living with cognitive impairment and care partners: A randomized clinical trial.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2024 Barnes DE, Jiang F, Benjamin C, Lee JA, Sudore RL, Mehling WE, Chesney MA, Chao LL, Nicosia FM
• Real-World Experience with 177Lu-PSMA-617 Radioligand Therapy After Food and Drug Administration Approval.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2024 Moradi Tuchayi A, Yadav S, Jiang F, Kim ST, Saelee RK, Morley A, Juarez R, Lawhn-Heath C, Wang Y, de Kouchkovsky I, Hope TA
• Mortality and Timing of Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Two-Center Retrospective Pediatric Cohort Study.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2023 Vassar R, Mehta N, Epps L, Jiang F, Amorim E, Wietstock S
• Gender Bias in Letters of Recommendation: Relevance to Urology Match Outcomes and Pursuit of Fellowship Training/Academic Career.
  Urology 2023 Nosrat C, Martin-Tuite P, Jiang F, Broering J, Shindel AW
• Measurement of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Strain Using MR Deformable Image Registration: Accuracy and Relationship to Recent Aneurysm Progression.
  Investigative radiology 2023 Dong H, Leach JR, Kao E, Zhou A, Chitiboi T, Zhu C, Ballweber M, Jiang F, Lee YJ, Iannuzzi J, Gasper W, Saloner D, Hope MD, Mitsouras D
• Bayesian adaptive design for covariate-adaptive historical control information borrowing.
  Statistics in medicine 2023 Jin H, Kim MO, Scheffler A, Jiang F
• Effects of T1p Characteristics of Load-Bearing Hip Cartilage on Bilateral Knee Patellar Cartilage Subregions: Subjects With None to Moderate Radiographic Hip Osteoarthritis.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2023 Bhattacharjee R, Thahakoya R, Luitjens J, Han M, Roach KE, Jiang F, Souza RB, Pedoia V, Majumdar S
• Dynamic functional connectivity MEG features of Alzheimer's disease.
  NeuroImage 2023 Jin H, Ranasinghe KG, Prabhu P, Dale C, Gao Y, Kudo K, Vossel K, Raj A, Nagarajan SS, Jiang F
• Do Bone Scans Overstage Disease Compared with PSMA PET at Initial Staging? An International Multicenter Retrospective Study with Masked Independent Readers.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2023 Hope TA, Benz M, Jiang F, Thompson D, Barbato F, Juarez R, Hernandez Pampaloni M, Allen-Auerbach M, Gupta P, Fendler WP, Calais J
• Bayesian inference of a spectral graph model for brain oscillations.
  NeuroImage 2023 Jin H, Verma P, Jiang F, Nagarajan SS, Raj A
• Influence of menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use on MS symptom fluctuations: A pilot study.
  Multiple sclerosis and related disorders 2023 Taylor H, Alhasan S, Saleem M, Poole S, Jiang F, Longbrake EE, Bove R
• On high-dimensional Poisson models with measurement error: Hypothesis testing for nonlinear nonconvex optimization.
  Annals of statistics 2023 Jiang F, Zhou Y, Liu J, Ma Y
• Bayesian Inference of a Spectral Graph Model for Brain Oscillations.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Jin H, Verma P, Jiang F, Nagarajan S, Raj A
• Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms as a Potential Marker for Disease Progression.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2023 Zhou A, Leach JR, Zhu C, Dong H, Jiang F, Lee YJ, Iannuzzi J, Gasper W, Saloner D, Hope MD, Mitsouras D
• A Retrospective Propensity-Matched Analysis of Functional Outcomes for Carotid Puncture for Endovascular Thrombectomy.
  Stroke (Hoboken, N.J.) 2022 Yu AT, Knox J, Jiang F, Kim AS, Cooke D
• Matrix Completion with Covariate Information and Informative Missingness. Jin, H. (student), Ma, Y., Jiang, F.*
  Matrix Completion with Covariate Information and Informative Missingness. Jin, H. (student), Ma, Y., Jiang, F.* 2022
• Bilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation ameliorated sleep disorder and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction in subjects with major depression.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2022 Chen X, Jiang F, Yang Q, Zhang P, Zhu H, Liu C, Zhang T, Li W, Xu J, Shen H
• High activity and high functional connectivity are mutually exclusive in resting state zebrafish and human brains.
  BMC biology 2022 Zarei M, Xie D, Jiang F, Bagirov A, Huang B, Raj A, Nagarajan S, Guo S
• Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Change Point Detection in Multivariate Sequences, Jin, H. (student), Yin, G., Yuan, B., & Jiang, F
  Technometrics 2022 Jin, H. (student), Yin, G., Yuan, B., & Jiang, F.
• Poisson Regression with Error Corrupted High Dimensional Features, Jiang, F., & Ma, Y
  Statistica Sinica 2022 Jiang, F.*, & Ma, Y
• Robust Recommendation via Social Network Enhanced Matrix Completion, Wang, J., Shen, H., Jiang, F
  Statistica Sinica 2022 Wang, J. Shen, H. Jiang, F.
• Time-varying dynamic network model for dynamic resting state functional connectivity in fMRI and MEG imaging.
  NeuroImage 2022 Jiang F, Jin H, Gao Y, Xie X, Cummings J, Raj A, Nagarajan S
• The effect of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors on organ-specific ace2 expression in zebrafish and its implications for COVID-19.
  Scientific reports 2021 Kim GJ, Melgoza A, Jiang F, Guo S
• Higher Levels of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Are Associated With Higher Levels of Glutamate in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Depressed Adolescents.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2021 Ho TC, Teresi GI, Segarra JR, Ojha A, Walker JC, Gu M, Spielman DM, Sacchet MD, Jiang F, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Maecker H, Gotlib IH
• Understanding and Utilizing the Linearity Condition in Dimension Reduction, Ma, Y. and Jiang, F
  Statistica Sinica 2020 Ma, Y. and Jiang, F.
• A Functional Single Index Model, Jiang, F., Baek, S., Cao, J., Ma, Y
  Statistica Sinica 2020 Jiang, F., Baek, S., Cao, J., Ma, Y.
• Robust Alternatives to ANCOVA for Estimating the Treatment Effect via a Randomized Comparative Study, Jiang, F., Tian, L, Fu, H., Hasegawa, T, and Wei, L. J
  Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2019 Jiang, F., Tian, L, Fu, H., Hasegawa, T, and Wei, L. J.
• Sufficient Direction Factor Model and its Application for eQTL Discovery, Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Wei, Y
  Biometrika 2019 Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Wei, Y.
• Functional Censored Quantile Regression with Application to the BOSS data Analysis, Jiang, F., Chen, Q., Yin, G., Shen, H
  Journal of American Statistical Association 2019 Jiang, F., Chen, Q., Yin, G., Shen, H.
• Bayesian Multiple Change Point Detection with Non- local Priors
  Neural Information Processing Systems. Long version in Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Jiang, F., Yin, G., and Dominici, F. 2018 Jiang, F., Yin, G., and Dominici, F.
• Moving Beyond the Conventional Stratified Analysis to Estimate an Overall Treatment Efficacy with the Data from a Comparative Randomized Clinical Study, Tian, L., Jiang, F., Hasegawa, T., Uno, H., and Wei, L. J
  Statistics in Medicine 2018 Tian, L., Jiang, F., Hasegawa, T., Uno, H., and Wei, L. J.
• Kernel-Based Adaptive Randomization Toward Balance in Continuous and Discrete Covariates, Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Yin, G
  Statistica Sinica 2018 Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Yin, G.
• STK11/LKB1 Mutations and PD-1 Inhibitor Resistance in KRAS-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma.
  Cancer discovery 2018 Skoulidis F, Goldberg ME, Greenawalt DM, Hellmann MD, Awad MM, Gainor JF, Schrock AB, Hartmaier RJ, Trabucco SE, Gay L, Ali SM, Elvin JA, Singal G, Ross JS, Fabrizio D, Szabo PM, Chang H, Sasson A, …
• Sinew acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized sham-controlled trial.
  BMC complementary and alternative medicine 2018 Au KY, Chen H, Lam WC, Chong CO, Lau A, Vardhanabhuti V, Mak KC, Jiang F, Lam WY, Wu FM, Chan HN, Ng YW, Ng BF, Ziea ET, Lao L
• Interpreting the Treatment Effect of Trastuzumab for a Duration of 9-weeks vs 1-Year for HER2Positive Breast Cancer, Zack, M. Jiang, F., and Wei, L. J
  Journal of the American Medical Association, Letter. 2018 Zack, M. Jiang, F., and Wei, L. J.
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare: past, present and future, Jiang, F., Jiang, Y., Zhi, H., Dong, Y., Li, H., Ma, S., Wang, Y., Dong, Q., Shen, H., & Wang, Y
  Stroke and vascular neurology 2017 Jiang, F., Jiang, Y., Zhi, H., Dong, Y., Li, H., Ma, S., Wang, Y., Dong, Q., Shen, H., & Wang, Y.
• A Semi-parametric Transformation Frailty Model for Semi-competing Risks Survival Data, Jiang, F. and Haneuse, S
  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 2017 Jiang, F. and Haneuse, S.
• A Semiparametric Method for Survival Analysis, with Application to an AIDS Clinical Trial Study, Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Lee, J
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C 2016 Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Lee, J.
• Fused Kernel-Spline Smoothing for Repeatedly Measured Outcomes in a Generalized Partially Linear Model with Functional Single Index, Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Wang, Y
  Annals of Statistics 2015 Jiang, F., Ma, Y., and Wang, Y
• A Bayesian Decision-theoretic Sequential-Response Adaptive Randomization Design, Jiang, F., Lee, J., and Mueller, P
  Statistics in Medicine 2013 Jiang, F., Lee, J., and Mueller, P.