Welcome
Selena Wang, PhD
selewang@iu.edu
Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science
HITS 3071
410 W. 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine. My primary research interest is to develop scalable statistical and computational approaches for high-dimensional biomedical data with a focus on network science, high dimensional data analysis, neuroimaging, data integration and statistical machine learning. I develop MRI analytic methods, Bayesian inference and latent space network models incorporating biological, psychological and medical information. I also have extensive experience in translational research, providing support on study design and analyses for studies investigating psychiatric outcomes, mental disorders, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, etc.
News:
(August, 2025) Dr. Krishnendu Chandra has joined our team as a postdoc in August 2025. Welcome!
(July, 2025) Our paper Neuroimaging connectivity analysis needs network science for brain-behavior linking has been accepted in Nature Methods. Congrats!
(July, 2025) Connor Cornelison presented the poster Sex differences in structural connectivity-based AD pathology in the Indiana Memory and Aging cohort at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
(July, 2025) Theyanesh Jayaprakash presented the poster Deep Learning Framework for Characterizing Tau-PET Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Self-supervised Approach at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
(June, 2025) Xinzhi's first-author manuscript Cost efficiency of fMRI studies using resting-state vs task-based functional connectivity has been published in Human Brain Mapping. Congrats!
(June, 2025) Congratulations to Connor Cornelison, who has been offered the competitive INGEN4DS fellowship! Great job!
(May, 2025) Dr. Hongshan Liu has joined our team as a postdoc in May 2025. Welcome!
(May, 2025) Huairui Wang, Ash Sharma, and Anastasija Naumoski have joined our team as graduate research interns beginning summer 2025. Welcome!
(May, 2025) Congratulations to Xinzhi Zhang who has accepted an offer from NYU to start her PhD! Well deserved!
(April, 2025) Theyanesh Jayaprakash has been awarded the 2025 AAIC conference fellowship award! Congrats!
(March, 2025) A new network science method review paper has been published in Psychological Methods.
(February, 2025) Our team has been offered funding from the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative to support Artificial Intelligence technology development for AD.
(February, 2025) Dr. Wang was selected as a 2025 William H. Gates Sr. Fellow.
(January, 2025) Connor Cornelison, Theyanesh Jayaprakash, and Plamena each submitted a first-author abstract to AAIC 2025. Congrats!
(January, 2025) Visiting student Yumeng Chen has joined our lab. Welcome!
(January, 2025) Dr. Wang was selected as a 2025 REC scholar.
(January, 2025) We received internal IU funding to support methodology development from the REC scholar program via the IADRC.
(January, 2025) A new network science method review paper was accepted at Psychological Methods.
(November, 2024) A new paper was published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
(November, 2024) Xinzhi's first-author preprint is out: Cost efficiency of fMRI studies using resting-state vs task-based functional connectivity. Congrats!
(October, 2024) Plamena presented a poster at the 2024 IADRC Fall Research Symposium titled "The Relationship Between Tau Levels in Functionally Connected Cortical Brain Regions and a Region’s Tau Burden". Great job!
(October, 2024) A new network science review preprint is out: Network Science in Psychology.
(October, 2024) A new social network method preprint is out: The co-varying ties between networks and item responses via latent variables.
(August, 2024) A new paper was published in Medical Image Analysis.
(August, 2024) Dr. Wang presented a poster Sex-specific topological structure associated with dementia identified via latent space network analysis at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.