Xingdong Feng

Xingdong Feng received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2009 and began working at NISS June 1, 2009.

Feng is focusing on the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC), a program run by the National Cancer Institute along with five major research centers across the United States.

The CPTAC program is a five-year, $104 million initiative to build the foundation of technologies, data, reagents and reference materials, analysis systems, and infrastructure needed to systematically advance protein biology for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. NISS' role is to provide statistical expertise and guidance on the project and to develop specific statistical methodology for proteomics research. NISS is also working with the five centers to analyze their combined data from their multi-center studies in order to maximize the information to be gained from these large research efforts in proteomics.

Feng's dissertation is titled "Dimensionality of Data Matrices with Applications to Gene Expression Profiles." He graduated from Nanjing University in China with a B.S. in Mathematics in 1999 and from Renmin University of China with an M.A. in economics in 2002.