Emma Zhang

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Emma Zhang (also known as Emma Jingfei Zhang) is a Chinese-American statistician who studies the math behind complex systems. Her work focuses on networks, tensors, and point processes to understand social networks, gene interactions, and the brain.

She is the Goizueta Foundation Term Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at Emory University, with a secondary appointment in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Education and career:
Emma studied mathematics at Nankai University, graduating in 2009. She earned a PhD in statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2014, with a dissertation titled Statistical Inference on Network Data under the supervision of Yuguo Chen.
She joined the University of Miami as an assistant professor of management science in 2014, was promoted to associate professor in 2020, and in 2022 added a secondary appointment as associate professor of public health sciences at Miller School of Medicine. In 2023 she moved to Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, with a second appointment in the Rollins School of Public Health’s Biostatistics and Bioinformatics department.

Recognition:
Zhang became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2023 and was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2025.